Homemade Chiles rellenos dinner
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How to Make Homemade Chiles Rellenos: Recipe and Critical Temps

One of the most popular dishes at Mexican restaurants everywhere, chiles rellenos (ray-YAY-nohs) are an indisputable crossover classic. A true traditional dish from the culinary wonderland that is Puebla, Mexico, the dish has reached well into the hearts of Americans, as well. A roasted chili, stuffed (often with cheese, but we’ll talk more about that),…

Crispy skillet chicken thighs

Chicken Breasts vs Chicken Thighs: A Thermal Explanation

If there’s one meat Americans love, it’s chicken. We eat nearly as much chicken each year as beef and pork combined. But despite our affinity for this fowl, Americans are often eating dry, chewy, chalky chicken. Part of the reason why this happens so much is that most home cooks don’t understand when to use…

Lechon Liempo: Perfect Filipino Crispy Stuffed Pork Belly
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Lechon Liempo: Perfect Filipino Crispy Stuffed Pork Belly

Have we got a treat for you today! This method for savory, tender, juicy, meaty, flavorful, crisp-skinned pork belly, rolled and cooked to mouth-watering perfection comes to us from the Philippines, and is one of the tastiest things we’ve cooked in our demo kitchen in some time—which is saying something. Lechon Liempo, a beautiful Filipino…

A pile of homemade hotdogs
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Homemade Hotdogs: So Tasty, and Temperature-perfect

Hotdogs are perhaps the most quintessentially American food. Sausages of all sorts made their way here with immigrants from all cultures and were then changed, re-tuned, and altered to cope with new ingredients and fit the needs of American eaters and their increasingly unique palate. One of those sausages eventually begat the hotdog. Deeply entrenched…

BBQ'd Beef short ribs
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Harry Soo’s Butter-Cola BBQ Beef Short Ribs

There’s nothing quite like beef short ribs. The unique flavor of the meat is halfway between a brisket and a steak, and their tender juiciness is beyond compare—at least, it is when you cook them correctly! We were happy to have Harry Soo, one of the world’s great BBQ personalities and championship-winning talent behind Slap…