Food

Eggplant is roughly 90 percent water, and most of that water is still sitting inside the flesh whether it’s raw or simply tossed onto a pizza uncooked, which is exactly …

Smoke rises off the crab shells first, sharp and a little acrid the way anything does under a broiler’s direct heat, and then the truffle butter goes on and the …

I used to think crispy wings meant a deep fryer, full stop, until I actually paid attention to why baked wings usually come out soft instead. It’s almost never the …

Egg whites and egg yolks don’t set at the same temperature, and that gap is the entire reason it’s possible to end up with a fully cooked white wrapped around …

There’s a specific give to lobster shell right before it cracks, a moment of resistance that holds for a second longer than you expect and then gives way all at …

I’ll be honest about why this recipe exists: I got tired of buffalo cauliflower falling apart in the oven and turning into orange mush by the time it hit the …

Tuna and beef sear the same way in principle, but tuna gives you almost no room for error, because its lower fat content means the interior heats through in a …

There’s a specific sound a raw asparagus spear makes when you bend it near the base: a clean, dry snap, right at the exact point where the woody end gives …

Rotisserie chicken tastes the way it does because the bird spins constantly under dry, circulating heat, so no single side of it sits in trapped steam long enough to turn …

I’ll say this upfront: marinated turkey and zucchini tacos are not going to win a beauty contest, and the leftovers get a little sad by day three. But on a …