How to Choose the Right Cooking Oil (or Butter)
Cooking without fat is doable, but not fun. Not only does fat equal flavor, it promotes browning, helps seasonings cling, and keeps food from sticking to the pan. There is…
How to Air Fry Without Directions
Despite the remaining air fryer haters out there, this mini convection oven is here to stay. You can air fry steaks, and cheesecakes, but my favorite things to air fry…
Fry Food Without Burning Your Beautiful Hands
Fried food is art, and fish houses, purveyors of fried chicken, and Southern gas stations have it making down to a science. But there is something deeply satisfying about transforming…
Six Fancy Knife Cuts to Make Your Dishes Look a Little More Grown-Up
Being an adult comes with high expectations, like how to cut ingredients with sharp objects and cook for yourself (outside of microwave popcorn). The pressure from that giant knife block…
You’re Frying Your Chicken in the Wrong Oil
Many foods can be fried to excellent results—pickles, potatoes, little nuggets of cheese—but nothing fries quite like chicken. When it’s at its best, fried chicken is hot and juicy on…
How to Prevent Holiday Kitchen Disasters
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) Between spatchcocking birds and air frying cheesecakes this holiday season, I haven’t had much time to think about anything other than putting food inside a hot-maker, and…
Why You Should Be Air-Frying Your Tofu Before Marinating It
Marinated tofu is great, but getting tofu to actually absorb marinades is trickier than it seems. If you want the flavor to get all the way inside, you have to…
How to Drain Greasy Food When You’re Out of Paper Towels
Photo: Dari Poomipat (Shutterstock) Fried foods are comfort foods. But holding onto that just-fried crunch is a precarious dance of wicking off oil and allowing the food to cool on…
Never Cook These Things in Your Air Fryer
Photo: Francisco Zeledon (Shutterstock) To some enthusiastic food bloggers, the air fryer is an intuitive appliance that can cook anything and everything. To certain members of my family, it is…
You Can Deep Fry Outside on the Grill
Photo: Foodio (Shutterstock) I won’t say that deep frying at home isn’t “worth it,” but I will say that it’s downright unpleasant. It stinks. It’s messy. Sticky vaporized cooking oil…