Category: cooking tips

How to Make Coffee: 5 Tips for the Best At-home Brew From a Barista

Odds are, you make coffee at home. You may triumphantly sip on your at-home cup, but when you compare it to what you get from the coffee shop down the street, there’s a noticeable difference. Perhaps you’ve tinkered with different brewing devices or tried a variety of beans, and your coffee still falls flat. The key to…


Get Perfectly Grilled Steak With the Right Temperature

When the warm weather hits, breaking out the grill and making all of your favorite summer dishes is a must. But, executing the perfect steak is not always easy. If you find that you’re constantly overcooking your steaks, follow this one golden rule and you’ll have restaurant-worthy results in no time. Believe it or not, there are…


How Long Does It Take to Grill Hot Dogs?

Hot dogs are a timeless summertime staple served at backyard barbecues and baseball games. While you may already be familiar with the healthiest and unhealthiest hot dogs brands, do you know how long you should cook them? Luckily, we’ve got the answer. By federal standards, hot dogs are already fully cooked. But they should be reheated…


How to Keep Pizza Crust Crispy When Reheating

From the best pizzerias in America to a pie from the frozen aisle of your local grocery store, there’s just something about a steaming hot cheesy piece of pizza. Most people would agree that a slice is best fresh out of the oven, but leftovers are having a moment too, especially with Domino’s new hack for reheating. Say goodbye…


How to Grill With Wooden Skewers

If you’re an aficionado of iconic street foods such as anticuchos, chuan or kebabs, you may want to try making yourself some right at home on the grill. When grilling anything on skewers, however, there is one step you have to take first: soaking your skewers. Much like setting yourself up to make the perfect steak or grill chicken properly,…


How to Render Bacon Fat

One of the best ways of starting your morning is with a bacon-filled breakfast. However, once you get this iconic breakfast food to your desired level of crispiness, it’s common practice to ditch the leftover fat drippings. But doing so is wasting one of the best ingredients no one cooks with anymore but should. Rendering bacon fat means…


How to Cook Meat Perfectly Every Time: Invest in This Kitchen Tool

While there are a lot of great cooking skills and tips we’ve inherited from our parents and grandparents, there are some cooking habits passed on from generation to generation that are less than ideal. For instance, maybe your mom still incorrectly defrosts her sausages on the kitchen counter at room temperature. But there’s another even worse cooking habit you…


How to Separate Eggs

Many savory brunch recipes and dessert recipes call for separating an egg’s yolk from its whites, whether you’re making a hollandaise sauce or an egg-white omelet. When separating an egg, it’s important to do so carefully so that there are no bits of yolk left in the egg whites. Using an egg that’s fresh from the fridge is best,…


5 Common Egg Cooking Mistakes You May Be Making

By Jackie Burrell Bay Area News Group Bay Area–She may not be able to tell you which came first, the chicken or the egg, but food writer Lisa Steele is an expert on everything else poultry related. Her new “Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook” (Harper Horizon, $28) dishes on not just recipes — more than 100…


Homemade Cookie Tip: Freeze Dough for Future Cravings

There is nothing better than warm, melty chocolate chip cookies on any night, but especially as a pick-me-up on a weeknight after a long day working for home or trying to entertain your kids all day. Except maybe homemade cookies without having to make them from scratch. For the ultimate life hack for homemade chocolate chip cookies, a…