When Dinner Becomes a Campfire: Everything I Know About Raclette and Fondue After Twenty Falls
My grandmother owned an avocado-green fondue pot from 1974 that she picked up at a…
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The List My Grandmother Taped Inside Her Cabinet: A Labor Day Buying Guide for Real Kitchens
There is a piece of paper taped inside the cabinet door to the left of…
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Warm Bread on a Tuesday: The Bread Machine Guide I Never Expected to Write
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a kitchen in late August.…
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Five Slow Cookers, Four Sundays, and the Feature I’ll Never Shop Without Again
My sister's slow cooker died on a Tuesday in the middle of July, mid-brisket, with…
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The Humming Box That Saves My August: Four Food Dehydrators, One Garden Glut, and Everything We Learned
By the second week of August, my kitchen counter has usually disappeared. It's under forty…
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The Great Smoothie Summit: Four Blenders, One Blind Taste Test, and a Family Feud Finally Settled
Every August, the same argument breaks out in my kitchen. It starts innocently enough —…
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The Appliance I Mocked for Three Years (And the Dual Basket Air Fryer That Now Runs My Kitchen)
I need to confess something before we go any further. For three years, I mocked…
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Thirty Days, One Frozen Drink Machine, and the August I Stopped Rolling My Eyes
I need to confess something before we go any further. For the entire first half…
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The Great Multi-Cooker Reckoning: What Six Months of Testing Taught Me About the One Machine Worth Your Counter
There comes a moment in every serious home cook's life when you look at your…
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The Appliance I Ridiculed All Spring — Until It Ran My Entire Summer Bar
I spent an entire spring dragging my feet about frozen drink machines. Every time one…
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