Here's How To Tell If A Lobster Is Actually Fresh
There's really no bad way to eat a lobster. There is a way to ruin a lobster meal, though: use lobster that's not fresh.
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Here's How You Can Make Burger King Onion Rings At Home
There's a lot to love about onion rings at Burger King, and there's a good chance it's the side you get with your burger. In fact, they might even be on top of your burger too. Fortunately for mega-fans, you can make them at home pretty easily. -
This Is The Proper Way To Render Duck Fat
If rendering your own fat seems like more trouble than it's worth, you've definitely never cooked with duck fat. This silky fat adds a rich, savory flavor to anything cooked in it. All you'll need is some duck. -
Here's An Easy Way To Vacuum Seal Your Food
Sometimes you might think it could actually be worth buying a vacuum sealer. However, it's entirely possible that it really isn't a necessity for you if you wouldn't use it often enough. Thankfully, you can avoid buying yet another kitchen appliance with a simple trick. -
This Is Ina Garten's Ingenious Trick For Cutting Cauliflower
Cauliflower was the vegetable of the moment for a long time, and it's still a really popular pick for many. But, if you struggled to work with a whole head of the veggie in the kitchen, you were not alone. The Barefoot Contessa has all of the solutions though. -
If You Aren't Grilling Your Pizza, You're Doing It Wrong
Other than "I love you," the three words that give us the most stomach-butterflies are "grill your pizza." -
You'll Get Plumper Hot Dogs From The Grill With This Secret Trick
On those hot, sunny days, when all you want to do is sink your teeth into a perfectly grilled, mustard-topped hot dog, you know just what to do to make those dogs fat and juicy. Wait, what? There's a trick to making hot dogs plumper? Yes! -
How To Hack Aldi's 'Red Bag Chicken' Into A Whataburger Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit
If there are two things the internet loves, it's recreating fast food menu items at home and using products from discount grocery chain Aldi. This trick from Reddit is the best of both worlds, showing us all how to replicate Whataburger's Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit using an Aldi fan favorite. -
Here's How To Order A WAP Latte At Starbucks
If Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP' is your new favorite empowerment anthem, then you'll want to get in on the Starbucks' WAP latte action. -
The Starbucks Secret Menu Pumpkin Pie Frappuccino Changes Everything
Pumpkin spice latte season has arrived, and that's good enough for plenty of people. However, with pumpkin spice season comes a slew of other secret menu drinks that you can order from your favorite coffee chain. Here's another amazing one to try. -
Gordon Ramsay's Pizza Recipe Has An Unusual Ingredient
We like to think Gordon Ramsay came up with this, unusual pizza variation after wandering through the farmer's market. -
The Truth About Ice Box Cake
In the hands of a dessert master, the icebox cake becomes a form of self-expression. The heart of the icebox cake is a recipe that is still provided on the yellow Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers package. -
The Real Reason It's So Important To Let Meat Rest
Before you get ready to dive into your steak, remember the adage about good things coming to all those who wait. Those good things include added juiciness. -
Martha Stewart's Unusual Kale Hack Changes Everything
Lifestyle guru and kitchen queen Martha Stewart built her empire on dishing out seriously good advice. More recently, Stewart has taken to the social media video platform TikTok. One video features Stewart de-ribbing a leaf of kale so fast it's like magic! -
The Surprising Ingredient Your Barbecue Sauce Needs
What makes a good barbecue sauce? It's quite the loaded question depending on who you ask, and be prepared for the answer because everyone has an opinion. Regardless of which ingredients get the saliva going, there's always a way to kick the flavor up a notch with this surprising ingredient. -
The Strange Method For Freezing Bananas You Need To Try
There are plenty of ways to freeze bananas, and one stands head and shoulders above the rest. -
The Pro Chef's Technique For Dicing Onions
Of all the things you want to know how to do well in the kitchen, dicing an onion might be the most important. If you've ever found yourself hacking away at a scraggly-looking bulb, producing unevenly shaped pieces that you can barely see through your weepy onion tears, you know what we mean. -
The Scientific Reason You Should Add Salt To Your Tomatoes
Your body doesn't produce salt but without it, you wouldn't survive. -
Here's The Proper Way To Scale And Clean Fresh Fish
As the old saying goes, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Still, the proverb didn't take into account the prep work that needs to happen if you don't want to go hungry. -
This Is The Absolute Best Way To Cook Asparagus
Some vegetables are so easy to cook no matter what method you approach them, but asparagus is not quite so simple to prepare. Asparagus can be tough, woody, and even stringy if it isn't prepared and cooked right. -
You Should Never Put Tomatoes In Guacamole. Here's Why
When it comes to making the perfect guacamole, less is more, or so says blogger Sydney Kramer of The Crepes of Wrath, a member of "Martha's Circle." Kramer reveals while she has no problem with tomato — she doesn't feel they fulfill any meaningful function in the avocado-y treat, except as a filler. -
Here's The Secret To Making Waffle House Hash Browns At Home
There's something special that happens inside the questionably clean Waffle House kitchens. Whether it's the grease from the last order or just the technique, the chain's hash browns are undeniably better than any you can make. There's a way to replicate these greasy potatoes in your kitchen. -
The Secret Ingredient In Disney's Mac And Cheese Is A Total Game-Changer
Disney's Mac & Cheese recipe is a game-changer (via Disney Parks Blog). Just ask Instagram reviewers. -
The Biggest Mistakes Everyone Makes When Baking A Soufflé - Exclusive
In an exclusive interview with Mashed, Michelin Chef Daniel Kleinhandler explained the biggest mistakes a novice baker should avoid to pull a perfect chocolate soufflé out of the oven." It turns out it's really not as hard as it looks. -
The One Thing You Should Always Add To Your Homemade Lemonade
While drink mixes can have ingredients you might not want in your lemonade, stirring up a pitcher yourself means you can control exactly what goes into it. -
Here's How To Tell If Your Garlic Has Gone Bad
While we'd never get caught dead without garlic, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and the last thing we'd want to do is to buy garlic only to waste it because we haven't used it before it went bad. how can you tell when this has happened? -
Why You Should Think Twice Before Making Pork Chops On The Grill
Thinking about grilling pork chops? You may want to think again. It turns out if you're grilling, you might be drying out your chop and depriving yourself of that perfect golden crust you get on a well-cooked pork chop.
