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This year’s bumper crop looks at salsa, salads, drinking culture, home baking, and Italian cuisine. Continue reading The Best Cookbooks of 2025: Soju Party, Good Things, Salsa Daddy, Linger, and More
These specialty blades—cutlass-shaped mini machetes made for chopping grilled and smoked meats—aren’t a necessary addition to your grill game. But they’re fun, and they get the job done. Continue reading Do You Need a Barbecue Knife?
Certified kitchen knife nerd Scott Heimendinger used a robot arm on multiple chef’s knives to collect 100,000 data points about which blades cut most efficiently. He’s ranked them from best to worst. Continue reading This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best
Certified kitchen knife nerd Scott Heimendinger used a robot arm on multiple chef’s knives to collect 100,000 data points about which blades cut most efficiently. He’s ranked them from best to worst. Continue reading This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best
Sourdough bread is one of the most wonderful things you can make with your hands, but it can be fussy and hard to perfect. Now technology takes out most of the pesky guesswork. Continue reading Tech Up Your Sourdough With These Upper-Crust Baking Gadgets
Monosodium glutamate has a poor reputation in the US, which is both unfortunate and based on misinformation. A spate of new cookbooks highlighting its powers is here to awaken our senses. Continue reading MSG Is (Once Again) Back on the Table
This simple gadget is a fun and inexpensive way to tinker. Continue reading If You Like to Get Nerdy in the Kitchen, Try Roasting a Chicken on a Stick
There are many recipes for the fermented Korean staple—typically made with cabbage, chili powder, and aromatics—but all of them put salt at the center. Continue reading For a Master Class in Salt, Try Making Kimchi
Some eager product designers have replaced the toaster’s familiar buttons, levers, and dials with screens and automated software. The results are rather stale. Continue reading Can Algorithms, a Touchscreen, and an Internet Connection Make the Perfect Piece of Toast?
Using local ingredients like hoja santa, huitlacoche, insects, and a variety of mercurial spirits, bartenders in the Mexican city are testing the boundaries of flavor and presentation. Continue reading More Than Mezcal: A Dive Into Oaxaca’s High-End Cocktail Scene