Building the Ultimate Green Kitchen

CHOW’s ecoconscious remodel guide.

After I finish chpping spicy chilis, the oil stays on my hands. Even after scrubbing with soap and water – the darn stuff remains. I rubbed my eyes the other night and felt like I had been tear-gassed. Any suggestions...

My vote goes to Jaime Oliver. I like his food, his freewheeling style and the cute young models he entertains. Over the top and down-to-earth. Worst: That fuzzy little dude from New Bedford, Emeril LaGasse. He’s a cross...

The fine Burgundy was a bust with my lamb dish. But two pounds of fresh morels made every difference.

This probably indicates that the tuna has been treated with carbon monoxide to preserve its red color and cover-up any imperfections. Although Citarella will deny that their $20/lb hunk of tuna has been "gassed", the majority of...

No the plastic wrap won’t melt . It will keep the batter in the pan, but based on off gassing of chemicals I do not even use it in the microwave anymore. I think if you wrap the pan carefully in foil, and put it on a baking...

'm looking to add house-pickled cukes and dilly beans to the menu at our small restaurant, so beautiful stoneware crocks and glass jars aren’t really feasible. Evergreengirl mentioned off-gassing. What’s that mean?...

Remove them from their soaking water and keep them in a moist tea towel for half a day more and the sprouts will get longer. I wouldn’t leave them in the same soaking water because the gasses and sugars coming out of the...

My mother, an industrial-grade dilettante if there ever was one, use to go off on tirades about fruits "being gassed with ethylene gas (make distateful and superior face here) and how she would have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with...

. The natural sugars in the juice start to ferment and begin to become alcohol. Once it starts to work you may want to loosen the cap a little to let off some of the gasses. My DH loves this and makes a batch when he cn get his...

the cheapest price (although you do sometimes) but you get quality. And you go to support the efforts of local vendors and farmers in your mutual quest to overcome the genetic engineering, too early picking, and gassing of...

getting into the boxes and they don’t get gassed. If you were to take them and put them in a paper bag with an apple or two they would ripen in a few days as apples give off ethylene gas

Cook Oatmeal with the lid on. Keeps the moisture in and helps it cook faster. Cook green vegetables with the lid off. This allows the gasses that turn them that yucky brown to escape. Anything that will be rapidly boiling –...

/3rd of a load of laundry, but never had but 10 pounds of taters in them. Onions, I kept in a retired strainer. I learned never to let Onions or Taters be stored close to each other, otherwise the "gassing" of the two causes...

't been cold stabilized before bottling. Just pour the liquid off carefully and the taste is relatively unaffected. The photo below shows some of my defrosted samples in a tasting line-up. Image:...