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Explore cooking basics include DIY techniques and tutorials to build your confidence in the kitchen. Here you’ll find tips and tricks for everything from how to cut a pomegranate to how to cook crab legs!

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Closeup of white pomelo fruit

Pomelo Fruit

Perfectly cooked spare ribs with the bone sticking out a half-inch from the meat

How Long to Cook Ribs in the Oven

Serving of portion-size baked salmon fillet with a side salad on a serving plate with a lemon wedge

How Long to Bake Salmon in Oven

Yellow dragon fruit flesh cut into chunks and served in the skin

Yellow Dragon Fruit

Crispy baked chicken wings on a serving platter with carrots, celery and ranch dip

How Long to Bake Chicken Wings

Checking whether cream cheese is softened using the back of a spoon

How to Soften Cream Cheese (4 Best Ways to Soften Cream Cheese)

One Pan Baked Chicken With Potatoes, Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes - Tender and juicy chicken breasts baked with vegetables in a sheet pan. A quick and healthy dinner that's super easy to make. It takes only about 30 minutes. Quick and Easy Dinner, healthy, Sheet Pan recipe.

How Long to Bake Chicken

Doubanjiang is a Chinese bean paste with savory and sometimes spicy accents that makes many popular Chinese stir-fry recipes. Learn about the different types of Doubanjiang, how to use it, recommended brands, substitutes and more!

Doubanjiang (Spicy Chili Bean Paste)

The best types of steak are tender, juicy and well-marbled.

12 Different Types of Steak

Cooked chicken breast on a sheet pan after being baked with vegetables

How Long Does Cooked Chicken Last in the Fridge?

Learn how long to bake pork chops to crispy, golden perfection whether you are using boneless or bone in pork chops

How Long to Bake Pork Chops

Perfectly broiled steak served with potatoes and broccoli on a serving plate with a sprig of rosemary for garnish.

How to Broil Steak in the Oven

Comparison of different boiled potatoes with their corresponding boiling times to make it easy to determine how long to boil potatoes.

How Long to Boil Potatoes

This quick 3-ingredient homemade mirin works perfectly as a substitute for teriyaki and other recipes calling for mirin. All you need is sake, sugar and water to make it.

What is Mirin and Mirin Substitutes

Bone in ham cooked to perfection

How Long to Cook a Ham

Learn how long to cook a turkey and get a perfectly cooked bird for your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner! The rule of thumb is 15 minutes per pound, but turkey cooking time also depends on oven temperature, whether it’s stuffed or unstuffed, and thawed vs. frozen.

How Long to Cook A Turkey

Hard Boiled Eggs in the Microwave

Cooked shrimp with tails on

How Long Does Shrimp Last in the Fridge?

There’s no denying that a homemade burger hits different. When you have full control over the seasoning and grilling, you can make it just the way you like it. The trick is knowing how long to grill burgers to get your desired doneness.

How Long to Grill Burgers

A fillet of baked sockeye salmon

Salmon Cook Temp

Chuck roast cooked in the oven at 350

How Long to Cook Chuck Roast in Oven at 350

out the chicken to thaw and completely forgot about it. Should you throw it out or is it still safe to cook? Or how about those leftovers from lunch? Can they be eaten for dinner if they weren’t kept in the fridge for a couple of hours?

How Long Can Chicken Sit Out

How to Tell If A Cantaloupe is Ripe

How Long to Microwave a Potato