Say hello to our favorite new kitchen tool! Seriously! We were skeptical when a friend first gave us a set of these microwave cooking covers, but they have quickly gone into daily use in our kitchen. ...
Corn tortillas are easy to make and tasty little vessels for so many different foods, but no matter how hard we try, we never seem to be able to make it through all of them without a few getting a b...
If you've ever accidentally left a fork on the plate of food you're heating up, you know that metal and microwaves don't play so nicely together. Mini-lightening bolts are pretty, to be sure, but a bi...
Even though it's winter in most places around the country and our gardens aren't quite up yet, we wanted to let you know about this easy technique to dry fresh herbs. It's a great way to store unu...
It's practically an urban legend: a man heats water in the microwave for a cup of instant coffee. While taking the cup out of the microwave, he notices the water doesn't have any bubbles...at which po...
Due to the recent passing of a family member, we have been away from home and staying at a relative's house. We've been the designated cook and it has varied between easy and somewhat confusing. We're...
Most of our slicing and dicing in the kitchen is done on our wood cutting board. We do still have a plastic one around for a spare and until now have been quite confident in our ability to keep it cl...
Did you know that you can toast nuts in the microwave? Neither did we! Harold McGee mentions it in passing in the section about cooking with nuts in On Food and Cooking, and we thought we'd put it to ...
Making a batch of super crispy, low-fat potato chips in the microwave is still one of our very favorite ways to take care of a late-afternoon snack attack. They're so easy to make, and it's fun to jaz...
We know what you're thinking, because we thought the same thing at first! Cheesecake in 2 minutes and made in the microwave?! It doesn't sound like a good idea, let alone delicious one. But our fe...
There was a time when a certain bunny-shaped pasta with instant cheese mix figured prominently in our weekly meal plan. Now we turn to a quick dinner solution that’s just as easy and, dare we say, m...
Microwave popcorn is a college dorm staple – when your kitchen is limited to a microwave and a mini fridge, what choice do you have? But did you know there's a way to make it that's healthier, tas...
Our household received this microwave to test for The Kitchn's sister site, Unplggd. The thing is, we have never owned a microwave and are at a loss for what to do with it! (Ahh, the effect of growing...
Working in an office, we've become quite finicky about the containers we use for our lunches. We eat plenty of cold lunches, but sometimes we crave something hot, which means using the microwave. For ...
Have you ever tried making scrambled eggs in the microwave? They won't win any awards over those cooked on the stove top (or over an open fire!), but these eggs will certainly do a in a pinch. Here's ...
Microwaves are one of the more unsightly and bulky things in a kitchen. We have an extra-small one, but it still takes up too much space, and we wish we could hide it away like in the picture above. W...
My parents, who are fanatic eaters of steamed vegetables, were really excited about these new-ish microwave steamer bags from Ziploc when I was home over the holidays. I hadn't seen them before and wa...
We're doing a bit of kitchen reorganization (you know, because we're not crazy enough with holiday cooking!) and have been musing about different places we could stash our microwave. Where do you keep...
We have no grill and not much patience for watching big stock pots of water boil, which is why this is one of our favorite tricks for cooking corn. The key is to leave on the husks while you nuke them...
What do you do when you pull out the bag of brown sugar and it's a perfectly formed, rock-hard, square-edged brick? This doesn't happen often to us (we use a lot of brown sugar), but it did the other ...
What's looking good today? Well, there's a sleek way to hide your microwave, some good summer snacks and a sad (yet delicious) farewell post from one of our very favorite blogs. ...
Help! We're small, and we're trying to be cool, and we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Our house came with a semi-ancient Caloric oven/stove/microwave combo. The microwave broke a couple of times,...
As we look to pare down and keep our kitchen appliances to a minimum, the first thing to go for many people is a toaster. It is the definitive single-use appliance, and it can take up far too much pre...
Microwaves are suddenly having their day in the sun; last week Mark Bittman gave them a thumb's up in the New York Times. We also posted this silicone microwave steamer from Orka that promises you qui...
Microwaves and silicone - these two things and certainly the combination of both were hardly likely to win our attention at the Housewares show. We've predicted that home cooks are past the honeymoon ...
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