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Put Down the Soap—Here's the Right Way to Clean a Pizza Stone
25 Recipes for Eating Well (and Feeling Strong!) During Ramadan
TikTok's 'Marry Me Chicken' is the Latest in Commitment Poultry Dishes
The 9 Best Non Stick Pans, According to Home Cooks

Put Down the Soap—Here's the Right Way to Clean a Pizza Stone

Posted: 05 Feb 2022 06:00 AM PST

A pizza stone is a circular (or rectangular!) stone that emulates the heat distribution of a brick oven, giving you the ability to bake Napoli-level pizzas at home in your oven. The porous stone also draws moisture out of the dough as it bakes, giving your pizza a much crispier crust than a baking sheet would allow for.

Cleaning a pizza stone, though, is not the same as cleaning any other piece of cookware in your arsenal. Since the stone is porous, it tends to hold onto water and any kind of cleaning agent, and similar to glass, it requires cool-down periods after use to avoid temperature shock and cracking.

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:00 PM PST

Muslims around the world look forward to the month of Ramadan, a time within the holy calendar not only to restrict yourself from food and drink from sunup to sundown, but also to reflect and refocus. For 30 days, we get up before the sunrise for a meal and the first prayer of the day, and fast until sunset.

Every year, the Islamic calendar shifts up a few days from the Gregorian calendar, and in the United States, this makes a big difference in the number of hours of fasting and heat levels. This is the most challenging time of the year to be fasting: The days are long, and the weather is usually hot. While it's always necessary to keep track of your eating and drinking habits during Ramadan, it is especially critical to monitor what you eat, and when you eat it, in these hot summer days. This year, Ramadan begins on the evening of Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 and concludes on Monday, May 2nd, 2022.

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:38 PM PST

While oysters might hold centuries of reputation as an aphrodisiac, nothing seduces people into long-term partnership quite like poultry, at least according to modern legend. The latest in a long line of chicken dishes that supposedly inspire feelings of commitment, Marry Me Chicken, recently took TikTok by storm.

Like so many viral recipes on TikTok, it uses everyday ingredients and an overwhelming amount of dairy to make an easy dinner. A stick of butter, olive oil, chicken breasts, heavy cream, and plenty of Parmesan cheese bring the dish together in about 45 minutes, and—as the name implies—perhaps induce a proposal.

Posted: 04 Feb 2022 12:26 PM PST

Non stick pans have a bad rep among the restaurant chef crowd, not unlike measuring by volume with teaspoons and cups. Slow heat conductors, they say. Not durable! Weak! Cast iron or bust! Maybe the overall "fragility" of the non stick pan is ill-suited for the rigorous and high-heat cooking at restaurants, but at home where things are wayyy more chill, it's a flippin' godsend.

But pros do have legitimate causes of hesitation. If you're worried about the other bad rap that non stick cookware gets, know that non stick pans made after 2013 are made without polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), also known as C8. While these were some of the main chemicals that created the shiny, super-slick nonstick coating, they're also potentially carcinogenic if exposed in high amounts. Still, it's best to err on the side of caution and make sure the labels say they're PTFE- and PFOA-free. And using high heat on a non stick pan is a one-way ticket to ruining it—always stick to medium heat to ensure your eggs don't burn.

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