Patel

So here’s your situation: You’ve got a cooler full of cans, you’ve got a big hunk of ice keeping them cold, and you want to know, without tipping out the trickle of melt water, how many beers you’re holding. Enter physics, and goodbye intuition. The force acting on your scale isn’t just the weight of … Read more

When making spaghetti and meatballs from scratch, the kitchen counter quickly turn into chaos. There’s a pot of simmering sauce. Pasta water splatters everywhere. There’s a bowl of raw meat waiting to be shaped into ball. In all that action, there’s a crucial question that gets overlooked. How many calories are on your plate? Why … Read more

When tracking macros, you get antsy for something besides boiled vegetables, but you also want it to taste like something. This is where lemons come in. Squeeze a wedge into some water, and it tastes bright and doesn’t cause a sugar crash. But there’s more to it than a squeeze. It is more than just … Read more

Is it a small oven? Is it an oven you can cook things quickly in? No. An air fryer is a convection oven with an incredibly strong fan. That means you’re dealing with all three: heat, moisture, and airflow in a tiny amount of space. Unlike your primary range, which require less attention, an air … Read more

There’s nothing worse then being at your wit’s end with an unbrined turkey on your hands. You’ve got all the necesary ingredients; you’ve even got the bird. What do you do? The usual wisdom found online leave you confused. “A cup.” “A handful.” “Some salt.” This is no help. Volume is relative. A cup of … Read more

Most of us treat chicken broth like flavoring agent rather than a food. It’s the stuff that goes on top of noodles, or reduced down into gravy. And then, because you’re adding veggies and noodles too, you figure it must be fine. This works when you’re making a meal quickly. But when you want to … Read more

It’s easy to see buying a quarter of a cow as some sort of party trick, suddenly you have all this meat to last your neighborhood a month. It fills your freezer quickly, but where the real benefit come in is thinking about burgers. Burgers is a useful equalizer because they transform odd-shaped pieces, trim, … Read more

It’s the sound of a soy sauce cap coming off. Snap! Then a black drop of the salty stuff fall into its own little bowl. You grab some sushi between your chopsticks and dunk it without knowing that one bite will deliver almost a third of your day‘s worth of sodium. Maybe you use soy … Read more

Snacking on tortilla chips can get tricky. Unless you know exactly how many you’re eating, it’s easy to forget about these carbohydrates that builds up between crumbly bite of chips. Use the calculator to take guesswork out of your snacking, so you can have confidence in your decision when enjoying a snack. Different kinds of … Read more

But what if you purchase a 3lb chuck roast and don’t know where to start? How many minutes do I puts this thing on high for? Too many times we guess and end up with overdone or underdone meals. Once you input the weight of your cut, the thickness measurement, and your texture goal, calculator … Read more