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Pro kitchen tools for the home chef, all under $10.

New dish scrubbers make scouring easy.

The country ham is our native prosciutto or serrano, though most Southerners wouldn’t dream of throwing an uncooked leg on a deli slicer and shaving some to go with the asparagus. Most Northerners, meanwhile, have never heard of...

The salesman had had quite enough of my waffling between two overcoats. Howard Turkell, 60-ish and a garment center veteran, was trying to be polite with the weirdo hipster kid who’d turned up at his third-floor shop that...

There’s been a silicone revolution in cooking implements in the past few years, and the newest super silicone helper is a brush for basting food and applying glazes. ...

More men are doing their own food shopping, but, experts say, they find grocery stores “overwhelming.”

The ranks of female sommeliers have grown over the past decade, but do these very women still harbor outdated gender stereotypes?

Does anyone have a method for removing the stubborn traces of olive oil, melted butter, chicken drippings etc. from natural bristle basting brushes? I’m tempted to try the silicon version, but the "bristles" seem so wimpy...

Finally got really disgusted with the old school ones. I was never certain of the cleanliness, couldn’t stand those dang stray bristles that shed at the most inopportune times... So I fast forwarded to the new millennium and...

Today for about the fifth time, I picked up one of those new fangled silicon brushes, for brushing butter on food, or barbecue sauce, etc. I turned it over and over and was put off by the price ($9.95). However, I have thrown out...

yesterday, I noticed that the bristles are what we ought, euphemistically, refer to as...“tacky”—perhaps even figuratively as well as literally. My initial solution was to simply boil away the crud. When that...

I bought a couple pounds of pork belly to braise, Shanghai-style. When I got home, I saw that the skin had short bristles, which I had never seen on previous pork belly purchases. Does the presence of bristles mean the skin is...

In the vein of “you didn't hear this from me” I will admit to buying the cheapest natural bristle paint brushes that I can find at hardware/big box stores. Usually they’re two or three for a dollar instead of...

I’m at T-minus 24 hours to winetasting. Oh, I didn’t tell you: Tomorrow I’ll be drinking glass after glass of priceless Bordeaux atop a mountain in New Hampshire.