Kitchen Tools

When it comes to cooking chicken, things don’t happen as predictably as most home cook assume. Two chicken breast are cut from the same pack, … Read more

If you’ve baked a sweet potato that looks perfect on the outside but is still rock-hard in the middle, this has probabley happened to you … Read more

Eggs are an ingredient, not just something you toss into a pan: think of them as something to be thermally engineered. If you know how … Read more

To prevent a green halo on hard-boiled yolks, you just need to consider certain physical variables. Factors like physics of your specific stove, size of … Read more

A turkey is just one piece of this holiday puzzle; the beginning is a bird whose appearance hides a complicated heat-transfer situation: Heat needs to … Read more

Roasting potatoes is not a skill. It’s about physics. No matter how many expensive spices you throw in there, your roasties will turn out like … Read more

Perhaps with chicken thighs, it’s all just a matter of time; just get those bad boys into the oven and wait 20ish minutes, right? Uh … Read more

There’s a certain type of panic that comes from having a pot of gumbo on the stove and not knowing whether or not you’ve got … Read more

Kitchen panic can be avoided with proper ingredient management. If you don’t have a big enough pan, and try to cook too many things together, … Read more