With the onslaught of celebrity chefs, reality-TV cooking competitions and a cable network dedicated to everything edible, the popularity of cooking has heated up. Cooking has been transformed from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The most important thing in your kitchen is also the simplest. It’s the knife. Increasingly, many foods come prepared for the home cook (frozen chopped ...

Good food starts with good ingredients and attentive cooking skills. It’s often said that one needs only ingredients, a sharp knife and a flame (or other heat source) to make a meal. But if you’re not ...

What are the different knife cuts? If you’re looking to up your at-home cooking game, mastering some basic knife cuts is a good place to start. Chefs use a variety of different cuts for different ...

Brunoise cut, which is a fancy word for a nice dice, best practiced with a carrot. First, cut the core off the tip, and get a workable size of three to four inches. When you're cutting, make sure this ...

Purchasing a quality chef knife is a great first step for a beginner home cook, but the quality of the knife soon won’t matter if it isn’t cared for. Luckily it only requires a few habits and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We put eight 8-inch chef’s knives through a battery of tricky tasks, both in the lab and at home. Here's how Henckels, Wüsthof, ...

A good chef’s knife is a central player in your kitchen lineup. Most chefs will tell you that you should have a Western blade for methodical chopping and a Japanese-style knife for more delicate prep.

No more blunt blades — our favorite knives start sharp and stay that way Written By Written by Contributor, Buy Side Lauren Joseph is a contributor to Buy Side and culinary expert. Edited By Written ...