​However, the kettle sort of shakes as it warms up, and presets, as opposed to by-degree temperature control, can be a little arbitrary—not every green tea needs to be brewed at the recommended 175° F. The OXO kettle, as well as some others, offers better control over the temperature settings.. Breville Crystal Clear Electric Kettle. Breville. Crystal Clear Kettle. $110 $100 (9% off). Amazon. Breville makes a lot of really impressive small appliances for the kitchen, and in our testing, the brand’s Crystal Clear Electric Kettle boiled water as fast as the OXO. We enjoyed watching it reach a rolling boil through that crystal clear glass, too. But this kettle has some limitations that kept it far from the top spot. There’s no keep-warm function, so as soon as it reaches a boil, it shuts off. There are also no temperature settings—when you turn it on, it boils the water, shuts off, and that’s all she wrote. At the time of publishing, the clear glass OXO electric kettle is practically the same price and has far more features.. Amazon Basics Electric Kettle. Amazon Basics. Electric Kettle. $21. Amazon. Amazon’s house brand offers a selection of good-enough, affordable kitchen gear that gets the job done. True to its name, this Amazon Basics electric kettle is very basic, but it boils water quickly, and a blue light will turn off when the kettle does, so you know it has reached the boiling point and has shut off (there’s no keep warm function). The 1-liter capacity might be a little limiting for some home cooks, and the opening is somewhat small, but if you just need something that will boil water quickly and you’re on a budget, this is a decent option at a very accessible price.. Zwilling Enfinigy Cool Touch Kettle Pro. Zwilling. Enfinigy 1L Cool Touch Kettle Pro. $100 $90 (10% off). Amazon. $130. Williams Sonoma. $130. ZWILLING. We love the look of Zwilling’s Enfinigy line, which includes toasters, coffee makers, blenders, scales, grinders, and other gadgets and appliances. Many perform really well in the kitchen too, including the Cool Touch Kettle Pro. This electric tea kettle is quiet, easy to clean, and in our testing it boiled water quickly and demonstrated precise temperature control. There are six presets—including one for warming baby bottles—plus a keep-warm function. The outside is also cool to the touch, even with boiling water inside.. Hamilton Beach Glass Electric Kettle. Hamilton Beach. 1.7L Electric Tea Kettle. $51. Amazon. Hamilton Beach makes a range of pretty good, pretty cheap small appliances for the kitchen, including coffee gear, and this Glass Electric Kettle is one of them. Hamilton Beach’s kettle has some great-to-have features, including six presets for different teas, French-press coffee, hot cocoa, and of course, boil. It also has an automatic keep-warm function that will hold the water at the target temperature for up to 30 minutes, and boil-dry protection senses when the kettle is empty and will autom  

​The appliance also comes with a cork trivet, a lid holder, and a Y-shaped wood tool that’s perfect for scraping food from the edges of the pot.. How is it different from a regular slow cooker?. The Magnifique cooker is made from kaolin clay, which traps heat efficiently, resulting in faster slow-cooking (something of an oxymoron, but you get the idea). The kaolin clay pot is super durable, ranking 8.5 on the Mohs’ scale, the standard measurement of mineral hardness. (For reference, diamonds are a 10; glazed aluminum cookware ranks at 2.5.) It’s free of plastic and PFAS and is naturally nonstick.. Magnifique claims that this is the only slow cooker on the market made from 100% clay, though the existence of other products, such as the Vitaclay, challenge that assertion. And while many slow cookers now offer coated aluminum or stainless steel pots, the original Crock-Pot slow cooker that took over American kitchens in the 1970s featured a ceramic crock similar to Magnifique’s. Indeed, even today, the Crock-Pot brand still produces many slow-cooker products with removable oven-safe stoneware crocks. Unlike Magnifique’s completely clay pot, however, these stoneware crocks are glazed in a silicate made of a blend of quartz, feldspar, and clay. According to Crock-Pot’s brand site, the FDA specifies allowable amounts of lead, cadmium, and other substances, and its products meet or exceed those FDA requirements. According to Magnifique, because it exclusively uses kaolin clay for the pot and glaze, it does not contain traces of heavy metals. Do with that information as you will.. The more significant design differences that set the Magnifique apart from the Crock-Pot are the Magnifique’s oven-safe clay lid (opposed to the glass and plastic Crock-Pot lid) and its Sear/Sauté setting, which the Crock-Pot lacks. Other slow cookers currently available like the Cuisinart Cook Central, do have a Sauté/Browning setting.. What I cooked using the Magnifique Claypot Multicooker. Over the course of a few weeks, I made various things in the Magnifique Claypot Multicooker with the goal of testing all its different capabilities.. Stew. I started with a classic red wine beef stew recipe, a veritable slow cooker classic. Since the beef needs to be seared to build a good base flavor, I’d typically use my Dutch oven instead of a slow cooker or Instant Pot to make this because the appliances often don’t get hot enough to properly brown the beef, but I was pleasantly surprised by the Magnifique’s browning capability. The beef chunks took on a good amount of color and built up a nice fond on the bottom of the pot before the liquid went in.. The beef seared nicely on the Multicooker’s Sear/Sauté function. Callie Sumlin. True to its promise for faster slow-cooking, the beef was incredibly tender after three hours at the low setting.  

