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Food and Cooking
21 Easy Ways to Make Your Kitchen Safer
3 Super Easy Tips for a Clean Kitchen
The Secret Shelf Life of Food: What Freshness Labels and Expiration Dates Really Mean
Waste Less Food By Stocking Up!
Farm-Raised Salmon: Is It Safe to Eat?
Infographics and Tools
Infographic: Finished Temps of Baked Goods
Infographic: Sous Vide Time and Temperature Table for Proteins
Save Time, Money and Food With Sous Vide + Vacuum Sealer
How to Choose a Portable Induction Cooktop (And the Best Ones to Buy)
My Favorite French Press (And One I Hated)
Shopping and Online Buying
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Modernist Cuisine, a 5-volume set plus recipe book.When Modernist Cuisine came out in 2011, Michael Ruhlman wrote a mixed review of it for the New York Times. He was daunted by the [...]
Every year, when you get that great bottle of homemade liqueur, fragrant bar soap, or that plate of exquisitely decorated cookies, you think, “I’m gonna do this next year!” And [...]
One of the greatest things about Amazon is also one of its biggest problems: the reviews. Can you trust Amazon reviews? More importantly, can the reviews really help you buy [...]
The right sous vide accessories will enhance your sous vide cooks without adding a great deal more to either your budget or your shelf space. As with anything, you can [...]
The idea of sous vide is appealing, but yeah, we get it: using all that plastic gives you pause. After all, you use cloth shopping bags, you have a stainless [...]
The following sous vide time and temperature tables are adapted from the Modernist Cuisine Kitchen Manual. Here are a few general tips on cooking proteins sous vide: Add seasonings as [...]