Everyday cooking

Everyday cooking

When the cut onion touches a hot grate, that moisture rapidly turns to steam. That steam helps soften baked-on grease, caramelized sugars, and stuck proteins from meat. This makes residue easier to dislodge.

The best outdoor cookware designers understand the most compelling brief isn't to make it do everything - it's to make it do exactly what's needed, beautifully, with nothing extra.

The kit includes five types of dried chilies: jalapeño, chipotle, habanero, chiles de árbol, and ghost peppers, along with a gourmet spice blend and powdered cayenne pepper.

Grilled cheese sandwiches are unique in that there is absolutely no wrong way to make one, outside of failing to use bread or cheese.

Garlic scapes are flavorful and versatile flowers that possess subtler notes of alliums like onions and garlic. They can be used in many recipes.

Consumer Reports has reams of data over the decades about both consumer satisfaction and the reliability of every big-name cooktop. Its ratings, which it calls 'predicted reliability,' are gathered directly from surveys of customers, reporting repair and breakage rates going back 10 years to 2015.

Propagating herbs is much more cost-effective than purchasing plants from a nursery or garden center. It's also the best method to use to start an eco-friendly, sustainable garden at home.

On a single crumb of cheese rind there are more than 10 billion microbes: that's more microbial cells than there are people on Earth. Cheese rind is an intensified expression of the cheese, with a powerful flavour and highly concentrated community of good bacteria, yeast and mould.

The combination of warmer weather and the impending release of my new book has got me fully focused on sunshine food and Mediterranean flavours, leaning heavily on recipes from Claudia Roden.

The George Foreman Grill features unique slanted plates designed to let fat drain away, leaving you with leaner pork chops, burgers, or bacon.

Using a warped one is among the worst mistakes you can use with a sheet pan: If the nice, flat pan becomes raised in some places, that's exactly where food will cook or bake unevenly.

The Le Creuset Stoneware Mini Fruit Cocotte is a 16-ounce cocotte that comes in blueberry, strawberry, and peach shapes. Each cocotte boasts impressive durability features, like hearty stoneware construction, thermal resistance up to 500 degrees, and a nonporous glaze on the surface for easy cleanup.

Rogen and his wife, Lauren Miller, embarked on a three-and-a-half week trip to Italy, planning the trip around doing things they enjoy, particularly pottery.

Martha Stewart's 'Sizing Down' method encourages flower enthusiasts to open up store-bought bouquets and lay out individual flowers, allowing for a more customized and elevated arrangement.

Gnats, particularly fungus gnats, are skinny with long legs and thrive in moist environments, often hitching rides on overwatered plants or developing in sink drains.