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Featured recipes
MainsRestaurant Secret Fried Rice
The wok secrets restaurants don't want you to know — crispy, smoky, perfectly seasoned fried rice at home.
MainsMongolian Beef (Better Than Takeout)
Crispy-edged flank steak in a glossy soy–brown sugar sauce with a pile of green onions. Faster than delivery.
MainsThai Basil Beef (Pad Kra Pao)
Spicy, garlicky ground beef with Thai basil over jasmine rice, topped with a crispy fried egg. 20 minutes, one pan.
MainsGarlic Butter Roasted Lobster Tails
Butterflied lobster tails roasted in garlic-herb butter with asparagus and charred lemon. A special-occasion dinner in 25 minutes.
MainsNY-Style Pizza in Under 2 Hours
A thin, foldable, crisp-bottomed New York slice from a same-day dough. No overnight rise required.
SidesPD's Addicting Cornbread Casserole
Sweet-savory cornbread casserole baked in cast iron — creamed corn, sour cream and cheddar. Five minutes to mix, and it disappears at every party.
Gear & tech reviews
Appliances 4.5Cusimax Smokeless Indoor Grill
Korean BBQ on the kitchen counter with almost no smoke. My most-watched video, and the grill still earns its spot.
Grill gear 4.0Pit Boss Austin XL Heat Diffuser
A slotted plate that evens out the hot spots on the Austin XL pellet grill. I tested it with a grate full of tortillas.
Cookware 5.014-Inch Carbon Steel Wok
The one pan behind every stir-fry on this site. Cheap, light, and it gets hotter than anything else in the kitchen.
Cookware 4.510-Inch Cast Iron Skillet
Cornbread casserole, deep dish, smash burgers, stroganoff. If it needs a crust, it goes in cast iron.
Tools 4.5Instant-Read Meat Thermometer
Stop guessing on lobster, steak and fry oil. A two-second readout is the difference between perfect and overcooked.
Cookware 4.0Baking Steel for Home-Oven Pizza
The reason the NY-style pizza on this site has a crisp, leopard-spotted bottom from a regular home oven.
Latest videos
My New Smokeless Indoor Grill! It's Amazing!
Korean BBQ indoors with no smoke alarm. Full test of the grill I now use every week.
St Augustine Fishing Trip
Charter trip with Capt Derringer out of St Augustine, Florida.
Mongolian Beef — Better Than Takeout
Crispy beef, sticky sauce, green onions. Start to finish in one wok.
Giant Live Lobsters for the Birthday Girl!
Birthday dinner, two very large lobsters, and one curious poodle.
Pit Boss Austin XL Heat Diffuser
Diffuser set horizontally, windows front to back, 350°F. Tortillas flipped after 5 minutes — see the difference.
Fried Monster Squid
One very large squid, breaded and fried. Scary looking, tastes great.
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