Infuse your baked goods with this water’s citrusy essence.

This North Indian spice enhances acidity without adding moisture.

Learn the proper way to use this versatile kitchen tool to create pestos, spice pastes, finely ground spices, and more.

We made our way through more than 250 dried chiles while developing a recipe and learned a few tips along the way.

Whether you use Mediterranean or Mexican oregano can impact a recipe's taste.

Plus how to include it in your next batch of baked goods.

Have you ever noticed that foods served either hot or chilled need to be seasoned with salt more than room-temperature foods? We delved into the topic.

After a week of being stored in it, our freshly ground five-spice powder melted a plastic container. Here's why.

In the test kitchen, we most often reach for a lemon when we want to brighten a dish’s flavor, but there’s another way: Simply add some of the lemony spice know…

We know that, contrary to popular belief, marinades do most of their work on the surface of meat and poultry.

While salt and pepper are always a consideration for final tweaks, our test cooks also look to a range of other pantry ingredients that can help bring a dish in…

Flavored salts can be expensive, but it’s easy to make them on your own.

Since table salt and kosher salt are practically identical in terms of chemistry, why do recipes specify one or the other?

Can black pepper be substituted for white pepper in recipes?

We wondered how well LoSalt salt substitute, which replaces some of table salt’s sodium chloride with potassium chloride, would fare in baking applications.

To add a more nuanced kick of spiciness to dishes than red pepper flakes can offer, give Aleppo pepper a try.

Don’t skip early additions of pepper when a recipe calls for it—the spice will infuse the dish with a noticeable depth.

We sent cooked samples of food that we brined to an independent lab for sodium analysis.

Can dried lemongrass be substituted for fresh?

Could we pack more meat into the same volume of brine to save space in the fridge?