Get your knives professionally sharpened! You may have a steel or a sharpener at home, but once a year, get a pro to revive those knives. Your chopping will get faster, more precise—and, believe it or not, safer.
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Buy a better ice cube tray! The ice cubes that come out of the dispenser in your fridge? They’re watering down your cocktails. Cubes made in silicone ice trays are denser and keep your Bourbon cold for hours (or, you know, however long it lasts).
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Master the quick-pickle! Whisk a little salt and sugar into some white vinegar. Pour over thinly sliced raw vegetables. Wait 20 minutes. Eat.
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Write in your cookbooks! Could soup have used more tomato? Chicken needed ten more minutes in the oven? Make a note of it and you’ll never make that mistake again.
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Treat your herbs like flowers. There’s nothing worse than limp herbs. Next time, trim the stems and put the parsley in a glass of water, fit a plastic bag over it, and stash it in the refrigerator.
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Buy an instant-read digital meat thermometer! The quickest way to ruin a perfectly marbled $25 steak? Cutting into it to figure out if it’s medium rare.
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Reduce the heat of chiles by removing the seeds. Make four straight cuts down the sides. This will create four long slivers, and the cluster of seeds will remain in the center of the chile. The result will be less heat and more great flavor.
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