​Welcome to Open Tab, a weekly roundup of news, gossip, and stories that have stayed open in my tabs all week. Last week we covered rumors of cat killing and various other scandals at Horses.. When explorers in the days of yore set out to discover colonize new lands, they loaded up their boats with hardtack, salted meat, and peas. They suffered from scurvy and sickness, and their diet was distinctly unglamorous. Space explorers of today have it much better, even as the food preservation challenges have gotten tougher. This week, the Artemis II mission began. It’s the first crewed mission to orbit the moon since 1972. Launching with them? Five distinct hot sauces, tortillas, an ominously named “vanilla breakfast drink,” and many other comestibles.. Also this week, we’re chatting about the lawsuit (or lack thereof) against David Protein, what wholesale food distributor Sysco’s immense new acquisition might mean for restaurants, and spice company Burlap & Barrel’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. But before all that: Please note that Reese’s has committed to changing its recipe back to the original after sustained public outcry—including in this column. Do you think this is a direct result of my focused, public complaining? Hard to say!. On the evening of April 1, Artemis II launched from Florida. That launch came after much preparation, including extensive plans around the crew’s menu. According to NASA, the crew had a lot of say on the menu for the 10-day journey. “Crew members sample, evaluate, and rate all foods on the standard menu during preflight testing, and their preferences are balanced with nutritional requirements and what [the spacecraft] can accommodate,” according to the NASA website.. There are five hot sauces aboard, as well as “spicy green beans,” “barbecued beef brisket,” and something called “pineapple drink.” All told, there are 189 unique menu items, all of which are designed and packaged to be optimized for space. Good luck to the astronauts, and hopefully they enjoy their 58 tortillas, no more, no less.. This deal is important. Sysco, the country’s largest provider of food and other goods to restaurants and other food service providers, acquired Restaurant Depot, another massive supplier that mostly serves independent restaurants, for $29.1 billion. This isn’t just another merger—it’s two restaurant supplier colossi becoming one in a deal that will likely be scrutinized for antitrust issues.. Put simply, if this deal does indeed go through in 2027, it would be pretty calamitous for the small, independent restaurants we love. Namely, the cost of their food will probably increase, making their margins even tighter or forcing them to pass on that cost to the diner. Personally, I can’t afford a $55 roast chicken, and I don’t want my favorite spots to close down—should we all write to our congresspeople or something?. A few weeks ago, a class action lawsuit was brought agains  

​Hosted during a store’s regular hours, Late Night Madness initially launched as a way to appeal to a younger, more experience-inclined clientele. It has slowly spread to other Seafood City locations across California and the West, including Nevada; Sugar Land, Texas; Canada, and, most recently, Chicago.. Oversaturation in the nightlife scene, low pay, and “horror stories” of feeling unsafe in clubs inspired Breganza to think outside the box for opportunities. Seafood City, he says, trusted his interpretation of how a Filipino American party would look.. “If you’ve been around Filipino culture, we know how to make something out of nothing and party anywhere, at any time, to celebrate with each other,” he says. “I play to honor the way I felt at those house parties, but I want to touch every generation. It’s a very cultural event, that’s what sets it apart. But you don’t have to be Filipino to join in.”. In true pop-up fashion, these parties aren’t dictated (or deterred) by the size of the produce section or checkout counter.. Photo by Angel Montalvo for Tequila Cazadores. MUNDO Soundsystem, a trio of DJs Guari, Rich Pascasio, and Flako (the latter known as Dos Flakos), transform bodegas in the Bronx, redefining nightlife with culturally driven raves.. At MUNDO, it’s crowded, it’s hot, it’s sweaty. As the bass thumps, the cooks behind the deli counter make slinging chopped cheeses “look like hibachi,” Flako says.. The Bronx natives say popping up in the bodega was the natural choice. After recognizing many neighborhood faces at their regular gigs in Brooklyn and Manhattan, the trio says they realized there was a lack of party venues uptown and in the Bronx. “The bodega is the nucleus of the community,” says DJ Guari says. “You can buy anything, you mingle with different people, you end up talking, you get comfortable. You’re at home, there’s no separation from your people.”  

