I've seen more complicated recopies ( How to cook Tapioca Pearls for Bubble Tea: that have scared me off because I rarely kno...

I think the three most important cooking tools are a chief's knife, a pepper mill, and a garlic press. The Victorinox 8-Inch Chef's Knife, Zyliss Susi 2 Garlic Press, and the Unicorn ...

I've heard that the method of cooking bagels has its origins in a tax on ovens. By making it more expensive to have ovens, people wanted fewer of them. Because boiling decreases the amount of time ...

You can also put ginger in a garlic press instead of mincing it.

Is it still solid when cold like regular butter? I tried to do this the other day, and while it looked somewhat like this when I was finished, it looks just like butter in my fridge, and I wo...

The fact that something is processed is not an argument against it. You need to show that the processing does something to the food that makes it bad for you. Perhaps, given the evidence you all ha...

My Arab-American officemate says it is pronounced like freak, as in "what a freak".

If you use canned beans, it helps to discard the cooking liquid that they are canned in.

I learned an entirely different distinction, that a stock was made from bones and was gelatinous while broth was made from meat and was not.

Love a pair.

I'd love one. I learned about these knives in an article in Wired and there is also a making of video floating around. Expensive but a premium product.

Shmatz fried onions are amazing as are home fries. It also makes a great fat for roasting root vegetables.

Alton Brown sometimes uses a small amount of corn syrup as a way of interrupting the crystallization process in goods with a lot of sugar. Might be worth a shot after you remelt it with a bit of ex...

At Aquavit in NYC I once had a disgusting dessert of blue cheese and lemon grass ice cream.

This seems better for determining when dough has doubled in size (e.g. 2 cups becomes 4) than for measuring volumes, because, as Eliah said, flour should be weighed.

Alton brown recommends melting tempered chocolate using a metal bowl set over a heating pad. By heating it enough to soften it but not ruin the crystals, you can skip the tempering process. ...

If you are like my family and have too many groceries to go shopping with canvas bags, do what we do and reuse your plastic shopping bags as bags to hold your lunch. Usually the bags have little ho...

You try boiling the water first? That gets rid of the dissolved gases and makes regular ice cubes clear. Might be worth a shot.

What's the deal with the folksy introductions to each issue? How did you come up with that? How do you pick what gets covered in an issue? Your pieces suggest you live in ...

Any recommendations for a regular toaster? My current one is giving out. All I need is the ability to toast two slice of bread or a bagel evenly and reliably.