Baking soda--more formally known as sodium bicarbonate--has a lot of uses beyond just baking, from cleaning various surfaces, soothing your heartburn, to even browning your meat better. In addition to...
[photo1]Joe Ray9/10A big hunk of my work is testing the kitchen products and cookbooks I review. Words don't write themselves, but I live with the gear I review for weeks or months at a time, scr...
According to gaming database Mobygames, officially licensed versions of Tetris have appeared on roughly 60 different gaming platforms, from the Oculus Quest to the Data Zapper M7000. Now, thanks to a ...
Sometimes, when a new food comes along, I have a jaded reaction. Especially when it's a viral cookie recipe, which is sometimes too mediocre to warrant the hype, if I'm keeping it honest. Popular cook...
Nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit can spend an entire shift waiting for breast milk to defrost so they can prepare bottles for their hungry patients. This can wind up costing hospitals millio...
It's a sad fact of life that pretty often, the better it feels to do something, the worse it is for you--especially when you repeat it so often it falls under the category of "lifestyle choice." Gorgi...
This article features an interview with Krijn de Nood, the CEO and co-founder of cultivated meat startup Meatable. De Nood will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amst...
While we've all been focused on growing a bee-friendly habitat in our gardens by planting pollinator friendly varieties, there's something else that's vital to the health of bees that often goes unmen...
Welcome back to The Grown-Up Kitchen, a segment of Skillet devoted to answering basic kitchen questions. Not every voting-age adult is comfortable slingin' steaks or even heating their frozen pizza. (...
The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn't (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry. Now, a startup that's building technology to serve that sector...
Pickle fans love taking what is supposed to be an accent--a sour and pungent adornment--and forcing it into a main role. We'll try any pickled-flavored snack that comes to market, be it a simple potat...
As a teen and young adult, I drank a lot of full-sugar sodas--Mountain Dew, mostly. One day I decided that I would swap them all out for their diet equivalents, and the resulting loss of calories woul...
I love eggplant, but I don't like futzing with eggplant. I'm not big on soaking, and only salt it half of the time, not because I think I'm too good for all that, but because I'm lazy. Historically, m...
[photo1]By Emily MullinA gene-editing startup wants to help you eat healthier salads. This month, North Carolina-based Pairwise is rolling out a new type of mustard greens engineered to be less bitter...
People trying to shed pounds often cut calories by consuming diet drinks, artificially sweetened treats, and other products containing substitute sugars. But according to a new assessment from the Wor...
If anything could get me to believe in a higher power (and the fact that they have a sense of humor), it's the existence of eggs. They're a perfect food (that we get from the butt region of a mostly f...
Emily Peck[photo1][photo2][photo3][photo4]Keep hearing about the joys of air frying? Providing a faster and healthier way to cook fried foods with little to no oil, an air fryer has become something o...
My great love of olives is led me to create Dirty Martini Fried Chicken. I wanted another way to enjoy olives with chicken, and I didn't care how it happened. So, I turned to alcohol. As fate (or scie...
Citrus season may be over, but lemons and limes persist. Both fruits are widely used to add a little (or a lot) of acid to dishes and drinks, and both, once juiced, leave behind a shell of pith and ze...