Meat and Potatoes

• recipe

  Smashed Potatoes

  When there's no gravy and the potatoes have to stand on their own, lots of home cooks "smash" them. But good smashed potatoes are hard to find.

• recipe

  Onion-Braised Beef Brisket

  When this notoriously tough cut finally turns tender, it's often dry as a bone. Could we have our brisket both ways?

• equipment

  Electric Knives

  Electric knives might seem like relics of the 1960s, but we wanted to see if these knives had any place in the modern kitchen.