With a high-speed camera and a tiny guillotine, scientists showed that chopping onions slowly and with sharper knives cuts down on tears.

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Place the pot on a potting dish filled with water. This method, known as bottom feeding, allows the perlite to slowly absorb ...

A new discovery about how cutting onions ejects pungent aerosols up to two-thirds of a meter into the air has led to practical advice for reducing the spray: Cut onions slowly with a sharpened blade ...

If there's a more tedious kitchen prep task than peeling garlic, we're open to hearing about it. The thin skin around the bulb can be difficult to peel off, it's sticky, and your fingers smell like ...

Never underestimate the importance of a clean cutting deck. It’s easy to forget about the caked-on grass clumps that cling to the underside of your lawn mower, but if allowed to build up too much, ...