Kitchen Tips & How-Tos

The warm setting is handy for potlucks and late dinners, but it isn’t meant to hold food forever. Here’s how to use it safely.

Baked-on rings and stuck food in a slow cooker crock can look impossible. Here’s an easy way to loosen it without scrubbing.

Added too much salt to the soup? Before you pour it out, try these simple fixes that really work.

Cooking bacon in the oven means no grease splatter, no standing over the stove, and perfectly flat strips. Here’s how.

Leftover rice is handy, but it needs a little more care than most leftovers. Here’s how long it keeps and how to store it safely.

It’s tempting to peek, stir and taste. But lifting the slow cooker lid has a bigger effect than most people think.

No buttermilk for biscuits or pancakes? You can make a substitute in five minutes with milk and something from your pantry.

If your pot roast is chewy instead of fall-apart tender, it’s usually not the recipe. Here’s what’s really going on and how to fix it.

You bite into a piece of aged cheddar or Parmesan and hit tiny crunchy white bits. Here’s what they are, why they’re a good sign, and how to tell them apart from mold.

A potato with green patches under the skin looks odd, and it’s worth paying attention to. Here’s what the green means and when to cut it off or toss the potato.