Cooking Tips & Tricks

Whether you're new to cooking or a seasoned chef, we could all use a tip or two once in a while. Learn some of the Epicurious staff's best-kept cooking tips and tricks.

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Steak Tips 101: How to Sear Your Steak

This pro chef has all the tips to make the best steak at home. The first one: Sear your fat cap.

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Is Supermarket Shrimp Fresh?

Chances are that when you’re buying fresh shrimp at the supermarket, it’s actually refreshed shrimp. Here's the process.

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How to Make Flavored Oil

Making a flavored oil is an easy step to make your shrimp scampi or any dish better. Here's how you do it.

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How to Clean and Prep Mussels

A mussel dinner feels cosmopolitan, but it’s actually pretty budget-friendly. Plus, you can buy, clean, and cook a bag of mussels in under an hour. New to mussels? Don't worry, we can help you figure out how to use them. Here's our handy guide for preparing mussels, plus a few of our favorite recipes.

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Our 29 Favorite Recipes to Use Up Jalapeños

Beyond deep-fried poppers and pickled rounds on tacos and sandwiches, the ways to cook with jalapeños are endless. Part of jalapeño recipes’ allure is that they range from not at all spicy to searing heat, and you always have a fair degree of control over the level of spiciness, depending on whether or not you seed the peppers. Slice them into thin slivers, scatter them over nachos, mix them into marinades, or drink them in margaritas. Here are our best jalapeño recipes.

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The Best Cornstarch Substitutes, According to the Pros

This pantry staple is absolutely essential to a well-stocked kitchen. But if you've run out of cornstarch, there’s no need to panic. Cornstarch substitutes abound, and there’s a good chance one or more of them are already in your pantry. Here's how to pick the best cornstarch substitute for whatever you're making.

Here's How to Make Food Less Salty

Overseasoning happens to all of us. But doesn't have to ruin your meal—you can fix an oversalted dish. We’ve rounded up some foolproof techniques to make food less salty and bring your dinner back to life, as well as some cooking tips and hacks to help you avoid oversalting in the future.

How to Cook With 18 Different Types of Peppers

Truly international in their appeal, peppers—some might say chiles—are integral to cuisines worldwide. All types of peppers are part of the genus Capsicum, including hot and sweet varieties. We’ve outlined here 18 varieties of peppers commonly found in the United States in their fresh state (many of which take on another name when dried) and how to cook with each. Here's your guide to cooking with fresh peppers.

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37 Recipes to Put That Extra Heavy Cream to Good Use

You probably already know that a little splash of cream can make any pasta dish more luxurious. But recipes with heavy cream go far beyond pasta. Here are a few of our favorite sweet and savory ways to use up heavy cream, including plush cakes, luscious dip, and an easy large-format take on twice-baked potatoes. There are also flaky and buttery scones, the silkiest soups, and restaurant-level desserts you can prep ahead of time.

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9 Things You Can Do With Your French Press...Besides Making Coffee

You need a French press, but not just for coffee. Even if you favor other methods for making your morning brew, there are so many French press hacks that will make this glass-and-chrome carafe your new favorite kitchen tool. A French press isn’t just something for caffeine dispensing—rather it’s an all-in-one strainer/mixer/squeezer/wonder workhorse. Here's everything else you can use a French press for.

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So what is hominy exactly? The very term is a vestige of the Powhatan language, a word used to describe dried kernels of corn that have been boiled or soaked in an alkali solution and later washed to remove the hulls. Hominy can then be further transformed by cooking it in soups until it rips open and blossoms like a flower, ground coarsely to make hominy grits and cornbread or finely to make masa for tortillas and tamales. Here's your guide to hominy and how to use it.

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While the terms jam, jelly, preserves, and fruit spread are often used interchangeably, these products have distinct differences. Here's the difference between all these sweet spreads. Plus, we have some recipes so you can make some homemade jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, or more.

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Fresh herbs like mint, basil, and tarragon are champions in the kitchen. They offer endless opportunities to upgrade the flavors of virtually any dish (or cocktail). But, if you’re new to cooking with fresh herbs, the produce section can be a little intimidating. So we’ve rounded up a few of the most common herbs carried in American grocery stores, as well as some general tips for buying, storing, and cooking with fresh herbs.

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So you need recipes using jam to make your way through all the many half-eaten jars in your fridge? A smear of jam on a grilled cheese sandwich will help you use a tablespoon or two, and you know you can shake a spoonful into a cocktail, but really getting through your stash means making some of our favorite jam desserts, jam-filled breakfast bakes, and savory recipes using jam. One word of warning: You may like these dishes so much that you find yourself seeking out even more jars.

Cooking Tips & Tricks

Whether you're new to cooking or a seasoned chef, we could all use a tip or two once in a while. Learn some of the Epicurious staff's best-kept cooking tips and tricks.

278 Pins