​It’s no secret that Bon Appétit editors cook a lot for work. So it should come as no surprise that we cook a lot during our off hours too. Here are the recipes we’re whipping up this month to get dinner on the table, entertain our friends, satisfy a sweet tooth, use up leftovers, and everything in between. For even more staff favorites, click here.. Lemony broccoli pasta. One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is a bowl of buttered noodles bulked up with broccoli. Delicious in its most simple form, but now I have a new favorite version from my coworker Rebecca Firkser. She jazzes it up with umami-packed anchovies, loads of garlic, and bright lemon. The citrus here is used in its entirety, skin, pith, flesh, and all. It imbues the pasta with a wonderful freshness that’s far more exciting than the pared-back version I’m used to. —Jesse Szewczyk, senior Test Kitchen editor. Smashed Broccoli Pasta. A feel-good dinner designed to cram a ton of veg in each serving.. View Recipe. Comforting boy kibble. This time of year, I’m eating out a lot, zigzagging across the country to scout for our Best New Restaurants. When I returned home from my most recent trip, I couldn’t wait to eat a home-cooked meal. I love making a variation on this Smashed Beef Kebab with Cucumber Yogurt from former BA staffer Zaynab Issa. Call it boy kibble if you’d like! The meat is seasoned with earthy turmeric and hard-seared over high heat. It’s easy to make and endlessly adaptable. I’ve used ground beef, lamb, bison (one of my favorites)—they all work. Served with a bed of fluffy rice, it made a delightful welcome back dinner. —Kate Kassin, editorial operations manager. A strong salad craving. Like clockwork, as soon as the weather warms, I crave salads. Crispy Smashed Potatoes and Chickpeas With Greek Salad always fit the bill. This week, I didn’t have tiny potatoes or chickpeas, so I opted for one big ole russet. After boiling potato chunks until tender, I spread them onto my air-fryer tray, smashed them with the back of a cup, drizzled them with olive oil, a sprinkle of salt, and air-fried until golden brown. I swooshed an herby yogurt dressing (lactose-free for me) in a bowl, then piled on cherry tomatoes, Persian cucumbers, red onion, and finally, the shatteringly crisp potatoes. A scattering of toasted pine nuts and crumbled Bulgarian feta to finish. Perfection. —Abi Lieff, assistant to the editor in chief. Crispy Smashed Potatoes and Chickpeas with Greek Salad. Crispy chickpeas and smashed potatoes share the plate with lemon-juiced onions, tomatoes, and olives, all balanced by a creamy spread of yogurt. Brought to life with Greek Seasoning, made with oregano, garlic, cinnamon, peppermint, dill, nutmeg, red pepper, and chives. It turns your favorite staples, like potatoes, into flavorful masterpieces.. View Recipe. Loaded salad pizza. I am not a Trader Joe’s regular; I go maybe three or four times a year. When I do make the trip, it’s for