Tag: cooking tips

What Can You Substitute for Bread Crumbs?

The time has come to prepare a weeknight dinner for the family and you’ve got your heart set on meatloaf — but you’ve run out of breadcrumbs. Luckily, there are a few alternatives to the pantry staple that you can try if you’re gluten intolerant, on the keto diet, or if you’ve simply run out of the ingredient and don’t…


Steak Grilling Temperature for Every Meat Preference

There’s definitely a science to grilling the perfect steak, and the most important thing is making sure you’re cooking your steak long enough and to the desired temperature. The right cooking temperature is pretty much the same across all cuts of steak, so buy a meat thermometer to check for the right temperature and use…


How to Make Box Cake Mix Better

Whether you’re using it to make cake, pancakes or cupcakes, boxed cake mix is a common pantry staple that requires only a few additional ingredients to make a dessert the whole family will love. But there is a way to transform the taste and texture of cake mix into an impressive dessert: condensed milk. Condensed milk is evaporated…


How to Make Onions Taste Less Strong

Widely used in cuisines throughout the world from South African to soul food, onions are famously pungent thanks to the high amount of sulfur in them. This gives them their characteristic harsh taste and the ability to make a grown man cry while cutting them. Both effects can be reduced, however, using water. Just like submerging…


What Are Pork Steaks?

When you have a hankering for pork and need a quick and easy weeknight dinner, odds are you head to the grocery store and pick up a pack of pork chops or a pork tenderloin. These popular cuts of pork are affordable and cook quickly, making them an easy go-to. But they tend to lack one thing: flavor. That’s…


How to Cook Crab Legs

There’s no way around it — crab legs are a luxurious food. But you don’t need to go to a fancy brunch buffet or high-end seafood restaurant to enjoy this sweet, tender shellfish. You can cook crab legs at home with ease for a romantic evening in. (Or you can cook them just because.) There are…


How to Grill Chicken: When to Add Sauce to Your Poultry

The secret to many of the best grilled chicken recipes is not a spice rub, a brine or a side salad. The key to a great grilled chicken recipe is the sauce. No matter what your preferred regional barbecue style, be it a sweet, spicy vinegar-based or another favorite, you know the importance of the good stuff. But…


How Long to Cook Chicken on the Grill

When you’re looking for a quick, easy and healthy weeknight dinner, chicken on the grill is a pretty solid option. But not all pieces of chicken are created equal. Boneless and bone-in, skinless and skin-on, breast and thigh — each cut of chicken is different and should be treated as such. So how long should you…


Steak Doneness Temperature Guide for Every Preference

There’s definitely a science to grilling the perfect steak. Beyond tempering and seasoning the meat, the No. 1 thing to ensure you have a great steak is to make sure it’s cooked to your preferred level of doneness. For the uninitiated, that level of doneness or “temperature” is the thing you see on steakhouse menus: rare, medium-rare,…


How to Grill Corn

When it comes to grilling, corn is among the most popular things to cook. If you can master grilling ribs or burgers, then you can definitely learn how to grill corn. The easiest way to grill corn is to do so with the husk still on. This will save you time from having to shuck and clean the corn…