My masterpiece! Photograph: Adrienne So The process of deciding what to make can be overwhelming (especially if you’re 7), so let me offer a few guiding principles. It’s not a blender, so it’s not designed to chop hard, loose ingredients, like ice cubes or straight frozen berries. Also, in ourContinue Reading
More Coffee Maker Favorites Oxo Brew 8-Cup Coffee Maker for $190 or Oxo Brew 9-Cup Coffee Maker for $190: Both of these previous-generation Oxo models are quite lovely, SCA Golden Cup coffeemakers. Both can make tasty drip coffee that would please any connoisseur. But here’s the thing. The 8-cup (9/10,Continue Reading
This creamy mushroom chicken breast did not taste like I cooked it, even though I definitely did. It tasted like my mom cooked it. But the only mom actually involved was the mother of all Yankees, Martha Stewart. I had simmered up my chicken with the help of a MarleyContinue Reading
Coffee snobbery is a world of interrelated and occasionally warring tribes. There are light-roast and dark-roast people, pour-over and espresso people, and fiercely partisan fans of various grinders. (Baratza brothers unite, we will wash our beans in the blood of the Fellow fellows.) AeroPress people are among the quirkiest lotsContinue Reading
Once it’s plugged in, the Revolution’s screen is on and currently never goes off. Instead of turning off after breakfast, it stays on, a big “R” logo the color of glowing coils in the center. If it’s nighttime and you’re sleeping, it’s on. Fiddle with it a bit and connectContinue Reading
The standard serving size that Mr. Coffee arrived at was a 5-ounce “cup,” about the size of a British teacup. Though this may seem small now, it actually did correspond to the size of the cups people used for coffee at the time, Esposito says. It’s also the size thatContinue Reading
With very few exceptions, the best device for toasting is a toaster, if that’s all you need it to do. Toaster ovens tend to do a whole lot more than toast and can handle a much broader array of foods. Toasting is the process of very quickly and evenly heatingContinue Reading
The hopper can comfortably hold a little more than 800 grams, so I weighed 400 grams of each wheat berry. (Check out my guide to the Best Kitchen Scales—this is another great reason to invest in one.) The two 85-mm millstones are made of ceramic and corundum, an oxide mineral.Continue Reading
Honorable Mentions Photograph: KeepCup We’ve run through many travel mugs, and not all of them are winners. These are a few we like, just not as much as the ones above. KeepCup 12oz Coffee Cup for $28: This double-walled, insulated mug is meant to replicate (and replace) paper coffee shopContinue Reading
A coffee maker’s purpose is not to be beautiful. I have to tell myself this when looking at Aarke’s new drip coffee maker, because the Aarke Coffee System is beautiful. This fact could serve to distract me from other important things. The Aarke is Swedish, designed by Swedes in theContinue Reading
