How to Use an Onigiri Mold
How to make uniform-sized and shaped onigiri? Unless you're a seasoned cook well trained in Japanese cooking, you use an …
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How to Make the Most of a Tabletop Raclette Grill
We love communal eating here at home. We do hot pot, fondue and tabletop grilling although not nearly as often as we'd …
Cheese and Chocolate Fondue for Home Entertaining
Fondue, hotpot and shabu-shabu all refer to a dish that consists of a communal pot at the center of the diners where …
How to Tenderize Meat
The best meat and vegetable stir fries have small pieces of tender meat and lightly crisp vegetables. How does the meat …
Buying a Wok? Make it Carbon Steel.
If you could have only one cooking pan, what would it be? My answer is a wok because it serves a lot of purposes. You …
Color Coded Cutting Boards: Are They A Necessity?
Growing up in Asia, I have always used solid wood blocks as chopping board. Later, I switched to bamboo. Plastic was a …
Making Coffee with a French Press
How do you start your day? What's the first thing you reach for? The newspaper? Toast? Or coffee? I'm a coffee person. …
How To Use a Kitchen Thermometer
An oven thermometer measures oven temperature, a meat thermometer reads the internal temperature of meat, a candy …
The Right Way to Use the Mortar and Pestle
My grandparents had a mortar and pestle. Marble. It was so old that although it must have been white once, it had turned …
Kinds of grill, temperature control and the distance between the food and the heat
Normally, monsoon season should be in full swing by June. Not this year though. It’s mid-June and while we get showers …
Tips and Tricks to Make Your Slow Cooker Churn Out the Tastiest Dishes
I'm late in the slow cooker game. Not for lack of a slow cooker (I've had one for years) but because my first experience …
What is a Kitchen Spider? How is it Used?
I’m not talking about the insect. I don’t like insects in my kitchen, spider or otherwise. I’m talking about the cooking …