How Long Can Butter Be Kept Out Before Going Rancid?

It depends on heat and light. (By Tara Shioya)

Will Rice and Dry Beans Last Forever?

It’s all about proper storage. (By Jason Horn)

What Is Mineral Oil?

And do you have to squeeze rocks to get it? (By Roxanne Webber)

How Long Can Dried Pasta Be Stored?

It doesn’t get moldy, so surely it lasts forever. (By Michele Foley)

What's the Difference Between Types of Oatmeal?

Scottish or Irish, steel-cut or rolled, old-fashioned or instant? (By Roxanne Webber)

Where Does Canola Oil Come From?

The origins of the controversy-plagued oil. (By Jason Horn)

Garden Harvest Toasted Chips and Hemp Bliss Organic Hempmilk

This week’s mission: Quasi-healthy chips containing fruit, and nondairy “milk” that tastes like rancid nuts. (By James Norton)

Pop Will Eat Itself

Musicians need food, too. (By Ray Lee)

On the Chopping Block

CHOW reviews the best wood cutting boards. (By Louisa Chu)

Old-Tyme Flavor

How to season and care for your cast iron pan. (By Regan Burns and Lessley Anderson)

Mapping the Mustache

CHOW’s milk taste test. (By Lessley Anderson)

Whole Grains 101

How to cook them and why they’re worth the wait.

Food products containing nuts are rancid so often, people are used to it. (By Sarah Perry)

Lye-treated, gelatinous dried fish that’s more bland than vile. (By Sarah Perry)

When aged, this gentle calf of a cheese turns into a gnarly old bull. (By Sarah Perry)