Liv Dansky has worked for Food & Wine since 2019 as a recipe tester and developer and, more recently, as a writer. Her work can be found across brands like Southern Living, Real Simple, EatingWell, ...

Every year I tell myself I won’t buy the usual flowers or candles for Mother’s Day. If your mom is anything like mine, the thing she actually loves is being in the kitchen — trying new recipes, baking ...

When I was a professional baker, I often had to grate pounds of carrots by hand for cake when the food processor was broken, or after the grating plate insert went missing. Although tiny, I built some ...

I can grate Parmigiano Reggiano and other hard cheeses on my trusty, easy-to-clean microplane until the cows come home. But there’s a reason I prefer to buy soft cheeses like mozzarella pre-shredded: ...

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Expert chefs tend to have a strong attachment to their kitchen tools and cookware. While they don’t always agree on which products and brands are best, there are a few items that seem to be stocked in ...

Which cheese graters are best? Grating cheese doesn’t have to be the task nobody wants to do. Finding a cheese grater ergonomically designed to suit you will change your kitchen experience. A cheese ...

Home cooks have stocked their kitchen drawers with Microplane graters and zesters for 30 years. These sharp, dependable tools come in a variety of shapes and sizes — rasps, paddle-style, rotary, box ...

After a decade of resisting, I finally bought a Microplane grater – it was on sale because a kitchenware shop was shutting down, and I can never give up a good deal. For the uninitiated, the ...

Grating your own cheese may seem like an unnecessary task. I mean, that’s why you can get it pre-shredded, right? Pre-shredded cheese might seem convenient, but it comes with a catch: Most are coated ...

I don’t think I could go a week without using my grater. But by “using my grater,” I mean what most of us mean: using the one, coarse grating side that’s perfect for shredding Cheddar. When I’m making ...