The Best of Online Cooking Sites
Your information is only as good as your source.
Say you’re on the hunt for a particular recipe. You log-on, Google the recipe and click on the first link you find. You print out the recipe, and try to follow it. In the end, you’re as confused as when you began.
The Portsmouth Herald rated cooking sites according to how helpful they are to the home cook. “The sites are rated on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best, and listed in order of tops to the pits.”
Topping the list is: www.pbs.org/juliachild with a rating of 4.75.
Next come:
www.cooksillustrated.com – 4.75
www.about.com/food – 4.5
www.foodtv.com/food/cooking – 4.25
www.epicurious.com/cooking/ – 4
www.marthastewart.com – 3.25
To see why these sites were rated the way they did, click here.
Some quick tips from the article:
Oil hands before handling hot chile peppers; scrape gingerroot with a spoon to peel it.
Adapt the old trick for softening brown sugar to softening hardened almond paste: Place the paste in an airtight plastic bag along with a slice of bread for a couple of days.
To keep cauliflower snowy as it cooks, add 2 tablespoons lemon juice or white vinegar to the cooking water.
Freeze softer cheeses briefly (up to 20 minutes) before grating.
Use an office vertical sorter to store small cutting boards on the countertop.
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