In The Kitchen

Ingredient Guides

What are the best apples for baking? What oil should I use for cooking? What is aquafaba and how do I use it? Our Ingredient Guides reveal all.
Ground cardamom and green and black cardamom pods on white plate
Know Your Spices: Cardamom
Cloves of black garlic on a white plate with a whole head and a sliced head of garlic behind it.
What is Black Garlic and How Is It Used?
Overhead view of different types of yeast and a bowl with bread behind them.
A Guide to Yeast
A bowl of Crème Fraîche with the packaging set in front of it.
What is Crème Fraîche?
Variety of cartons showing half and half substitutes.
The Best Substitutes for Half and Half
Whole coriander on a plate.
The Best Substitutes for Coriander
5 Buttermilk Substitutes laid on a colorful background.
The Best Substitutes for Buttermilk
5 Cornstarch Substitutes on a colorful background.
The Best Substitutes for Cornstarch
5 Sour Cream Substitutes on a colorful background.
The Best Substitutes for Sour Cream
Chicken Gizzards
What Are Chicken Gizzards and How Should I Use Them?
Brown sugar substitutes
The Best Substitutes for Brown Sugar
Citrus varieties on dark wood background
Your Guide to the Wonderful World of Citrus
Sliced soppressata and crackers on slate board
What is Soppressata?
Heavy whipping cream and heavy cream substitutes
The Best Substitutes for Heavy Cream
Pizza dough ball on a floured wooden pizza peel
The Best Flours for Homemade Pizza Dough, By Pizza Crust Type
Scoops of flour on a black background and labeled for the ultimate guide to flour.
The Ultimate Guide to Flour: How to Swap, Substitute and Supplement Your Favorite Flours
Chicken Freezer Meal with Chicken Tenders-woman pouring olive oil into a silver skillet
What Oil Should I Use for Cooking?
Pantry Power Our Favorite Everyday Olive Oil
A Guide to Buying Olive Oil
Diamond Crystal and Morton Kosher Salt
How to Swap Morton Kosher Salt for Diamond Crystal, and Vice Versa
What’s the Difference Between Dutch-Process and Natural Cocoa Powder?
Canned tomato types
7 Types of Canned Tomatoes and How to Use Them
Overhead view of apples on a black background for the best apples for fall baking.
Fall Guide to the Best Baking Apples
Live clams fill a bucket during clam season: here's everything you need to know.
How to Buy, Store, and Cook Clams
Two cans of clams and a bottle of clam juice on a table. Canned clams give 'em a try!
How to Cook with Canned Clams
What is Aquafaba and How Do I Use It?
What is Jackfruit? And how can you use it?
What is Jackfruit and How Can You Use It?
Side view of two jars of Soom tahini with a pink linen underneath.
Ingredient Spotlight: Tahini
Red Boat Fish Sauce laid on a towel.
Ingredient Spotlight: Fish Sauce
A bag of Bob's Red Mill Masa Harina and a bag of Maseca Instant Yellow Corn Flour. A measuring cup is filled with corn flour is between the bags.
Ingredient Spotlight: Masa and Masa Harina
Ask the Team Summer Miller
How Do I Substitute Dried Herbs for Fresh?
What Are the Best Egg Substitutes for Baking?
Ask the Team
What is the Best Soy Sauce Substitute?
Baking Soda verses Baking Powder
What's the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder
Slow Cooker Chicken Broth
What's the Difference Between Stock and Broth?
Pinot Noir and a drawing of a plated salmon.
The Best Wine to Pair with Salmon
A dark plate of bing cherries piled in the center to show how to pick cherries.
How to Buy and Store Cherries
Side view of a stack of yellow potatoes on a tray.
How to Buy and Store Potatoes
thick asparagus pile
How to Buy and Store Asparagus
a guide to buying the best mushrooms
How to Buy and Store Mushrooms
Emma Christensen Ask the Team
Do You Need to Wash Mushrooms?
Guide to White Wine
A Guide to White Wine
Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena
A Guide to Balsamic Vinegar
Ask the Team Summer Miller
Is Minced Garlic in a Jar as Good as Fresh?
Jars of salt sel de gris, smoked salt, pink himalyan sea salt and white flaky sea salt
The Simply Recipes Guide to Salt
Three jars of salt spilled onto counter - sel de gris, pink himalyan sea salt and white flaky sea salt
The Simply Recipes Guide to Fancy Salts
Little bowls full of green, black, pink ans szechuan peppercorns
The Simply Recipes Guide to Pepper
Ground pepper and whole peppercorns
Why Use Freshly Ground Pepper?
How to Make Vanilla Extract
Why Is Vanilla Extract So Expensive Right Now?