This Gemelli Pizza Oven Is $200 Off Right Now
Image: Gemelli Home This Gemelli Home pizza oven makes a great gift, and it’s on sale right now now for $399.97 (reg. $599.99). The pizza oven has six presets and…
The Easiest, Laziest Way to Build a Fire
If you didn’t grow up camping, you may be surprised to find out that starting a campfire isn’t as easy as it looks in the cartoons. (My daughter recently tried…
Seven Ways to Hide an Old Fireplace
A fireplace can be a charming bit of old-school design in your home, evoking cozy winter evenings and simpler times when we lacked things like central heating. It’s not uncommon…
Stop Looking at the Stupid Little Dial Thermometer on Your Grill
With one big, notable exception, I am a woman of few enemies…But I also hate the stupid dial thermometers you find at the top of so many charcoal and gas…
You Can Clean Your Oven Without Scrubbing a Thing
Photo: brizmaker (Shutterstock) When it comes to cleaning your oven, you have a lot of options, but they all involve major elbow grease, whether you’re using Bar Keepers Friend, a…
Here’s the Math on Whether You Can Save Money Heating Your Home With a Fireplace
Photo: Rasulov (Shutterstock) The first apartment I lived in with my future wife was an old railroad-style place that was heated by an ancient “gas on gas” stove in the…
Don’t Preheat Your Oven Before Cooking Chicken Thighs
Preheating the oven is, for the most part, a scam. Unless you’re baking a recipe that includes some sort of leavening agent, you’re wasting the energy being expended by your…
How to Calibrate Your Oven’s Temperature
Photo: ViktoriiaNovokhatska (Shutterstock) Have you ever followed a recipe to the letter, but when it came time to remove the dish from the oven, you found that it was significantly…
How to Reduce Energy Costs While You’re Cooking
Photo: Africa Studio (Shutterstock) As the cold really settles in, we’ve been talking a lot about ways to conserve energy. We’ve also been talking about how to prepare for the…
The Right Way to Clean Your Fireplace
Photo: glebchik (Shutterstock) Ideally, you would have cleaned your fireplace thoroughly in the spring, after you used it for the final time of the season. But if that didn’t happen—or…