Meat & Kitchen Preparation Basics

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself some questions about the best ways to cook stir-fry? This popular dish has people from all over the world looking for the best possible ways to cook their stir-fry – and that goes beyond the sauces and to the actual cookware.

If you find yourself in the position where you want to know the best way to make stir-fry, you might wonder if an electric wok for stir fry makes sense.

We will take a look at all of this as well as the options that you have for cooking stir-fry to make it as tasty and delicious as possible. 

A BBQ grill mat is an excellent accessory for your barbecue grill, and it provides several benefits despite its simplicity. A barbecue grill mat is a fiberglass, copper, or silicone mat that manufacturers cover with a heat-resistant coating. 

You know that you will begin to think about using a turkey roaster around the Thanksgiving holiday. That is when approximately 46 million turkeys will be consumed, and your family is likely to have one as well.

Therefore, it seems relevant that you might want to know about a turkey roaster, if it is worth your while, what the pros and cons of getting one are, and more.

If that sounds like the path that you are on, then please read on to learn about some of the pros and cons of using a turkey roaster. 

An electric roaster for meat is a versatile item that can provide us with a number of advantages. Of course, there are also drawbacks that need to be considered as well.

This is especially true for anyone who is thinking about using an electric roaster for cooking meat.

While the prospect of using an electric roaster for meat is simple enough, there are a few different considerations that need to be made.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the most frequently asked questions and how they are going to affect the process of preparing meat in an electric oven roaster:

Do you struggle with limited counter space in a kitchen? Or would cutting your vegetables over the sink make it easier to dispose of in the garbage disposal?

Either way, having an over-the-sink cutting board is ideal to instantly add counter space to your kitchen while helping you with easy clean-up when cutting food. 

Meat dumplings are a wonderful and delicious dish that many people like cooking at home instead of buying them from restaurants.

When you cook them yourself, you not only have the opportunity to control the ingredients that you use so you can keep them as healthy as you’d like, but you can also control the taste, as well.

If you love eating grilled foods but you hate the cleanup afterwards, then you aren’t alone.

This is why manufacturers are always developing new products to make cleaning a grill easier.

One way to avoid the tedious cleanup process after using a grill is to purchase a disposable charcoal grill, especially if you only grill occasionally.

Ask anyone who is interested in cooking amazing food about their opinion on griddles and you are sure to hear some thoughts.

In fact, if you opened that question up to the Internet or any group of people with serious opinions about cooking, you may open a can of worms that you did not intend to open.

That said, you should consider asking these questions anyway because they are so important to the types of purchases that you may consider making in order to enhance your own cooking experience.

Tamales are one of the most popular Latin American foods in the U.S. Tasty meat and/or cheese fillings tucked inside of a soft pillow of corn dough, tamales may not be an everyday delight for most in this country, but they are certainly savored when a few can be had.

It’s interesting that tamales are not more frequently consumed. The dish has a long history that took it from being a diet staple for struggling people to being a specialty dish on restaurant menus along with more popular options like fajitas or enchiladas. Tamales have had a unique journey throughout the world, every delicious step at a time.

Unlike other kinds of meat, bacon can be particularly tricky to cook evenly. It likes to curl up, leaving a weird combination of crispiness and chewiness.

Instead of dealing with the guesswork of trying to cook the perfect bacon, let’s take a look at a tool that can solve the problem. That tool is the bacon grill press.

Have you ever had meat so tender, flavorful, and juicy that you wondered how it was cooked? Chances are they used a brining bag. This is a tried-and-true way to keep the moisture in the meat.

Cooking on a grill is a favorite activity for many. Nobody likes their grilled delicacies to be over or undercooked, though.

For this article, we’ll discuss how to calibrate the Traeger meat probe to make sure you get the best performance out of your Traeger grill. 

One knife is not like the others. Besides being the only knife with a hole in the blade, a cleaver knife has quite a few other quirks that make it the odd one out.

Discover the practical and handy reason for that hole and why cleavers are perhaps the most useful yet woefully under-utilized tool in the kitchen. 

If you’ve ever heard of thawing trays, you may have asked yourself a few questions. How do thawing trays work? Are thawing trays actually effective? If it’s worth it, should you invest in a thawing tray or two?

Serrated knives were originally invented to cut bread easily and without destroying the loaf.

So why are steak knives serrated? Well, they really aren’t. Steak knives are smooth bladed while utility bread knives are often serrated and used to cut through tough steaks.

Conventionally, smoking was mainly used as a way of preserving food. However, there has been a significant paradigm shift since smoking has become a timeless art form that has developed due to technological advancements and extended periods of culinary trial and error.  

This guide will help narrow down the best grill for an apartment balcony within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for an electric grill that can be used on a small balcony or a portable charcoal grill or disposable grill for burgers, a grill is a great way to increase your cooking options.

This guide will help narrow down the best kitchen cleaver knife options within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for slicing brisket or dicing ham or prepping neck bones, or going after marrow, a good kitchen cleaver knife is must-have kitchen appliance.

This guide will help narrow down the best tofu press within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of tofu press options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking to simplify your tofu prep or trying to get into eating more tofu, a good tofu press can make a big difference. Ditch the paper towel or plate and let’s dive in.

This guide will help narrow down the best fish steamer (i.e., “fish poacher”) within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for poaching a fresh trout, steaming pollock, or steaming some clams & oysters (instead of shucking), the fish steamer / fish poacher is a must-have seafood tool.

This guide will help narrow down the best oyster opener for shucking within your budget that fits your skills. Because let’s face it – oysters are a pain to eat. The standard “opener” is a oyster knife that looks more like a finger slicer than a seafood tool.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of oyster openers on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for a full-on machine or just a safe, ergonomic knife, the a good oyster opener is must-have for enjoying fresh oyster.

This guide will help narrow down the best grill spatula (aka “grill turner”) for your home use within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking to flip burgers or carefully turn fish, the best grill spatula is a must-have grilling tool along with grilling tongs.

This guide will help narrow down the best grill tongs for your home use within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for dependable, easy-to-use grilling or to handle large cuts of brisket (and the burnt ends!) and Denver steak, grill tongs are a must-have grilling tool.

This guide will help narrow down the best dumpling steamer for your kitchen within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for fun experimentation or just have a craving for lots of not-frozen dumplings, a good dumpling steamer is a fun & creative kitchen appliance (though not super-necessary).

This guide will help narrow down the best countertop hot plates within your budget that fits your needs so you can make quick, great meals without a stove.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of countertop hot plate options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking for a quick breakfast & lunch electric cooktop or need to replace an electric stove, the right countertop hot plate is a must-have kitchen appliance for many kitchens.

This guide will help narrow down the best carving sets for meat within your budget that fits your needs.

Based on our own staff’s experience, in-depth research in premium trade subscriptions, and crunching publicly available user reviews, we’ve curated the thousands of carving set options on the market for a few that fit each typical use.

Whether you are looking to carve the Thanksgiving turkey or roll the Sunday roast beef, the right carving set is a must-have kitchen tool.