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Know Your Custards

A mixture of milk or cream, eggs, and sugar, custard can take many forms, depending on the specifics of each ingredient and how it’s cooked to make the custard set.
Halve Tomatoes and Peppers for Easy Peeling

Cutting and broiling tomatoes and peppers makes it easy to peel them.
Use the Right Strainer for the Job

There are no standards for coarse-, medium-, or fine-mesh sieves, so how do you know which is which?

Test Salad Dressing with a Leaf

Trying to get the right balance in your homemade salad dressing? This is one time you don't want to use your hands.
How to Attach a Thermometer to a Pot

For some recipes you need to monitor water temperature.
A Workhorse Drain Rack that Looks Good, Too

We’ve tried a number of drain racks over the years and this is the first one we’ve really liked.
Two Easy Ways to Squeeze Spinach

When it comes to squeezing excess water from cooked spinach, we've got a couple of tricks.
A Peeler Hulls Strawberries, Too

Vegetable peelers are an effective strawberry huller.
A Mexican Lime Juicer is Perfect for Key Limes

Key limes are too small for most citrus squeezers, so when we need to squeeze a lot of them, we reach for a hand-held Mexican lime juicer for easy juicing.
How to Make a Better Burger

Rather than flattening the burgers with a spatula, which presses out all their lovely juice, try forming your burgers a little differently.