Looking again at 2023 because it manifested in Eater at House’s hottest tales, a few issues develop into readily obvious: y’all actually like kitchen hacks, sturdy opinions, and cookies. This yr, you needed to know why it is sensible to avoid wasting your rice water and hold a rotisserie hen within the fridge, and how you can host a yard barbecue with out being eaten alive by flying bugs. And possibly a few of you additionally miss your George Foreman Grill and suspect that you just’re not getting what you want from the massive spoons in your utensil drawer. Beneath are the posts that made you click on probably the most; we suggest studying them with a plate of cookies by your facet.
10. I Actually Miss My George Foreman Grill
A captivating phenomenon of the ’90s, the George Foreman Grill was additionally an intrinsic a part of Eater correspondent Jaya Saxena’s childhood. The grill was extensively marketed as a “fat-reducing machine” due to its 20-degree slope and as such grew to become a sophisticated emblem of the last decade’s eating regimen tradition. However for Saxena, rising up as the one youngster of divorced dad and mom, the grill was, as she writes, “the primary half-step into the world of cooking for myself,” and priceless proof that she didn’t must depend upon her dad and mom to eat.
9. The Final Information to Sandwich Breads
Eater’s Sandwich Week devoted quite a few posts to the positive particulars of sandwich building, however none resonated as a lot as Dayna Evans’s information to sandwich breads. No sandwich is full with out it, Evans famous; with out it, she wrote, it “is merely a charcuterie board.” Her taxonomy encompassed a baker’s dozen of choices, from rolls and pita to deluxe choices like baguettes and ciabatta.
8. The Finest Cookie Recipes, Based on Eater Employees
Cookies encourage predictable and enduring pleasure, so it’s little shock that our round-up of favourite cookie recipes has a spot right here. Compiled throughout the peak of baking season, it options cookies that will have a spot at any swap — hey, strawberry rose snickerdoodles and pretzel linzers with salted caramel — however as true aficionados know, a superb cookie recipe is welcome any time of yr.
7. Everybody Ought to Eat Extra Cottage Cheese
Like many individuals, Eater reporter Amy McCarthy was as soon as a cottage cheese hater — till she realized that it might be eaten with savory substances. In making it an everyday a part of her breakfast, she has come to understand its nuances: the model you purchase issues, and its lumpy texture, so off-putting to some, may be made thick and creamy with a fast whir of the blender. “It’s time for cottage cheese to reclaim its rightful place on the breakfast desk,” McCarthy writes — and he or she’s not alone in her opinion.
6. Preserve a Rotisserie Hen within the Fridge
In September, we revealed our very first cookbook. Not only a assortment of recipes, it is usually a compendium of priceless recommendation, as this excerpt demonstrates. A rotisserie hen, as Eater restaurant editor (and Eater cookbook creator) Hillary Dixler Canavan writes, “means you’ve acquired meals for a complete week.” Use it in soup, or congee, or empanadas, or lettuce wraps — however no matter you do, don’t throw away the carcass, which may be simmered right into a scrumptious broth.
5. We’re Utilizing Massive Spoons Mistaken
Eater at House thrives on the intersection of trivia and cultural tendencies, which is strictly the intersection the place Jaya Saxena’s inquiry into our use of spoons lives. After noticing a fervent devotion to small spoons in sure quarters of the web, Saxena puzzled: “Is the dinner spoon actually that unwieldy? Or are we simply utilizing it improper?” Her inquiry led her again to the Nineteenth century, when etiquette guides decreed that forks ought to virtually at all times be used instead of spoons, and to think about whether or not the utensil drawer of the long run may make huge spoons the stuff of, nicely, Nineteenth-century etiquette guides.
4. The Finest Sriracha Substitutes to Survive the Huy Fong Scarcity
In April, Huy Fong Meals, the maker of Sriracha, declared it was experiencing an “unprecedented stock scarcity” for the second time in two years. Amy McCarthy was right here to assist, with a information to acceptable substitutes for the eternally widespread sizzling sauce, together with harissa, different sriracha manufacturers, or actually some other sizzling sauce. As she identified, “it’s essential to take into account that just about any sizzling sauce you like will do.”
3. Add Rosemary to Your Water
Folks on this nation are at all times being instructed to drink extra water by different individuals who appear to have little appreciation for the way boring water is. Maybe that’s why Amy McCarthy’s easy hack discovered so many receptive readers — a sprig of rosemary, she writes, is an easy approach to make a glass of water “style colder and extra refreshing,” and in contrast to a wedge of lemon, “it received’t go away a bunch of gross-looking floating pulp in your glass.” We’ll drink to that!
2. Easy methods to Dine Outdoor, Minus the Bugs
A part of Eater’s April Patio Week, Amy McCarthy’s story answered a query that was apparently on lots of people’s minds because the summer season months approached. College of Nebraska entomologist Kait Chapman helpfully broke down the totally different sorts of bugs it’s important to be careful for, and one of the best methods to ward them away out of your outside meals. (Trace: bug zappers and citronella candles don’t work.)
1. You Ought to Be Saving Your Rice Water
Cooks are at all times telling us to avoid wasting our pasta water, however actually, we ought to be saving our rice water, too. “As cooks from rice-loving cultures around the globe have lengthy identified,” Eater’s Bettina Makalintal writes, “rice water is a helpful byproduct in each cooking and housekeeping.” Whether or not you need to thicken a stew, make your sheets softer, or water your crops, the water you save from rinsing rice can try this. And given this story’s attain, we are able to solely think about that lots of you took that recommendation and ran with it.
