#cookware-dupes

#cookware-dupes

Morrow Soft Goods took cues from the soft hue in their spring collection; shown is the cotton matelasse Devi Coverlet in the Maíz colorway; $265.

One of the biggest mistakes you're making when loading your dishwasher is blocking the upper or lower spray arms from functioning. Tall items can also fall over during the cleaning cycle, preventing water from the lower spray arms or detergent from the door from reaching all of the dishes.

Hall's oats felt like a parfait with a lovely mix of textures. The presentation was nice, too. Drummond's overnight oats were good, but Fuller's impressed me the most and looked amazing.

Apple peels can help you get rid of pesky, stubborn stains on aluminum cookware without you having to break a sweat scrubbing away with an abrasive sponge.

When churning out cover after cover at the saute station you can't exactly be picky about what's on the shelf above the stove. But that doesn't mean professional chefs don't have opinions about the pans they use every day during service.

But once food has carbonized and bonded to metal, the issue is mechanical, and you need something to physically break the residue apart. Eggshells are mostly composed of calcium carbonate, the same mineral found in chalk and limestone - you've probably encountered it in your toothpaste, too. When crushed into a powder, these shells become a mild abrasive, which can gently sand down the grime.

If you've ever mixed something vigorously in a large bowl during a cooking project, you have probably experienced the universal frustration of a tilting, wobbly bowl. Maybe you're whipping cream by hand, whisking a vinaigrette, or even just beating eggs for a casual, but perfect, omelette, and notice the bowl starts migrating across the counter. There are some low-tech workarounds, like a damp towel or a silicone mat slipped underneath the bowl. Neither works terribly well, especially with super-slippery granite countertops.

Cheesy comparisons aside, the reason chefs are responsible for their own knives boils down to subjective preferences and comfort. "I want the knife to be an extension of my arm and my hand," says Fredrik Berselius, executive chef at Aska. Since there are far too many variables that go into a knife's design-handle shape, blade shape, weight, balance, material, and so on- determining which knife is the best knife is fundamentally impossible.

others are more likely to damage your pan and may even shorten its lifespan. It turns out that some of the main complaints you have about cooking with stainless steel might be because of user error, even if you're a seasoned cook. In fact, once you correct what you've been doing wrong with your stainless steel cookware, you might use them just as often or more than your non-stick pans, especially if you're worried about non-stick forever chemicals.