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Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest)
Prepping a beer cooler for low-temp cooking [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] By this point, there is absolutely no question that the method of cooking foods at precise low-temperatures in vacuum-sealed pouches (commonly referred to as " sous-vide ") has revolutionized fine-dining kitchens around the world. There is not a Michelin-starred chef who would part easily with their Polyscience circulators . But the question of when this technique will trickle down to home users—and it certainly is a question of when , and not if —remains to be answered.Learn Basic Kitchen Techniques from World Famous Chefs - Cooking
Culinary vagabond and author Anthony Bourdain mixed up his No Reservations travel show this week by not traveling anywhere. Instead, he invited his fairly well-known chef friends to demonstrate de-boning chicken, making omelettes, and other kitchen basics. It is world-class food porn.
Knife Skills: How to Sharpen a Knife | Serious Eats
There is nothing more frustrating in the kitchen than a dull knife. Not only does it make prep work a chore and your finished product less attractive, it's also downright dangerous. A dull blade requires more pressure to cut into a food, and can easily slip off of a tough onion skin and into your finger. Ouch.
It slices, it dices, it whips up a batch of summer pesto in no time! Our food processor is one of those multi-tasking kitchen tools that we really don't think we could live without at this point. We recently took a minute to list all the ways we use ours on a regular basis and were quite impressed! How do you use yours? We have to admit, we very very rarely bother to dig out the other attachments and blades for our food processor .
