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Help Me Find Alton Brown's Olive Oil Baster-Dropper-Thing
Good Question

Ali wrote to us, looking for Alton Brown's very cool olive oil baster. I was watching the show "Good Eats" on Food Network and he was using this amazing baster tool for his olive oil. Any idea what it...

Looking For: The Best Oil Mister

I use quite a lot of spray oil in my kitchen. I use it for greasing pans, coating balls of bread dough, and for lightly greasing skillets before frying onions or other vegetables. Well, I am fed up wi...

Recycled Glass Soda Bottles for Dish Soap, Oil, and Vinegar

Take a look at these vintage soda bottles, recycled by Monika into easy-pour bottles for her oil and vinegar. This is a great idea for this week of the Kitchen Cure, as we ask you to finish deep-clean...

How To Use Pistachio Oil
Paris

The French use a variety of nut oils in their cooking. One of my favorite discoveries has been pistachio oil. Extracted from pistachio nuts, pistachio oil is a beautiful bright green, with a heady aro...

Times Top Five: Zuni Café Tomato Bread Salad
From the NY Times Dining Section 07.23.08

There were plenty of good things in today's New York Times dining section. Our top five favorites include a giant food party in San Francisco, a no-bake cheesecake, bread salad from a famous chef, and...

Quick Tip: How to Tell When Oil is Hot

Recipes often say to start cooking ingredients "when the oil is hot." But this seems like something that's easier said than done! The problem with adding raw ingredients to under-heated oil is that t...

Low-Fat Pesto: Can It Be As Good As the Real Thing?

You know that we love basil, so of course we love pesto too, especially during the summer. But pesto is a little high in fat to be eating every day. So we've been challenging ourselves lately to make...

Supermarket Saver: How Much to Pay for Olive Oil?

Eating consciously and minding our budgets can be a tough balancing act, especially as we all look for ways to trim down our spending as gas and food prices continue to rise. Sometimes thinking stra...

Loving: Roasted Walnut Oil

We're nursing a crush, a secret crush, but we'll tell you all about it because we know we can trust you. We have a massive crush on walnut oil. ...