Vegetables
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.
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Kitchen tests
Side-by-side experiments where we change one variable at a time and report what happened.
Kitchen tests
How salty should pasta water be? We measured four pots.
Forget 'salty as the sea.' We cooked spaghetti at four salt levels, weighed everything and found the range that seasons pasta without ruining the sauce.
Kitchen tests
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.