The KitchenAid is seductively easy, but it’s wicked easy to overdo it and end up developing the starch into glue. Great if you're making aligot, not so nice for a holiday dinner.

Objectively, the best I’ve ever had is a hybrid of Heston Blumenthal and Joël Robuchon’s methods: thin sliced waxy potatoes are cooked sous vide at 72C for 90 minutes then refrigerated overnight,l. Next day they get slowly poached, painstakingly dried ovwr low heat and riced, then 75% of the potato weight in cold…

So just Italian-flavored Skyline chili.

What the...the Euro-spec Ka+ got 3 stars. Not great but not nearly as abysmal: 74% adult, 61% child, 57% pedestrian, 29% safety assist. Are the Latin models THAT much more stripped-down?

Serious Eats theorizes a lot of wok hei is the oil vapor flaring up as it’s tossed outside the wok, into the superheated air coming from the wok burner. They have a home method that involves adding a touch of water and then waving a torch over the pan as you toss the food, to get a nice fireball and toasty flavor; it…

Was she a Dibbler by any chance?

In person, my first Top Fuel event. There are no words.

Take the bits, throw in some Calabrian chiles and enough evoo to get it to blend, and you’ve got quick-n-easy ‘nduja.

Ding ding ding winner. After 25 years in the business can confirm this is The Way. Don't scrub them or anything, just one big tub of unpeeled in water, and another tub of water to receive the peeled ones. Less dirt transfers, they're definitely easier to peel...and with less dirt your peeler will stay sharp longer.…

Copper is glorious, but the good stuff makes cast iron look dainty and featherweight. I did a spell working at a place that only had proper 1/8" commercial Mauviel pans, I damn near had Popeye forearms by the time I left.

Protip - roux freezes fabulously, you can make a big ol’ batch and put it in ice cube trays, then pop them into a plastic bag for storage. You’re technically supposed to use cold roux with a hot liquid anyway, so there’s literally no downside to having it around. It makes making the gravy an utter snap, once you have…

Wondra’s alright for thickening, but as others have mentioned it has the raw flavor. Where it really shines, and pretty much the only thing I use it for, is dusting fish skin before it goes into the pan. It’s the secret to Le Bernardin’s legendary crispy black bass; once you try it, you will never, ever not use it.

What, do you expect Samsung and LG to keep the defective ones for themselves and ship the good ones to Apple? Jokes aside, I can’t see this being a manufacturer defect; those two corps make the vast majority of OLED mobile displays, if something were wrong with the process we’d be hearing about it in more than just…

Funny you should say that because that’s literally what it is. The Diet Coke formula is completely unrelated to the Classic Coke formula; it’s based on Tab instead. New Coke was indeed just Diet Coke with corn syrup instead of aspartame...yet it took them thirty-plus years to do the reverse, take the sugars out of…

This whole comedy of futility assumes you want to have a whole bird to bring out and carve - if you’re willing to skip the ceremony and oohs and ahs, there’s an almost infinitely better way to cook your turkey. It’s an extension of how I’ve done the birds at several fancy-pants restaurants, where there’s less worry…

No, you just need to suck it up and certify it as a 797. But then the airlines won’t buy it because type-certifying pilots is like 3x more expensive than “familiarizing” them. I, for one, am fine flying Boeing but I’m taking great pains to avoid carriers with 737-heavy fleets. Once they pay up to get into the modern…

Arrrrgh the MAX is NOT dynamically unstable...if you knock it a little out of whack and then take your hands off the controls, and shut off all the computers, so zero control input of any sort, it will tend back towards stable flight. It’s not an F-117 or F-22 where lack of control input will exacerbate any perturbatio…

From the headline I thought you were going to advocate for an option to have the dealer remove all the protective films and I was about to get very angry lol

No components were changed or modified. The car was physically identical to one sitting on the showroom floor - the suspension, swaybars, aero and alignment are all adjustable from the factory. Sure, the *settings* on the dealer model are different, but that’s like saying it’s cheating to set a car to Race mode…

“now they all have side projects”...May, at least, has had multiple hustles since 2006 (Oz and James). They mostly aren’t even car-related, just a slightly crotchety sort-of-Renaissance-Man doing his thing. They’re lovely, particularly The Reassembler...triple-distilled essence of May.