Guides — Kitchen Drawer Notes

Guides

Practical guides to everyday kitchen tools, grouped by the drawer they belong in.

Thermometers

Instant-read or leave-in, which features matter, and how to take a reading you can trust, plus the safe temperatures worth knowing.

Weighing ingredients makes baking more consistent and leaves fewer dishes. Here's what to look for in a scale and how to use one well.

Kitchen shears do jobs a knife does clumsily. Here's how they differ from scissors, what features matter, and how to keep a pair clean.

Traditional, smooth-edge or electric? What makes a can opener work well, how to use each type, and how to make yours last.