With the onslaught of celebrity chefs, reality-TV cooking competitions and a cable network dedicated to everything edible, the popularity of cooking has heated up. Cooking has been transformed from ...

Good food starts with good ingredients and attentive cooking skills. It’s often said that one needs only ingredients, a sharp knife and a flame (or other heat source) to make a meal. But if you’re not ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The most important thing in your kitchen is also the simplest. It’s the knife. Increasingly, many foods come prepared for the home cook (frozen chopped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We put eight 8-inch chef’s knives through a battery of tricky tasks, both in the lab and at home. Here's how Henckels, Wüsthof, ...

Brunoise cut, which is a fancy word for a nice dice, best practiced with a carrot. First, cut the core off the tip, and get a workable size of three to four inches. When you're cutting, make sure this ...

You might have the palate of a Michelin chef and the creativity to reimagine classic dishes. Yet one seemingly minor error with your knife could be the reason you're watching others land positions at ...

Purchasing a quality chef knife is a great first step for a beginner home cook, but the quality of the knife soon won’t matter if it isn’t cared for. Luckily it only requires a few habits and ...