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Your Coffee Is Only As Good as Your Grinder. Here Are the 6 Best
Compare Our Top 6 Grinders More Excellent Grinders Conical-burr all-rounders: Baratza Encore for $150: Baratza’s original Encore is the Honda of the conical burr grinder world: easy to maintain, runs great, easy to use, lasts forever, replacement parts are easy to find. It’s been on the market largely unchanged for more than a decade. For…
You Probably Don’t Need to Drink Electrolyte Water Every Day
Wellness marketing is a little out of control, and electrolytes are as buzzy as it gets. Touted by influencers and podcasters as a miracle supplement that helps your body perform at its peak, electrolyte beverages are as numerous as they are readily available. But the dietitians and nutritionists I spoke with are less willing to…
Lord, I’ve Eaten So Many Meal Kits. These Are the Best Ones
More Meal Kits We Liked Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Sunbasket ($12-$14 per serving): Sunbasket is a plan that focuses heavily on fresh, organic ingredients, and offers a whole lot of variety and good cooking techniques, including deglazing and attentiveness to saucing. And like Hungryroot, it also offers breakfasts and snacks to supplement meal options with little…
We Made More than a Thousand Pizzas to Find the Best Pizza Ovens
Who We Are and How We Tested AccordionItemContainerButton WIRED reviewer Adrienne So has tested many pizza ovens and made more than a thousand pizzas over the past seven years. WIRED reviewer Matthew Korfhage is a longtime food writer who’s written about pizza on both coasts over 15 years, from sausage slices in Portland to the…
Amazon Prime Day kitchen deals: It’s the last day to get up to 50 percent off air fryers, Instant Pots, blenders and more
You’ve still got a few more hours to shop Amazon’s July Prime sale. There’s still time for Prime Members to take advantage of deals on kitchen tech. We have quite a few food-enthusiasts on staff at Engadget, and most of us have tried out at least a few cooking gadgets, all in the name of…
WIRED Tested Dozens of Espresso Machines. These Are the 8 Best
How We Tested Espresso Machines AccordionItemContainerButton Over the past decade, WIRED has tested dozens of espresso makers to find our favorites. The process, in part, is simple. We brew a whole lot of coffee. I’ve written about coffee for more than a decade on both the East and West Coasts, including my hometown coffee mecca…
Never Drink Alone: A Guide to Turkish Coffee
Out of all caffeinated rituals, Turkish coffee takes the (coffee) cake. That’s because, according to some experts, Turkish coffee isn’t a type of coffee—it’s a cooking method. Commonly seen across Middle Eastern cultures, the beverage looks and acts similar to espresso, served in a small cup and tasting very rich yet very different. Turkish coffee…
The Best Chef’s Knives to Chop Anything in the Kitchen
Not all knives are created equal, and a chef’s knife is given that name for a reason. Like the proverbial dog to man, a chef needs their knife. Arguably the most important multipurpose tool you can find in a kitchen, it’s the chef’s main weapon—it can slice, dice, and chop ingredients with speed and precision….