Claire Lower

Claire is the Senior Food Editor for Lifehacker and a noted duck fat enthusiast. She lives in Portland, Oregon with a slightly hostile cat.
  • Pork Floss Is the Superior Pork Garnish

    Pork Floss Is the Superior Pork Garnish

    If you were an “adventurous” eater during the early-to-mid 2000s, you probably got your fill of bacon, or at least grew weary of creative bacon applications. The strips of cured pork were in and on everything, from cocktails to dessert, like a kind of menu SEO, whether it made sense or not. I’m not blaming…


  • The Easiest Way to Make Your Winter Tomato Sauce Taste More Summery

    The Easiest Way to Make Your Winter Tomato Sauce Taste More Summery

    Besides my birthday, tomatoes are my favourite thing about summer. They are sweet. They are tangy. They are juicy. They are the base of my favourite sandwich. One cannot replicate the flavour of an in-season tomato in the dead of winter, but you can make your winter tomato sauces taste a little brighter and a…


  • Three Ways to Make Your Pressure Cooker Dishes More Flavourful

    Three Ways to Make Your Pressure Cooker Dishes More Flavourful

    As you have probably heard, Instant Pot — or the company that owns Instant Pot, rather — has declared bankruptcy amid declining sales. I don’t have a head for business, but my gut reaction is that sales are declining because everyone who wants an Instant Pot already has one, and some of those people have…