This is a favorite with the “I’m a fancy cook” crowd. The problem is they never explain what the intended use is. Why do you need a professional chef towel for a kitchen towel? If your goal is to wipe down counters and such, I’d recommend a microfiber towel. They are highly absorbent just like […]
Should You Cook More Grain or Rice Than You Need?
A bit of advice I keep coming across in cooking tips articles is that you should cook more grain or rice than you need, say twice as much, so that you have leftovers. The idea is that if you double your batch of rice, bulgar, quinoa or other grain you’ll have conveniently cooked grains leftover […]
Plastic-Free Products for the Home
Plastic is a toxic scourge on our environment. It is polluting out oceans and poisoning the sea while filling up our landfills. The problem is that we are addicted to it. We absolutely must have the convenience of plastic. I’m shocked about how cavalier we have become even as we learn that we must find […]
Kaffir Lime Leaves: Fresh vs. Dried
Kaffir lime leaves are the leaves from the kaffir lime plant (Citrus hystrix), otherwise known as the makrut or leech lime. The plant produces a small wrinkly lime and aromatic leaves. These leaves are used extensively in Thai, Indonesian, and other South East Asian cooking to give a lemony aroma and taste. See also: What […]
Junk Science Examples in Nutrition: Spotting Bad Nutrition Information
Not a week goes by when someone doesn’t bring up his/her mistrust of science. No area of science has less trust these days than those associated with nutrition and health. And this mistrust is perfectly valid. Nutrition science is a mess. How many times have you asked why information about nutrition is so contradictory and […]
Should You Buy an Instant-Read Digital Meat Thermometer?
I was prompted to write this post because I found about ten too many articles that were positively precious about instant-read cooking thermometers. One of those articles said it was worth it to pay almost a hundred bucks for a Thermapen (ThermoWorks Super-Fast Thermapen Professional Thermocouple Cooking Thermometer) because otherwise, you might overcook a $25 […]