The Inside Scoop No Images? Click here   The Best Pro Cooking Tools for Your Home Kitchen​ Designed for functionality, precision, and reliability, these tools are standard in commercial kitchens and will revolutionize how you cook at home. Get the full story here.   Commercial French Food Mill If you want to invest in a good food mill, get one that's professional-grade, like this JB Prince food mill. It has three different disk-shaped graters that can chew through all sorts of fruits and vegetables with no trouble at all.   Offset Spatula You'll most often see offset spatulas used for frosting a cake. But they're also perfectly adept at flipping small items in your sauté pan, like scallops or blini. While normal kitchen spatulas are often too large and clumsy to flip these delicate items, an offset spatula gives you control and precision when you need it most. Kitchen Tweezers There are many reasons why cooking tweezers are great to have: Use them to lift a perfect pasta twirl, to fish individual capers out of those skinny jars, or to get a rogue bit of eggshell out of a hot pan.   Coil Whisk This tool, which looks a bit like an oversize milk frother, is ideal for whisking gravy and emulsified pan sauces because the coil lies flat in the pan, while the rounded edges get right into the corners. Cambro Containers We've long recommended Cambro containers for sous vide cooking projects. But when you're working in a restaurant and stocking a lot of many different types of ingredients, Cambro containers, along with their lids, can also come in handy for storage. Stock up on some two-, four-, and eight-quart square ones, plus some larger rectangular ones for sous vide recipes.   Carbon Steel Skillet Carbon steel is much like cast iron in that it gets very hot and stays hot, so it's perfect for searing meats, and, with enough seasoning, it can become nearly nonstick. But carbon steel pans have sloped sides, making them ideal for pulling off that professional toss, and carbon steel is often lighter than cast iron. (Our recommended pan is also 15% off today!) Get the whole story (and read more equipment reviews) right here! The Best Pro Cooking Tools for Your Home Kitchen​ The Best Tools Under $50 for Prep, Cooking, and Baking​       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

Cumin: The Spice That Goes With (Nearly) Everything

What's new on Serious Eats No Images? Click here FEATURES Cumin Nature: All About the Spice That Goes With (Nearly) Everything Cumin has an unmistakable flavor, at once earthy, musky, gamey, and slightly spicy. And for more than 5,000 years, humans have been grinding it, toasting it, and adding it to their food. Here's everything you need to know about buying, storing, and using it. Read Now TECHNIQUES How to Carve a Rack of Lamb (Without Butchering It) An improperly carved rack of lamb will leave some portions with too much meat and others with not enough. Here's how to make sure you divide and conquer evenly. Read Now TECHNIQUES Feed a Crowd With This Thai-Inspired Roast Pork Shoulder Feast This crowd-pleasing meal pairs rich roast pork shoulder with bright Thai flavors. The best part: you can prepare everything long before your dinner guests arrive. Read Now Email Continues After Ad Below THE KITCHEN ESSENTIAL Coil Whisk This tool, which looks a bit like an oversize milk frother, is ideal for whisking gravy and emulsified pan sauces because the coil lies flat in the pan, while the rounded edges get right into the corners. Shop Now FEATURES What Does Food Media Smell Like?: Diversity and the Beard Awards The 2019 James Beard Media Awards, reviewed. Read Now PODCAST Special Sauce: Food Editor Joe Yonan on Finding the Color of His Parachute Joe Yonan, the food editor at the Washington Post, speaks to Ed Levine about his early career and becoming a food journalist. Read 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

Your Next Weeknight Meal Plan (and Weekend Cooking Project!)

What to Cook Next Week No Images? Click here   After a busy day, the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen pulling dinner together. Luckily, we have a wealth of delicious weeknight meals that will have you in and out of the kitchen in one hour or less. Meet our weekly dinner plan: five easy dinners for five busy weeknights, all sent in advance so you can get your shopping done ahead of time. Cook along with us!   Your Week Ahead MONDAY Spring Vegetable Salad With Poached Egg and Crispy Bread Crumbs Spring’s not over yet, which means we’re still loading up on the season’s bright green produce. And this salad of fava beans, peas, asparagus, and broccolini—all topped with a poached egg and buttery bread crumbs—is our favorite way to do just that.   TUESDAY Fried Soft-Shell Crab Sandwiches Don’t be deceived by their simplicity—these fried soft-shell crab sandwiches make a fine Tuesday-night treat. The crabs are coated in a light beer batter, fried, and then served in a toasted bun with lettuce, tomato, and mayo. WEDNESDAY Five-Minute Grilled Chicken Cutlets When you've hardly had time to think about dinner and realize you're hungry, these five-minute chicken cutlets are the meal to make. A quick marinade of rosemary, garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil is all you need to pack flavor into the meat before putting it on the grill.  THURSDAY Cheese-Free Sweet Potato "Quesadillas" These sweet potato quesadillas may not be filled in the most typical way, but they are delicious—and they just happen to be vegan. They're also a cinch to make: Flour tortillas are filled with a simple mixture of mashed roasted sweet potatoes, cilantro, jalapeños, and scallions.  FRIDAY Mini Grilled Gyro Burgers We bet you'll want more than a few of these mini beef and lamb burgers, so plan accordingly. Thanks to their small size, the patties cook in an instant. They're served with a dollop of tzatziki and sliced peperoncini, in toasted buns.     Your Weekend Project Ah, the weekend. Visions of time-consuming kitchen endeavors have been dancing in your head all week long, and finally you have the time to pursue them. But which one to choose? Let us guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Homemade Klondike Bars These DIY Klondike bars are filled with fluffy no-churn ice cream, enveloped in whisper-thin milk chocolate, and wrapped in tinfoil—for nostalgia's sake, of course. So tell us, what wouldn't you do for a homemade Klondike bar?     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232-2017 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