Techniques

Need a remedial class in cooking with butternut squash? This is the guide for you.

These three steps will ensure your press-in crust has a sound structure and a clean look to impress.

Achieve takeout-level stir-fry at home by avoiding these common mistakes.

These speedy candied nuts require no oven, no egg white, and take just five minutes to make.

Consider the days of food sticking to—and burning on—your stainless steel pots and pans over.

Corn isn't the only thing you can pop. Here's how to get it poppin' (sorry) with quinoa, sorghum, and more.

Your breakfast salad called. It wants to get up close-and-personal with granola.

Here's why you should never use a baking sheet to make roast chicken.

Forget what you thought you knew about food prep: You don't HAVE to peel your vegetables (well, most of them, anyway).

Roasting a bird is just half the battle. Learn how to carve a chicken with Dai Due's Jesse Griffiths.

Muesli and granola are both healthy breakfast option made with oats, but they're not the same! Here's a breakdown of what makes them unique—and how to make them at home.

Take care of your kitchen's most important tools, and they'll serve you well. Now's the time to brush up on knife care and safety, by avoiding these common mistakes.

You know what never goes out of style? Chocolate mousse.

Consider accidentally blackened bottoms on your roasted vegetables a thing of the past.

It's fast, it's comforting, and it's a great breakfast—all hail miso soup!

There's nothing more disappointing than a sub-par breaded and fried cutlet. Don't make these common mistakes when dredging, breading, and frying at home.

Forget dry salmon. Nobody needs that.

Pre-roasting apples and stone fruits before putting them into pies, cobblers, cakes, or crumbles is an easy way to add flavor and reduce the sog factor in your fruit desserts.

When can you have cookies for breakfast? When they're packed with oats and held together with bacon fat. Duh.

Cutting veg on a hard diagonal makes them easier to eat—plus, it just looks cool.

All you need to perfectly hasselback vegetables are a sharp knife, a steady hand, and this technique.

Perfect wedges of citrus every time, no pith allowed.

Make the awesomest pan-fried potatoes.

Learn to score your fish properly and cash in on even more crispy bits.

Different herbs require different chopping techniques. Here's how to master three of them.

Milky espresso + your hot oatmeal. Goooood morning!

Flatten, stack, slice. Done!

A good cake doughnut is chewy, tender, crackly—and entirely possible to make at home.

In the market for a chef's knife but don't know where to start? Let these pro tips guide you.

We're suckers for a good knife collection—but you can get any kitchen job done with these three.