How to Clean Stainless Steel Pots and Pans
Everything you need to know to clean up even the most abused stainless steel cookware.Read More
View ArticleA Guide to the Essential Dishes of Laos
The cuisine of Laos is often unassuming, but packed with flavor in a way that showcases the country’s prowess at marrying herbs, chilies, and the pungent bacterial riot of fermented meat and fish. If...
View ArticleThe Best Milk Chocolate for Baking (That Won’t Break the Bank)
Hating on milk chocolate is a trite cliché, especially now that supermarkets stock so much more than the candy-sweet bars of our childhood. These eight milk chocolates can be found in stores or online...
View ArticleLettuce Wraps With Sweet-Spicy Chicken Meatballs Make Dinner Easy AF
Vietnamese-inspired meatballs are so quick, easy, and cheap to throw together that they're one of our go-to meals or midnight snacks.Read More
View ArticleThe Right Way to Eat Chicken Wings Is All the Way
There's only one right way to eat chicken wings: Our resident wing fanatic explains how.Read More
View ArticleSpecial Sauce: Writer and Illustrator Maira Kalman on Room Service and...
The brilliant, food-loving, and thought-provoking artist and writer Maira Kalman talks about her ideal room-service breakfast in bed and her special love for chairs left out on the street.Read More
View ArticleMake and Bake This Chocolate Cake in Your Cast Iron Skillet
You don't even need a mixer to whip up this chocolate cake, just melt the butter in a cast iron skillet, stir in the remaining ingredients, and bake! It's super dark and delicious, topped with a...
View ArticleThe Best Waffle Makers
We rigorously tested the top 12 waffle maker models, including both Belgian-style and American-style irons, to find you the ones that consistently make the best waffles.Read More
View Article21 Memorial Day Salads to Balance Out All That Meat
You're going to need something bright and fresh—or, at least, something cool—to cut through all those smoky meats.Read More
View ArticleArtichokes à la Barigoule: A Simple French Dish With a Twisted History
Artichokes à la barigoule is one of the most famous springtime vegetable dishes from Provence, France. Here we show you how to cook it two ways: one more modern (and ancient) that is simple, light and...
View ArticleGerman Buttercream Is Vanilla Pudding Whipped With Butter. What’s Not to Like?
This old-school frosting combines whipped butter with a thick vanilla custard, which gives it flavor, sweetness, and stability all at the same time. While it tastes like the creamiest vanilla soft...
View ArticleA Brief Guide to Roux
Roux, a pasty mixture of fat and flour cooked together, is responsible for thickening classic sauces like béchamel and velouté, as well as hearty gumbos and étouffées. Here's what you need to know...
View ArticleObsessed: The World's Largest Cookbook Collection
As we thought about who else to add to our own little collection of culinary obsessives, it seemed only fitting to find a collector of some kind, and that's how we stumbled upon Sue Jimenez, a retired...
View ArticleSpecial Sauce: Artist and Author Maira Kalman on Savoring Moments of Cake
Part 2 of the Special Sauce conversation between Ed Levine and Maira Kalman, who are joined by Kalman's co-author Barbara Scott-Goodman.Read More
View ArticleThis Super-Crispy Honey Butter Fried Chicken Is Killer With Waffles
This fried chicken's rugged and scraggy crust is inspired by Popeyes, but the caramelized-honey drizzle and a dusting of chili spice make it unique.Read More
View Article20 Desserts for Your Memorial Day Cookout
After all the grilled meats and potato salad you're bound to consume this Memorial Day, you might not end up with much room in your stomach for dessert. But what's a cookout without something sweet?...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Own Brownie Mix, for...Emergencies
Use your favorite dark chocolate and Dutch cocoa powder for a totally homemade, shelf-stable brownie mix that bakes up more flavorful, rich, and chewy than anything you can buy in stores. Read More
View ArticleThe Best Kitchen Shears
A great pair of kitchen shears should be good at more than just cooking-specific tasks: They should be a great pair of scissors, period. We put a group of 12 shears through a series of challenges,...
View Article16 Crab Recipes We're Shell-Bent On
From classics like Maryland crab cakes and fried soft-shell crab to crab-filled versions of fried rice and guacamole, here are 16 of our favorite recipes that make crab worth the splurge. Read More
View ArticleCan You Identify These Mysterious Macro Images of Food?
"Guess This Pic" is a game we play sometimes here at Serious Eats: A detail of a food photo is blown up and cropped, and everyone in the office tries their best to figure out the subject of the...
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