Ingredient substitution guide
The Kitchn has a useful Quick Guide to Ingredient Substitutions for last-minute kitchen replacements or "if you're trying to modify a recipe out of dietary necessity (shifting it to be dairy or gluten-free, for…
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Are these inventions awesome or ridiculous?
BuzzFeed has a fun article called "20 Odd Inventions That Might be Awesome." Not all of them concern food, (though food does seem to bring out the most creativity) but they're all amusing and do pose the question, "Do…
Opening a stubborn jar - and keeping it open
At America's Test Kitchen Feed they have a quick video with three different approaches on how to open a stubborn jar lid: Improve your grip by using a piece of plastic wrap, a rubber band, or wear a rubber glove Tapping…
The coolest way ever to separate an egg
Grub Street found a great video on how to separate an egg. The video is in Chinese but it doesn't matter -- it's perfectly clear from the images what the woman is doing. Indeed, it adds a whole new layer of context to…
Ignore the temperature dial on your oven
In Brian Palmer's Slate article, "Ignore Your Oven Dial: You can't control the temperature of your oven very well, so stop worrying about it," Palmer gives a brief history of oven temperatures leading to the conclusion…
How to tell if your knife is sharp - and how to sharpen it, if it isn't
The knife is, hands down, the most important tool in the kitchen (well, besides the cook, of course). And new knife technology seems to arrive frequently, whether it's Ginsu or Santoku knives from Japan, or new styles…
Telling a host he's about to poison you
We're not sure that Ms. Manners ever dealt with the thorny etiquette question that Chow recently posed: Should You Tell Your Host That He's About to Poison You? Chow frames the question as follows: "Here's the…
5 things that are just plain wrong to do with food
John Cheese over at Cracked has an interesting article, "5 Simple Things that Every Bad Cook Does Wrong." While a bit irreverent in tone (my old-fashioned mother would have called his language "colorful"), he does drive…
3 coffee tips plus how to clean a burr grinder
It's Monday, the Olympics are over, and it's time for (some of) us to get back to work. So we thought these coffee-related tips would be helpful. The first three are from the America's Test Kitchen Feed and concern…
Bottled tartar sauce taste test
We always enjoy Serious Eats' taste tests and find them to be a great guide. As they point out in their Taste Test: Bottled Tartar Sauce, tartar sauce has both fans and serious haters: "There's no such thing as tartar…
Con-artist cooking
Janice Harper over at Huff Post Food has a really fun article for people who don't like to cook - and, frankly, even for those of us who love to cook but just may not be up to the task at the moment. In her piece,…
Join us in these 3 uproarious food moments
Thanks to the SALT, we've been given a chance to view "Three Ways Lucille Ball Ruled When She Played With Food." If you haven't ever seen the wine-crushing brawl, the chocolate wrapping assembly line or - probably one…