The Serious Eats Guide to Skewers

Skewerious Eats No Images? Click here   The Serious Eats Guide to Skewers There's something about meat on a stick that just screams "summer." So for the month of July, Sasha Marx focused on all things skewer—the best set-ups, the best tools, and the best recipes. How to set up your grill for better skewers, kebabs, and yakitori Even if you've never visited a kebab shop in Istanbul, or been spellbound by the chicken sorcery of a yakitori chef in Tokyo, odds are you've come across a professional skewer-grilling setup at some point in your life. With a few bricks and some aluminum foil, you can build a better skewer-grilling system. Read more → Your recipe book Charcoal-Grilled Al Pastor Skewers With a special grill set-up, you can turn out top-notch al pastor in skewer form. Grilled Turkish-Style Chicken Wings  An improved setup for skewers brings these grilled wings closer to the heat, while a marinade based on Turkish hot pepper paste infuses them with roasted-chili flavor. Thai-Style Grilled Pork Skewers (Moo Ping) Thinly sliced pork shoulder gets marinated, put on a stick, grilled, and brushed with coconut cream. These skewers will have you forget all about sad takeout satay. Grilled Italian-Style Lamb Skewers (Arrosticini Abruzzesi) A special grilling setup recreates the traditional canalina grill used to cook these Italian lamb skewers. The essential equipment The Best Skewers for Grilling Every skewerer needs a good set of skewers with which to do the skewering. If you want consistency, ease of use, and longevity in your pointed sticks, which ones should you buy? Here are are our recommendations, whether you want to go the wood route or are feeling metal.   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

American Buttercream x Ganache = Double-Chocolate Frosting

For your fave choco-holic No Images? Click here American-Style Chocolate Buttercream  This recipe combines the speed and ease of an American buttercream with the richness and intensity of ganache, for a bold yet simple chocolate frosting. The exact color and texture will depend on how long the frosting is whipped; stop short for a dark, dense frosting, or continue whipping until it's airy and relatively pale. In either case, the flavor will depend entirely on the quality of dark chocolate and Dutch cocoa involved, so check out our guides to the best dark-chocolate bars easily found in supermarkets and the best high-fat Dutch cocoa for baking. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Dutch-Process Cocoa Powder Dutch-Process cocoa powder contains more fat and less starch than supermarket brands, for better flavor and richness. Shop Now   More buttercreams for better cakes Vanilla American Buttercream French Buttercream German Buttercream Swiss Meringue Buttercream    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 Fresh Mozzarella From Scratch

For better caprese No Images? Click here Fresh Mozzarella From Scratch  Excellent fresh mozzarella is milky, tender, and mild, with a faint layer of cream beneath the skin that gushes a little when you slice it. In other words, this isn't that stiff, tough ball of vacuum-sealed supermarket mozzarella, and it's definitely not the low-moisture cooking mozzarella that you throw on pizzas or lasagnas. It's mozzarella for savoring on its own, perhaps with a sprinkle of sea salt, or torn up for a simple Caprese salad. You eat this mozzarella when it's still warm, and it never goes into the fridge. Here's how to make it at home. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Instant-Read Thermometer Having an instant-read thermometer is crucial to ensuring that the milk remains within its ideal temperature range throughout the entire process. Shop Now   Ways to use that beautiful, fresh mozz The Best Caprese Salad Korean-Style Fire Chicken (Buldak) With Cheese Grilled Mozzarella-Stuffed Italian Sausage Burgers Crostini With Blistered Cherry Tomatoes, Burrata and Chive Oil   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