Baking can bring fun to your kitchen evoking times past. You can quickly fill your kitchen with succulent aromas and fill your home’s residents with anticipation. You want the taste to match the smell and anticipation though. While your recipe contributes largely to the success of your pie or cobbler, your pie or cobbler pan …
Whether you call it a griddle, skillet, saute pan, or fry pan, there are numerous types, and they’re all fascinating. They come in sizes from just big enough to fry an egg to large enough to cook for an army. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but I, personally, loved my grandmother’s very large cast-iron skillet. I …
Whether you love the creativity of baking and decorating a cake, making something as beautiful as it is delicious, or you just love dessert, cakes are universally appealing. The elegant debutante of the dessert world, cakes usually take center stage on the refreshment tables at important events, tempting bakers of all experience levels to try …
When buying new bakeware, cooks and kitchen casuals alike have a series of important demands: It needs to be reliable and long-lasting – no one wants their bakeware to crack or chip because it got too hot or you set it down a little too hard. It needs to be as affordable as possible, because …
Coming up with a good joke is like baking a cake. I can’t do either. All kidding aside, baking is both serious business and relaxing past-time. My mother-in-law cranks out cakes, breads and cookies as if it’s nothing. Every time we go to her house, there’s myriads of freshly-baked goods around. Since I’m no baker, …
What’s the ideal number of small cooking appliances to have in your kitchen? Why, it’s n+1, where n is the number of these little gems that you already own. So if you don’t have any, it’s time to get started. And if your countertops already sparkle and hum with an assortment of useful cookery devices, …
Whatcha gonna do with all that food in your fridge? Eat it obviously, but much of it needs to be cooked. While microwaves are convenient, it doesn’t always produce the best texture and taste. While we live in a society of convenience, better meals are prepared the old fashioned way – on the stove and/or …
Stainless steel can make for some wonderful cookware for several reasons. First, it resists corrosion. In fact, this is one of the most notable benefits of using stainless steel cookware. Second, it’s mostly non-stick. Third, it does a great job retaining the taste of your food. Finally, stainless steel is pretty easy to maintain and …
A Dutch oven is simply a covered deep cooking pot that’s neither Dutch nor a type of oven. It’s usually made of pure clay or cast iron and enamel. It can be used on the stovetop and in the oven and can hold between three and six quarts. You can use a Dutch oven from baking …
Quicklist: Kitchen Pot Racks Standing Hanging Wall-Mounted Under Counter Pegboard Rack Steel Cast Iron Plastic Aluminum Copper Wood Lighted Shelving Expandable Mini Grid Stationary Hooks Tiered Vintage Reclaimed Wood Oval Half Circle Straight Bar Round Square Rectangular Installing a pot rack in the kitchen is a smart way to add more space and keep things …
Welcome to our gallery featuring kitchens with one of the best accessories: pot racks! Pot racks are one of my favorite features in a kitchen, they’re charming, attractive, and a great way to store those pesky pots and pans that are hard to put in cupboards. If you have a nice set of cookware (copper is …
Pottery discovered in Japan revealed that hunter-gatherers made the first cooking pot 15,000 years ago to cook up some fish soup, most likely salmon. In 1642, the first cast iron pot was manufactured in the U.S. The first tin pot came around in 1720, followed by the first enameled porcelain pot and cast aluminum …