Banana Granola: A New Way to Use Overripe Bananas

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Banana Granola This recipe combines everything we love in banana bread—its mellow flavor, gentle spice, and nutty crunch—into a tender yet crisp granola that's loaded with dried fruits, whole grains, crunchy seeds, and macadamia nuts. Even better, it works best with a bunch of ultra-black bananas (whether forgotten on the counter or lost somewhere in the freezer). It's perfect over a bowl of yogurt for breakfast, but it's a bang-up topping for ice cream and banana pudding as well. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Freeze-Dried Bananas If you're feeling fancy, the cooled granola can be spiked with one last layer of fruit flavor: freeze-dried bananas. For those who enjoy a shattering crunch, freeze-dried banana slices can be a lot of fun. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

How to Make 100% Whole Wheat Bread

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread With a little patience and the help of a food processor, it's possible for 100% whole wheat bread to bake up as fluffy, light, and chewy as a classic white loaf, but with all the nuttiness, flavor, and virtue of whole grains. The key is patience and power, with an autolyse to hydrate the flour before kneading in a food processor. This powerful tool makes short work of the dough, allowing for rapid and intensive gluten development in 75 seconds flat. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Food Processor A food processor makes short work of the stiff dough, creating intense gluten development in just 75 seconds. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Everything You Need to Know About Copper Cookware

Should you invest? No Images? Click here   Everything You Need to Know About Copper Cookware Copper pots and pans are a serious investment. Here's what you need to know about their advantages and disadvantages, and how to recognize quality. The Pros and Cons of Copper Cookware We've spent years here at Serious Eats building a compendium of cookware information. But there's one classic material we've written almost nothing about: copper. Here we'll take a look at copper cookware to suss out its strengths and weaknesses, and try to help you decide whether you want to go deeper by investing in some. Our Recommendations Yes, copper pots are expensive. But if you're looking to take the dive, here are two of Daniel's recommended brands. De Buyer Duparquet Copper Cookware   How to Clean and Care for Copper Cookware With the price of copper as high as it is, the last thing you want to do is invest in expensive copper cookware only to mistreat it into disrepair. Treating it right is relatively easy, as long as you know a few key things.  The Maintenance Essentials Bar Keepers Friend If you want your copper pans gleaming like new you'll need to polish them from time to time. We like Bar Keepers Friend as copper polish (and for stainless steel, too). Non-Scratch Scrubbers Avoid using abrasive scrubbers like steel wool—a light hand with Scotch-Brite's non-scratch scrubber is your best bet for scouring away stuck-on bits without damaging your pan's finish.   Behind the Scenes: How Copper Pots Are Made In ancient times, copper was worked by hand with a hammer. Now, there are two modern methods for creating most pan shapes: spinning on a lathe or forming in a press. To learn more, we went to Duparquet Copper Cookware in Rhode Island, where owner Jim Hamann (who also runs a restoration service called East Coast Tinning) showed us how he spins his pans—and even let us try our hand at making our own. Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe