Is your kitchen so small that when you serve tapas, people think it’s a full meal? Is it so tiny that when you give folks the tour, you have them stand in place and spin around? Is it so miniature that you wouldn’t even be able to fit this intro inside your paltry cabinets? Then
Delivery options: Two or four weeks Best for Blind Taste Testing Out of all the coffee subscriptions we’ve tried, Angel’s Cup has my favorite twist: blind taste testing. Every time a coffee arrives, it’s in an unmarked black bag. After you’ve decided whether you like a coffee or not, you can look it up in
A few years ago while visiting my friend, I eagerly watched him go through the entire routine of making pour-over coffee in a Chemex. He weighed and ground the beans, then placed the grounds in the filter and “bloomed” them, adding just a few tablespoons of hot water to extract CO2 and reduce some bitterness.
My friend Hamid and I have a pie-in-the-sky idea that I like to think about when I’m not worried about the world falling apart. Hamid is Hamid Salimian, an Iranian-born Canadian chef who ran the kitchen at Vancouver’s prestigious Diva at the Met restaurant. He’s also a founder of Popina Group (a sort of chef
The Food Network’s cooking app gets hyped as “The Peloton of Food,” like it’s being pitched to a venture capital firm. Dubbed the Food Network Kitchen, the app is available on iOS, Android, and Amazon devices, and it offers a growing host of content featuring scads of Food Network stars who are so famous, that
In the spring of last year, while strolling the miles of aisles at my favorite kitchen trade show (remember trade shows?), I came across an appliance that looked like the child of an electric kettle and an old-school frappe machine. This was the Philips Soup Maker, and there was a practicality to it that struck
As we all collectively panic about Covid-19 (the disease caused by the novel coronavirus), dehydrated meals are selling out in stores and online. As a reviewer on WIRED’s Gear team, I’ve eaten a metric ton of dehydrated food on camping, hiking, climbing, backpacking, and occasionally paddling trips. They’re great for drastically reducing the weight and