Your Kitchen

If cutting up a chicken is hard, clumsy work, or you find yourself cursing your carrots when you attempt to matchstick them, I have the most likely reason: your knives probably suck. Slicing and dicing should be fun. When you have good knives and you keep them sharp, they are a joy to use. There’s … Read more

How do you feel about your kitchenware? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you love it? If you’re not in love with your cookware, throw it out! If you hate your cookware, that’s good. At least you have feelings about it. Figure out what you hate about it, and use that as … Read more

Don’t try to sharpen your knives by yourself. You’ll ruin them! Send them out to be sharpened by a professional. Box them up and send them out! Oh, really? What are you supposed to cook with while your knives are gone? Turnaround time can be a week. What do you do, order takeout all that … Read more

How do professional chefs make it look so easy? They take a piece of meat and slice through it like butter. They cut an onion into beautiful, slender slices. What do they have that you haven’t got? Sure, they have professional training and years of experience. But if they aren’t using a good knife, they’d … Read more