Knowing Your Ingredients In the way back machine, it seems like there were two kinds of households in America. Those who used Betty Crocker cookbooks in their iconic red check binder, and those who used The Joy of Cooking in the blue cover with stripes. Both had certain strengths, but Joy in particular offered a ‘Know Your Ingredients' section. What is a cook to do if … [Read more...]
Best Way To Remove Veggie & Fruit Skins
Preparing food in the kitchen often requires removing the skin from fruit and vegetables that you make for your kids and your family. Here are some simple tips that are for removing skins much faster than the methods you already know about. Fruit Skins While most adults will love biting into a nice juicy apple or peach, most kids will turn their noses up at eating these … [Read more...]
Slicing Cheese 101
You've heard there's more than one way to skin a cat, but how many people really know these types of skills anymore? Slicing cheese may sound like a task that is going to be harder than it happens to be, but we've got great tips and tricks for you. Who Cut The Cheese? Laugh all you want, but when it comes down to preparing sliced cheese that comes in a block is a matter of … [Read more...]
Fellow Kettles [Who Are They] Should You Buy One?
Who Is Fellow? Tea kettles are pretty hot on the market these days with a younger face added to this growing trend to home brewing with coffee and tea. This article will introduce you to how you can make tea with the newest kid of the block- Fellow Tea Kettles. For those of you who don't know, Fellow was founded by Jake Miller as a result of a Kickstarter campaign in … [Read more...]
Buying the Right Steak for Grilling & Cooking
The summer sun and the smell of steak being grilled, it doesn’t get much better. Using flame from gas, charcoal or mesquite, makes no difference because you first have to pick a steak that will meet your profile for a tasty pieces of beef. The beauty of it is that even your chain grocer offers a wider variety of cuts than in the years past. We’ll explore what the differences … [Read more...]
Best Measuring Cups & Spoons: 100 Measuring Tools Tested
TEST KITCHEN - Over 100 Cups and Spoons Tested - Here's the Results. Every recipe starts off the same way: a list of ingredients and measurements. Since the publication of Fannie Farmer’s seminal The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book in 1896, recipe writers have called for standardized measurements, and the world of cooking is better for it. Imagine how difficult baking … [Read more...]
Ways to Tenderize Meat
As meat prices continue to rise, it is valuable to know how to use what in the past were called utility cuts. Which is a nice way to say if you don’t handle them properly you will be chewing them for a couple days. But when you do use the right process they will give you some of the best tasting meat you can cook up for friends and family. For that reason some utility cuts from … [Read more...]
Making Omelettes: American, French & Japanese
The name omelet hit the west somewhere around 500 years ago in France. The dish however has likely been around as long as humans have been scavenging eggs, and had a round shaped area to heat and cook them in. That being said, the French did formalize the omelet in the west. Many Asian cultures have been making them as well, possibly the most well-known being the tamagoyaki … [Read more...]