With the onslaught of celebrity chefs, reality-TV cooking competitions and a cable network dedicated to everything edible, the popularity of cooking has heated up. Cooking has been transformed from ...

Good food starts with good ingredients and attentive cooking skills. It’s often said that one needs only ingredients, a sharp knife and a flame (or other heat source) to make a meal. But if you’re not ...

We put eight 8-inch chef’s knives through a battery of tricky tasks, both in the lab and at home. Here's how Henckels, Wüsthof, and other top brands measured up. By Paul Hope Ask any chef about the ...

The most important thing in your kitchen is also the simplest. It’s the knife. Increasingly, many foods come prepared for the home cook (frozen chopped onions, say, or diced canned tomatoes) and bless ...

Brunoise cut, which is a fancy word for a nice dice, best practiced with a carrot. First, cut the core off the tip, and get a workable size of three to four inches. When you're cutting, make sure this ...

Jennifer Garner uses the Amazon Basics knife block set, which comes with a range of kitchen knives, steak knives, scissors, and a sharpener ...

Purchasing a quality chef knife is a great first step for a beginner home cook, but the quality of the knife soon won’t matter if it isn’t cared for. Luckily it only requires a few habits and ...

Once the turkey or ham is on the table with loved ones gathered for Thanksgiving or Christmas, there's nothing worse than ...