Q: I am moving to a new apartment in about a month. Other than my spices, oils, and vinegars I need to eat all of the food I have stored up. It's been going well up until now: throw a can of this in ...
Trader Joe's certainly caused quite a hubbub when they decided to stop carrying King Arthur Flour and switch over to a store brand. We saw the new Trader Joe's all-purpose flour on the shelves for the...
Sheri is looking for a good flour canister. Can you help?I am completely hooked on Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day (which I originally spotted on your site). I haven't bought bread at a store in two ...
Here's a question from Kitchen reader Cara about working with whole wheat white flour in her baking:At what ratio should white whole wheat flour be substituted for regular whole wheat? What about whit...
Last week, we talked about how starches are used to thicken sauces, puddings, pie fillings, and soups like the one above. This week, we'll check out the different kinds of starches that get used in co...
After listening to Evan Kleinman's talk with Cindy Mushet about flour on the Good Food show this past week, we were left thinking about bleached and unbleached flour. Mushet is insistent that unbleach...
Do you know your flours? Evan Kleinman brought Cindy Mushet, author of The Art and Soul of Baking, onto the show last week to give us all a refresher course. Here's what she had to share......
We've been keeping an eye out for good products to recommend for folks wanting to tackle baking this year. The idea of self-rising flour seemed promising at first, but it didn't end up being quite wha...
If you make bread every weekend or have an obsession with cakes, it makes sense to keep specific flours for those recipes on-hand. But what about the rest of us? Is there such a big difference between...
Eatwell Farm has just started to harvest and mill their own organic flour. This lovely bag of whole wheat flour was ground just the day before and costs five dollars for the three-pound bag....
Why is there a bay leaf in our flour canister?...
We were at a friend's house over the weekend and saw something unexpected in her fridge: a bag of flour. When we asked, she insisted that this was the best place to store flour - not the pantry. Curio...
Bread bakers are a calm, serene, zen-like bunch. (Right?!) But nothing gets us more paranoid than the fear of adding too much flour: too little and we have bubble-gum dough sticking to everything, to...
Many people already use easily-dissolving Wondra Instant Flour for lump-free gravies and sauces. This wheat flour has been pre-cooked and then dried (much like instant rice), so it dissolves without s...
Last Thursday I gave a controversial assignment as part of Week Two of The Kitchn Cure: I asked you to pitch your processed foods. And the questions started rolling in about what, exactly, processe...
Ever wondered why a cake recipe doesn't come out the same every time? It could be how you're measuring. Pastry chefs and recipe developers typically weigh ingredients to get an accurate measurement...
Like pans and prep tools there is a dizzying array of baking ingredients available. Even a small grocery store will offer at least five kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar and lots of other things t...
It's Baking Week here at The Kitchn, and John Baricelli of the new PBS television show Everyday Baking asked us for your baking questions. We are also taking questions for Lisa Yockelson, who will an...
It's Baking Week here at The Kitchn, and John Baricelli of the new PBS television show Everyday Baking asked us for your baking questions. Remember we are also taking questions for Lisa Yockelson, ...
How many times have you seen these instructions in a recipe: Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt... Quite a lot, right? How many times do you follow it? We're curious about how often you sift your...
What is cake flour? We often see it specified in recipes for cakes and even cookies, and we were wondering what the difference is between cake flour and regular all-purpose flour. So off we went to ...
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