Buying guides and reviews
Home & Kitchen, Kitchen Appliances, Range Hoods
After spending three months researching kitchen ventilation for my own kitchen remodel, I discovered that finding the right 48-inch range hood is more complex than most buyers expe…
Home & Kitchen, Buying Guides, Product Reviews
A good stock pot is the workhorse of any kitchen. Whether you’re simmering homemade chicken stock for hours, boiling pasta for a family dinner, or preparing soup for the week ahead…
Home & Kitchen, Buying Guides
There is nothing quite like the ritual of brewing tea in a vessel that keeps your drink hot for hours. I have spent years testing different tea kettles, and cast iron consistently…
Home & Kitchen, Buying Guides
I spent six months replacing my metal cookware with glass pots after learning about chemical leaching from nonstick coatings. The transition wasn’t perfect. I cracked two pots from…
Home & Kitchen, Gift Guides, Gift Ideas
There’s nothing quite like watching someone walk into their new home for the first time. The excitement, the possibilities, the slight overwhelm of boxes everywhere. I’ve been to d…
Home & Kitchen, Product Reviews
The right refrigerator transforms a man cave from a basic hangout spot into the ultimate entertainment destination. After researching 45+ models and analyzing customer feedback fro…
Buying Guides, Home & Kitchen
When I started researching kitchen equipment safety five years ago, mixing bowls weren’t even on my radar. Like most home cooks, I grabbed whatever colorful plastic set caught my e…
Home & Kitchen, Kitchen Organization
After watching three different dish racks rust out within two years in my own kitchen, I decided to get serious about finding something that would actually last. I spent six weeks…
Cleaning Supplies, Home & Kitchen, Kitchen Linens
Nothing ruins a kitchen experience quite like grabbing a sour-smelling washcloth to wipe up a spill. That distinctive odor comes from bacteria thriving in damp fabric, and once it…
Buying Guides, Cleaning Supplies, Home & Kitchen
Cheap spray bottles from the dollar store drive me crazy. I have lost count of how many trigger mechanisms failed after a week or nozzles started dripping onto my freshly cleaned s…