Janet Taylor McCracken
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The Easiest Way to Make a Tart Shell — No Tart Pan Required
All you need is a cake pan to make easy tart shells with homemade dough or store-bought dough. → Read More
I Tried 4 Popular Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin Recipes and the Winner Is My New Go-To
We put 4 popular lemon poppy seed muffin recipes to the test to see which one was the best. Recipes from The Domestic Rebel, Preppy Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated, and Dorie Greenspan battled it out for the top spot. → Read More
Preppy Kitchen’s Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin Recipe Review
This is one very stunning-looking muffin, worthy of any bakery display. If you are into muffin tops, this recipe delivers, with a nice, golden-brown mound with that crispy overflow around the edges so many of us crave. → Read More
This New Gadget Makes Copycat Starbucks Egg Bites (Only Better)
This $27 machine makes egg bites just like the ones at Starbucks. We tested it out and reported back on how it went. → Read More
We Tried the $7 Gadget That Hard-Boils Eggs Without Their Shells
Can these silicone cookers make perfect hard-boiled eggs with smooth-edged whites? We ran some tests to find out! → Read More
I Tried Every As-Seen-on-TV Egg Gadget — And Actually Really Liked 3 of Them
We tried every As-Seen-on-TV egg gadget that we could get our hands on, and we actually really liked three of them. → Read More
We Tried the $50 Pizza Oven That Amazon Shoppers Are Obsessed With
Amazon shoppers have collectively given this thing a 4.7-star rating and 84 percent of the 4,579 reviewers gave it a whooping 5 stars. Here's what we thought of it. → Read More
I Tried the $18 Nonstick Pan That’s All Over TV — Here’s What I Thought
A nonstick pan that doesn't have Teflon or PFOAs? We ordered one and ran some tests to see if it was truly as nonstick as the infomercial promises. → Read More
We Tried a Dozen of Those Microwave Popcorn Poppers — This Is the One We Liked Best
There are so many different gadgets to help you pop popcorn in the microwave! We tested nearly a dozen of them and this one was the clear winner. → Read More
We Tested Nearly a Dozen Microwave Bacon Cookers — And Actually Really Liked 2 of Them
There a lot of gadgets out there that promise to make perfect bacon in the microwave! We did a deep dive to see if any of them were any good. → Read More
I Rediscovered My Grandma’s Rotary Beater and Now I Use It All the Time
Put down the electric mixer and consider a hand-cranked rotary beater. Here's why one of our food writers has become obsessed with the retro tool. → Read More
This $6 Retro Hard-Boiled Egg Gadget Is Still Totally Useful
If the jammy-ness of your eggs is important to you and you're still really trying to perfect your method, this little gadget just might be able to help you with that. → Read More