Product Recs

Our favorite tools and appliances, ingredients, and books, all based on exhaustive reviews and years upon years of professional cooking experience. We do the work so you don't have to.

A Danish Dough Whisk Is the Best Hand Tool for Doughs and Batters

The best tool for mixing bread doughs and other thick batters by hand.

Andrew Janjigian

Breakfast and Brunch

He Likes It! Pillsbury Funfetti Cereal, Reviewed

Jamelle Bouie

The Best Chocolate for Baking

Our go-to milk, dark, and extra-dark chocolate bars for better baked goods at home.

Stella Parks

Condiments and Sauces

The Food Lab's Favorite Hot Sauces

Kenji's favorite fiery condiments on the market.

J. Kenji López-Alt

The Best Valentine's Day Gifts for Cooks and Food Lovers

If you can't offer alone time, this selection of cookware and specialty ingredients will help you survive quarantine with your loving partner.

Ariel Kanter

The Most Popular Kitchen Tools and Equipment in 2020

The year's most shopped-for cookware and kitchen gadgets that Serious Eats recommends.

The Serious Eats Team

Our Favorite Books for Food Lovers, 2020 Edition

Our favorite cookbooks and food-related reading published this year.

The Serious Eats Team

Equipment Reviews

A Danish Dough Whisk Is the Best Hand Tool for Doughs and Batters

The best tool for mixing bread doughs and other thick batters by hand.

Andrew Janjigian

The Best Outdoor Wok Burners for Restaurant-Style Stir Fries

The high-powered solution to Cantonese-style stir-frying at home.

J. Kenji López-Alt

Equipment Reviews

The Best Stainless-Steel Skillets

A kitchen workhorse gets put through its paces.

Daniel Gritzer

Equipment Reviews

The Best Rice Cookers

We tested the top rice cookers on the market to determine which is the best for you.

Sho Spaeth

Taste Tests

Breakfast and Brunch

He Likes It! Pillsbury Funfetti Cereal, Reviewed

Jamelle Bouie

The Best Chocolate for Baking

Our go-to milk, dark, and extra-dark chocolate bars for better baked goods at home.

Stella Parks

Breakfast and Brunch

The 2020 of Cereal: Kellogg’s Apple Jacks Caramel Cereal, Reviewed

Even the smell.

Jamelle Bouie

Breakfast and Brunch

Kellogg's Minecraft Creeper Crunch Cereal, Reviewed

Like eating digital blocks, but less fun.

Jamelle Bouie

Buying Guides

The Best Chocolate for Baking

Our go-to milk, dark, and extra-dark chocolate bars for better baked goods at home.

Stella Parks

The Best Valentine's Day Gifts for Cooks and Food Lovers

If you can't offer alone time, this selection of cookware and specialty ingredients will help you survive quarantine with your loving partner.

Ariel Kanter

The Most Popular Kitchen Tools and Equipment in 2020

The year's most shopped-for cookware and kitchen gadgets that Serious Eats recommends.

The Serious Eats Team

The Best Gifts for Bakers

Surprise, delight, and inspire the pastry wizards in your life.

The Serious Eats Team

Editors' Picks

Condiments and Sauces

The Food Lab's Favorite Hot Sauces

Kenji's favorite fiery condiments on the market.

J. Kenji López-Alt

Our Favorite Books for Food Lovers, 2020 Edition

Our favorite cookbooks and food-related reading published this year.

The Serious Eats Team

The Best Gifts for Bakers

Surprise, delight, and inspire the pastry wizards in your life.

The Serious Eats Team

The Best Gifts for Beginner Cooks

Give them a head start with great tools, equipment, and ingredients.

The Serious Eats Team

Books

Our Favorite Books for Food Lovers, 2020 Edition

Our favorite cookbooks and food-related reading published this year.

The Serious Eats Team

Kenji Wrote a Children’s Book (About Pizza, Of Course)

Every Night is Pizza Night is a new children's book from Kenji Lopez-Alt.

J. Kenji López-Alt

Toni Tipton-Martin's Jubilee Is a Source of Black Joy

Through historical recipes and profiles of Black American chefs, home cooks, cooking school teachers, cookbook authors, and more, Jubilee reconstructs the true narrative of African American culinary history.

Kayla Stewart

Fuchsia Dunlop Is a Master of Sichuan Cooking. This Cookbook Is Proof.

The Chinese-cooking expert's classic gets a worthy makeover.

Daniel Gritzer

Louie Mueller Brisket

$125 from Louie Mueller Barbecue

Best Glass Liquid Measuring Cup Set

Review: The Best Liquid Measuring Cups

$26.10 from Amazon

White Piggy Otoshibuta

Review: 28 Unitaskers That Belong in Your Kitchen

$27.99 from Amazon

Wilton Muffin Pan

27% lower than usual $10.39 from Amazon