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Cooking Techniques

Top Your Yule Log With These Super-Realistic Meringue Mushrooms

How to make meringue mushrooms that look just like the real thing.

How-Tos

Shio Koji: A Fermented Moldy-Rice Marinade That Makes Food Taste Great

A guide to using the best marinade you've never heard of.

Ingredient Guides

We Ate Super-Expensive Wagyu Steaks So You Don’t Have To

We ate way too much rich and fatty beef to deliver this wagyu guide to you.

Cooking Techniques

Dry-Brining Is the Best Way to Brine Meat, Poultry, and More

Answering all your dry-brining questions.

Cooking Techniques

Cookies

Top Your Yule Log With These Super-Realistic Meringue Mushrooms

How to make meringue mushrooms that look just like the real thing.

Cooking Techniques

Dry-Brining Is the Best Way to Brine Meat, Poultry, and More

Answering all your dry-brining questions.

Cooking Techniques

10 Basic Knife Skills for Thanksgiving Day Prep

Brush up on the basics for the big day.

Cooking Techniques

Calm, Cool, Collected: The Only Way to Jelly Roll

The easiest and most effective method for ensuring a jelly roll won't crack or tear.

Ingredient Guides

Steak

We Ate Super-Expensive Wagyu Steaks So You Don’t Have To

We ate way too much rich and fatty beef to deliver this wagyu guide to you.

Ingredient Guides

Get to Know Culantro, the Herb That's More Cilantro-y Than Cilantro

Like cilantro, but turned up to 11.

Pork

Bacon, Pancetta, and More: How to Cook With Cured Pork Products

When (and when not) to use guanciale, bacon, pancetta, and salt pork.

Ingredient Guides

Jasmine, Basmati, Sticky, and Beyond: The Serious Eats Guide to Rice

What it is, where it came from, and a guide to rice varieties you might find in your supermarket.

Equipment

Stovetop

Why You Shouldn't Use Nonstick Cookware (Most of the Time)

A couple nonstick skillets are all you really need.

Kitchen Tips

Hack Your Way to a Bigger Stovetop, No Renovation Required

Maximize your range's cooking capacity with a stovetop griddle.

Chinese

Everything You Can Do With a Wok

You can do just about anything with this versatile cooking vessel.

Equipment

What to Pack for Your Vacation-Rental Kitchen

Because your Airbnb kitchen probably doesn't come with a good chef's knife or quality olive oil.

Kitchen Tips

Kitchen Tips

How to Keep Thanksgiving Gravy Warm (Without Hogging a Burner)

Keep your gravy nice and hot with immersion circulators, slow cookers, and more

Kitchen Tips

Why You Shouldn't Use Nonstick Cookware (Most of the Time)

A couple nonstick skillets are all you really need.

Equipment

Hack Your Way to a Bigger Stovetop, No Renovation Required

Maximize your range's cooking capacity with a stovetop griddle.

Equipment

What to Pack for Your Vacation-Rental Kitchen

Because your Airbnb kitchen probably doesn't come with a good chef's knife or quality olive oil.