Bon Appétit asked 8 of NYC’s top chefs to share their best kitchen tips to help you cook smarter at home. From mastering mise en place to sharpening knives with a whetstone, and using tools like a microplane, thermometer, and food processor–these are the essential chef secrets every home cook should know.
Learn 67 essential kitchen tips with Chef Curtis Stone, from choosing a perfect rib eye to cutting onions, prepping vegetables, shucking oysters, making vinaigrettes, storing truffles, organising your kitchen, and refining knife skills. This chef-driven guide covers beef, seafood, herbs, cheeses, dressings, and everyday techniques to help you cook smarter, cleaner, and more confidently at home with professional results.
Bon Appétit’s Brad Leone is back for episode 64 of It’s Alive, and this time he’s showing you how to sharpen a knife. Brad teaches you how to use a sharpening whetstone and transform your dull knife into a barbershop-ready blade (do not try at home). Tips from an old friend (Bob Kramer!), Gaby tries cosplay, and Chris settles the score: Rambo stropped.
There are twenty six letters in the alphabet and coincidentally there are exactly twenty six cooking tips, no more, no less, that exist in the kitchen. Join Molly, Brad, Gaby, Carla, Priya, Andy, Chris and Amiel in the Test Kitchen as they give you their cooking tips for every letter in the alphabet, from 'A' for artichoke to 'Z' for zest.
Watch your fingers. In this episode, Brad, Molly, Priya, Gaby, Andy, Amiel and Chris put their knife skills to the test in a timed challenge.
The challenge:
1. Mince the garlic
2. Macédoine the sweet potato
3. Julienne the jicama
Which of our beloved Test Kitchen chefs will prevail?
Join Rawlston Williams in his home kitchen as he makes braised goat with dasheen (taro root) and callaloo. The cubed goat is soaked in a mixture of baking soda and water and marinated before braising to make it super tender and flavorful. This goat stew (or soup, if you like) features callaloo, dasheen and okra, but you can sub these out for any comparable vegetables, like green beans or yukon potatoes.
Chef Hillary Sterling shares her restaurant techniques for cooking better vegetables. Learn how to cook restaurant-quality vegetables at home, from salt-baked zucchini and eggplant to garlicky sautéed spinach, olive oil-poached artichokes, and perfectly blanched asparagus, broccoli, and peas. These professional cooking tips improve flavor, texture, color, and more, making vegetables the star of the show.
Ever wondered what knives top chefs swear by? Bon Appétit asked 10 of NYC’s best chefs to share the knives they can’t live without–from Japanese gyuto and bunka knives to German knives, carbon steel blades, petty knives, honosuki poultry knives, and essential serrated bread knives. Learn the difference between Japanese vs Western knives, carbon steel vs stainless steel, how blade shape affects control, and which knives are best for home cooks.
Join Andy Baraghani in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes braised short ribs with squash and chile. Make this when it’s Sunday and you’re not leaving the house. One spoonful of this smoky-spicy guajillo braising liquid and you’ll understand how complex dried chiles can be.
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From the Test Kitchen host Alison Roman teaches you how to make flavorful red wine-braised short ribs with a golden brown crust that will excite your taste buds. This mouth-watering recipe will impress even the most hard to please foodies and keep them coming back for more.
Contributing food editor Alison Roman shares her technique for any braised meat. A quick sear before roasting adds flavor to the final product and a simple ragu makes the pork ribs into a meal.
Simple, quick, but not boring. With this combo of briny clams and a garlic breadcrumb mixture, look for an artisanal dried pasta—the rougher surface texture will catch the slippery sauce better. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
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Sharpen your knives and get ready for some expert instruction on an essential kitchen task - cutting onions. Bon Appétit associate food editor Rachel Gurjar demonstrates everything you need to know in order to mince, slice, and dice onions like a professional chef. No matter what your next recipe demands, Rachel’s guidance will help you prep your onions perfectly.
Bon Appétit’s Jesse Szewczyk shows how to get the most out of your oven with three sheet pan dinners designed for every rack. Learn how to use the bottom rack for crispy, oven-fried chicken parm, the middle rack for perfectly roasted gnocchi with sausage and broccoli rabe, and the broiler for smoky, charred shawarma-spiced chicken. Use Jesse’s tips and techniques to unlock your oven’s full potential and make your weeknights a little easier.
Feeling inspired? You can follow these recipes here:
Chicken Parm: https://slim-weight.today/recipe/a-really-big-chicken-parm
Sheet Pan Gnocchi: https://slim-weight.today/recipe/sheet-pan-gnocchi-spicy-sausage-broccoli-rabe?_sp=36d48b46-a52f-431b-9818-bb9820bd4945.1786372123359
Chicken Shawarma: https://slim-weight.today/recipe/sheet-pan-shawarma-spiced-chicken
Discover more of Chef Skylar's recipes here: https://diningwithskyler.com/
The key to success in this recipe is time. Don’t try and rush the brisket by turning up the heat—that will only dry it out and make it tougher. Let it go low and slow until the meat is shreddable, and if you’re not sure if it’s ready, let it go a bit longer.
