Tools
We put at-home juicers through the BA Test Kitchen gauntlet to find the best.
Joanna Sciarrino
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Diversify your cookout this summer with geeky (but useful) grill gear from France, Japan, Turkey, and beyond
Vacation rental kitchens aren't always up to snuff, so bring along these tools and ingredients to make sure you'll enjoy the best of the local produce
Belle Cushing
Serving cheese is far sexier—not to mention a lot more fun—when you do it the French way. Essayist Sloane Crosley explains.
Sloane Crosley
Light and versatile, the carbon-steel skillet will help you perfect your omelet game (and everything else, too)
Alison Roman
The salad spinner—once a novelty item—has earned its place in the pantheon of essential kitchen gear. Sweetgreen co-founder Nicolas Jammet explains the 180
Nicolas Jammet
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All the tools you need to turn your kitchen into a cookie factory. (Elves not included.)
Chef Tony Maws of Craigie on Main in Cambridge, MA, makes the argument for using an electric knife to carve your Thanksgiving turkey.
Tony Maws
All the tools you need to get those seconds (and thirds) onto your plate
Joanna Sciarrino
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Growlers are more than just dark glass jugs. Here are the coolest we could find, from hand-glazed ceramic to stainless steel, plus essential accessories
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Some kitchen tools don't last. Others are the kind of immortal implements even the Hulk couldn't smash—here's 5 that have our undying love
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Merrells, Birkenstocks, Danskos! We tried on a lot of kitchen clogs to find the best ones
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Being prepared for dinner parties isn't all about the food. These home goods, chosen by Food52's Amanda Hessser, make entertaining a whole lot easier
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Is that 17-piece knife set worth the $$$? What about a Cuisinart? The BA test kitchen looks at which tools should--or shouldn't--cost you a fortune.
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Food stylist Rhoda Boone discusses what's in her professional toolkit, from salts, scissors, and spoons to Evian misters, Q-Tips, and even Windex
To treat your vegetables right, you need the right tools--i.e., these 6 slicing, dicing, scrubbing, peeling, cooking devices
Bon Appétit
From cutting a baguette to slicing juicy tomatoes, this travel-friendly knife gets the job done
Andrew Knowlton
They say all a gardener needs are water, seeds and a little sunshine. We say she also needs tools that are as beautiful as they are useful
Bon Appétit
From sporks to splayds to trongs, here are 13 fascinatingly weird eating utensils that probably won't be on your dinner table anytime soon
Sam Dean
The Microplane grater isn't just for shredding Parmesan. Here's 3 more cool ways to use it
Janet McCracken
Is that 17-piece knife set worth the $$$? What about a Cuisinart? The BA test kitchen looks at which tools should--or shouldn't--cost you a fortune
Bon Appétit
Enough with the reindeer and snowmen! Make baking fun again with these quirky cookie-cutters
Laura Loesch-Quintin
Call it your holiday six-pack
Mary-Frances Heck
Here's why else this is the only kind of cake pan you should be baking with
Alison Roman