The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

STEP 3: TEAR OFF THE GREENS. Tear off the dark green bits and discard or save to add to ...

STEP 4: WASH AND USE. ...

KNIFE SKILLS: How to Prepare Endive for Salads Bitter endive leaves can be added to salads whole or sliced into ...

STEP 1: TRIM THE END ...

STEP 2: SEPARATE THE LEAVES Only remove the ones that come off easily. STEP 3: TRIM AGAIN AND REP ...

STEP 4: READY TO WASH AND ADD WHOLE If you want slivers, go on. ...

STEP 5: STACK THE LEAVES Stacking the leaves in neat piles makes it easier to cut them evenly. ...

STEP 6: SLICE Slice the leaves into slivers of the desired thickness. ...

STEP 7: WASH Place the endive in a salad spinner and wash under cold water. ...

STEP 8: SPIN-DRY ...

STEP 9: READY TO USE ...

DRESSING Family #2: MAYONNAISE-BASED DRESSINGS Pivotal, life-changing moments come in all forms. For some, it ...

clam at their father’s side on Cape Cod, or perhaps the day they found out that Darth Vader was ...

of the divide—keep it away from the bread at all costs—but after having been slowly weaned onto it by m ...

small bits of fat will refract light to a much greater than a big pool of fat, which is what ...

Setting your mixing bowl on top of a towel-lined pot will stabilize it during heavy whisking. When egg yolks ...

processor makes this process nearly foolproof). As the oil falls into the bowl, the rapid ac ...

limiting its movement. Eventually, if you keep adding oil, the mayonnaise will start to turn from creamy ...

this large group of nerds who just entered and have a strong desire to join them. So it is with oil ...

very method that I witnessed on that infomercial all those years ago: using an immersion blend ...