Five knife habits that actually save time on a weeknight
We timed ourselves prepping the same dinner before and after changing five habits. The two that saved the most time had nothing to do with fancy cuts.
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Vegetables
Seasonal produce, roasting, salads and how to make vegetables the part of dinner people fight over.
The tomato salad that taught us when to salt
Salt a sliced tomato 20 minutes ahead and it makes its own dressing. We tested four timings to find the window, then built a late-summer salad around it.
We roasted the same potatoes five ways. Here's what makes them crisp.
Raw, parboiled, roughed up, alkaline water and preheated fat: a side-by-side test of the steps in every roast potato recipe, and which ones matter.