• The Best Kitchen Appliances to Buy Cordless

    The Best Kitchen Appliances to Buy Cordless

    Your kitchen should have the right tools. Welcome to A Guide to Gearing Up Your Kitchen, a series where I help you outfit the space with all the small appliances you need (and ditch the ones you don’t). The kitchen is the only indoor space where you get to use power tools to make things…


  • The Best (and Safest) Way to Slice a Bagel

    The Best (and Safest) Way to Slice a Bagel

    There are a couple of mysterious, un-cited claims around the internet that anywhere from 2,000 to 40,000 people in a given year went to the hospital in the U.S. for a bagel-related injury. Whatever number may be real, I have no doubt that some folks cut themselves pretty badly slicing bagels, and that’s because they’re…


  • How to Know It’s Time to Say Goodbye to a Kitchen Appliance

    How to Know It’s Time to Say Goodbye to a Kitchen Appliance

    Your kitchen should have the right tools. Welcome to A Guide to Gearing Up Your Kitchen, a series where I help you outfit the space with all the small appliances you need (and ditch the ones you don’t). Part of being a food writer is writing about things that are popular, because popularity drives clicks…