Few things are more frustrating than chasing a tiny bit of eggshell around a bowl of cracked eggs, trying to trap it and get it out. Save yourself the headache! The perfect tool for nabbing that errant shell is right at hand in every kitchen.
Author: Emma Christensen
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No Stress! How to Get the Eggshell Out of a Cracked Egg
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What’s the Deal with “00” Flour?
Also called doppio zero flour, this ingredient is sometimes listed in Italian recipes like pizza dough and pasta. It can be pretty difficult to track down, and then hard on the wallet when you do. What is it, and is it really necessary for authentic Italian cooking?
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Beer Review: Leinenkugel 1888 Bock Seasonal Beer Sessions
We’re pretty sure these dark bock beers are specifically designed to get us over this last frigid hump of winter. The style tends to be heavy on the malts, robust in flavor, and have just enough alcohol to warm us up. With the stormy weather keeping us inside this past weekend, we decided to give Leinenkugel’s seasonal bock a try!
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Cozy Indoors: 5 Cooking Projects for Snow Days
Along with many of you, we stayed inside most of this past weekend watching the snow fall past our windows. As usually happens on such occasions, we eventually found ourselves in the kitchen flipping through cookbooks. Snow days are perfect for attempting a new recipe!
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Kitchen Mysteries: What Makes Puff Pastry Puff?
Puff pastry starts off looking like plain old pie dough, but then somehow, magically, it transforms into crispy clouds of pastry in the oven. But there’s no yeast, baking soda, or baking powder in puff pastry, so what makes it ascend to these heights of puffy glory?
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Sugar High Strategy: How Do You Eat a Cupcake?
Cupcakes and how you eat them is a very serious business, of course. There are many factors to consider. Like how to take a whole bite without getting frosting on one’s nose. Or the best method to minimize crumbling. What’s your approach?
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How To Roast a Chicken Home Hacks
Roasting a chicken doesn’t have to be a special weekend affair. A small chicken really only takes about an hour to cook, so we can easily make it for weeknight meals, too! Put it in the oven when you get home from work and let it cook while you wind down from the day. It’s that simple.
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Stylish or Tacky? The Fruit Slide
This hanging fruit basket has been making the rounds on the interwebs, and we’re feeling strangely mesmerized by the design. It definitely walks the line between modern style and possible tackiness. What do you think?
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Midwinter Craving: Smoky and Succulent BBQ Pulled Pork
Pulled pork is definitely a summer picnic kind of dish, but lately we’ve been craving it like mad. And it seems we’re not alone! We’ve spotted several pulled pork recipes in the past few weeks that we can make while staying cozy indoors. Which one should we make this weekend?
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How To Make Homemade Chicken Stock Home Hacks
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: making your own chicken stock is a snap. You don’t need to fret about exact quantities of vegetables or hoarding chicken bones in your freezer. You can make stock as soon as you finish roasting a bird using whatever vegetables are in your fridge. No matter what, it’s guaranteed to beat anything you buy at the store!
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Tempered Chocolate? Mark Bittman Knows an Easy Way
So delicious in…well…almost any form, chocolate is notoriously fickle when it comes to melting it down for dipping, coating, or other candy making. Mess up the temperature and it can go from silky to chalky mess in the blink of an eye. Mark Bittman thinks he knows an easy way, but we’re not entirely convinced. See for yourselves!
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Surprisingly Handy Tool: A Pastry Brush
When we mentioned using our pastry brush to clean our coffee grinder, we called it a “rarely-used” kitchen tool. But the more we thought about it, the more we realize how often this little paintbrush comes in handy!
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Whipped Cream: The Secret to Beautiful Cakes?
This whipped cream won’t be going on top of the cake. No, it’s destined to go inside! This unusual technique calls for folding whipped cream into the cake batter, and the result? The most luscious, velvety cake you’ve ever eaten. No kidding.
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Strong and Sturdy: What Makes Cast Iron So Great?
We pretty much answered our own question there! Yes, cast iron pans, skillets, and dutch ovens are super strong and sturdy. There’s not a lot you can do to truly damage one permanently, as evidenced by the fact that many of us are using skillets inherited from grandparents. But the reasons don’t stop there!
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No-Knead Bread Recipe: Multi-Grain Peasant Bread
Whole wheat breads are an acquired taste, in our opinion. Some people love them, some people learn to love them, and some people (like us) never quite warm up to their bitter, earthy flavors. Enter this new recipe. If you’ve never really liked whole grain breads but wish you did, you’ve got to give this recipe a try!
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Less Messy: Two Steps to Clean the Coffee Grinder
We’ll be honest – most mornings, we just give the coffee grinder a quick swipe with a damp sponge after whizzing our beans. But this does leave behind powdery grinds that build up in the nooks and crannies over time. So we’ve called in another handy kitchen tool to help us get the whole job done! -
Yay or Nay: Do You Have to Stir Risotto?
Risotto is one of those foods that we just can’t live without. It’s creamy and comforting, and it works as a vehicle for just about anything we want to put in it. Tet we don’t make it very often at home because of the laborious way it’s made: one cup of broth added at a time. We have to wonder if all that work is really necessary!
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Beer Reviews: Marin Brewing White Knuckle Double IPA Beer Sessions
We’ve heard about Marin Brewing Company and read several mouth-watering reviews of their beer, but we haven’t been able to lay our hands on a bottle where we live. This bottle was smuggled to us in a friend’s luggage, and boy oh boy, were we excited to finally get a taste!
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Kitchen Tech: 6 Reasons to be Excited for the iPad
We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Apple’s new iPad and tablet computers in general this past week. A tablet like the iPad would combine a lot of functions that we currently do over several different devices (including paper) and then some! We’re starting to edge into the “like” category. What about you?
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Food Science: Why Are Hard-Boiled Eggs So Hard to Peel?
There are a million and one tips out there for how to make a hard-boiled egg easier to peel, but far fewer on why eggs are so hard to peel in the first place. Let’s take a look, shall we?