For five minutes, water dribbles through a shower filter into a thick, tamped coffee puck, working its way slowly through the puck but releasing very few drops. Only when I start hand-pumping is the water pushed more quickly through the puck, dribbling out over the course of another minute orContinue Reading
The home page consists of a list of “postcards” taken by the camera. Each postcard allows you to scroll through multiple high-quality photos and a video with sound, which ranges in length from a few seconds to up to two minutes depending on what a bird might be doing. SometimesContinue Reading
My 2-year-old son thinks all photo frames are digital. He reaches up to the still frames in my parents’ house to swipe to the next photo. While in some ways this sounds a little dystopian, I also find myself a little impressed. The Aura frame in my living room, however,Continue Reading
A beard grows about a millimeter every two or three days, depending on who you are—an eighth of an inch a week, on average. So testing beard trimmers can take a long time. In general, we test each beard trimmer once a beard has grown out enough for a goodContinue Reading
Honorable Mentions Melitta Montalatte Milk Frother for $100: We’ll forgive you if you have no idea Melitta made any notable contributions to the coffee space aside from the filters every coffee drinker buys once they’ve graduated from a “whatever’s in the pot” guy to a “my coffee-making experience is aContinue Reading
My favorite meals focused on multiple textures and various ingredients to make a truly dynamic salad-type dish. The Corn and Poblano Chile Salad With Adobo Pinto Beans was a solid, Mexican-inspired meal that was the perfect lunch to eat on the first warm spring day of the year. Roasted poblanoContinue Reading
You’ll find it in the sculptures of Puglia, the dinnerware of Naples and even on the staircases of Sicily. Maiolica – or majolica – is a tin-glazed earthenware known for its luminous white finish, an ideal canvas for striking hand-painted designs. Popularised in the 16th century, this versatile medium becameContinue Reading
The food falls into the broad category of “better than expected.” Maybe Diet-to-Go’s jambalaya would not have been recognizable to Paul Prudhomme as his home cuisine. But it was tasty enough nonetheless: meaty and stewy with tomatoes, earthily spicy without too much bite except from a peppery andouille. The plentifulContinue Reading
Honorable Mentions We’ve tested dozens of cooling sheets. Here are a few others we like but not as much as the options above. Bedsure Bamboo Cooling Sheet Set for $41: These bamboo sheets are some of the best affordable sheets we’ve found, though not as cooling as our top picks.Continue Reading
I was finding, however, that the food coming out of this smoker wasn’t all that smoky, even when the device was maxed out on the highest smokiness setting. Perhaps related, I’d often find that it gave the food more the smell of smoke than the taste. I also consistently noticedContinue Reading
