Kitchen and Cooking
CategoryThe Best Instant Pot: Fagor Lux Multi-Cooker
Turns out the best Instant Pot isn’t made by Instant Pot — it’s the Fagor Lux Multi-Cooker. The Instant Pot is basically an electric pres..
The Best Pepper Mills: Unicorn Magnum
For years, Peugeot Pepper Mills were the Rolls Royce of pepper mills. Their classic wood forms and fine-tuned gears surpassed all others. ..
The Best Blender: Nutri Ninja Auto IQ
If you’ve got $500 to spend on a blender, by all means get a Vitamix. They’re sturdy, powerful, quiet, and made in the USA. I lost mine in..
Best Microwave Accessory
If you use a microwave oven, you should have a Tovolo Collapsable Microwave Cover. Microwaves heat food by vibrating its water molecules t..
The Best Colander: RSVP Pireced Stainless Steel
My stepfather introduced me to orzo — a tiny rice-sized pasta shape. But unlike rice, which absorbs all of the water it cooks in, orzo ..
The Best Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables
Buying organic produce may obviate the need to wash pesticides off your produce, but the recent deadly Listeria outbreak attributed to p..
How to Use a Sharpening Steel for the Sharpest Knives
I've been a houseguest quite a bit this summer, and have spent a lot of time cooking in other people's kitchens. Frankly, I'm s..
The Best Kitchen Knives: Henckels Twin Cuisine. Final Clearance
Although I use the awesome Kyocera ceramic serrated slicing knife for bread and tomatoes, I cut everything else with one of three Henckel..
The Best Kitchen or Postal Scale: Oxo Good Grips Stainless Food Scale
As an award-winning* baker with a degree in Biology, I'm particularly keen on accurate measuerments and weights. While much of cooking ..
The Best Modernist Cookbook: Modernist Cuisine
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking sets a new paradigm for cookbook encyclopedias. With stunning photography and throughl..