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Another vote for parchment paper. Makes clean up a snap.

It seems unglazed quarry tiles aren't as fashionable as they were just a few years ago. They are available through Home Depot's flooring dept, as a special order. There should be a sample board of some kind that you should be able to order from. I bought some last winter unglazed 6x6 on a...

JustPlainBill, I do sharpen the Forschner. I use a fine India round file working each gullet to the point like a saw, which gets it better than it was new, but I was hoping for improved performance from convex scallop design. I haven't used a knife of that design I may not actually get what I'm...

Thanks for the input everyone!

I have reached the point where almost all the bread we consume is now home made, and usually a hard crusty variety. This has led me to look for a new bread knife and I'm considering a Mac superior 10.5" or a Wusthof Classic 10" super slicer. Would either of these knives offer any improvement...

I have questions rather than recommendations. How do you plan to keep this knife sharp? What types of food prep are you thinking, at this point, you're interested in? What size and of what material will your cutting board be? Since you said you're brand new, how are your knife skills...

For those who make the distinction, what makes pasta different from noodles?

Huh??? For the life of me I can't figure out what I said in my suggestion that made you think I was implying anything about your daughter, her habits, or your relationship with her. Forschner's are inexpensive work-a-day knives that do work. It's not just a cheap knife. As a system, with a...

The Forschner knives-- either the Fribrox (textured plastic handle) or the slightly more expensive rose wood handled versions. The Fbribox handle knives frequently are the recommended knives from Cooks Illustrated with good reason. They are light, comfortable for most people, will take a good...

Susan, I've been using the oblong La Cloche for a few months now and I find that the performance of a no-knead loaf is really close to when I use either my magnalite or scan pan dutch ovens. When baking a more conventional hand-shapped loaf using quarry tiles and steam I get a deeper brown...

We are considering getting a Le Creuset oval French oven 6 3/4 qt size. In their instructions Le Creuset says not to heat an empty pan, does this mean that if we want to brown meat on the stove top prior to cooking in the oven, that we should start with a cold pan , a pan with oil and then...

I was under the impression that improper defrosting would degrade the quality of frozen foods even more than the method of storage. For example,a frozen fish left out on a counter to defrost leaves a water mess vs a slow defrost in the frig which leaves the fish nice and firm. Or is that the...

Joe, I don't personally have experience using the La Cloche bakers, I have done business with Breadtopia, and it's a very good company to do business with. If you go to their web site and look under sourdough variations, there is a video of Eric making cranberry pecan no-knead bread using...

Dave, Just in case you're interested, Hy-Vee sells cake yeast from their bakery counter in pound blocks.

Thank you for the information. Rob, when one uses a crock stick type sharpener is the operation similiar to using a steel in the verticle position, except that the stick itself is angled and the knife is held at 90 degrees?