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This classic chicken soup is exactly what you need, whether to soothe a cold or just to warm your bones—flavorful yet clean, and satisfying without being overly rich or heavy.

This meat-and-potato stew has versions throughout northern Europe, and not even Liverpudlians agree what the best recipe is, but our resident culinary perfectionist won’t let that stop her ...

You may love it. You may hate it. But a smear of mayonnaise before cooking makes beef, pork, chicken and fish better as if by magic. J. Kenji López-Alt explains.

We like our micheladas with a bold acidity and noticeable heat. This version of the refreshing Mexican beer cocktail is made with cold light beer, fresh lime juice, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.

White chicken stock, in which neither the chicken nor the aromatics are roasted first, may be the most versatile of all stocks. It's also incredibly easy to make, leading to a deeply flavorful stock, using a method and ingredients that are as easy and accessible as possible.

This thick and creamy tomato soup contains only a splash of cream. The real secret to its consistency is carrot purée, which also provides sweetness to mellow the acidity of tomatoes, creating a hearty soup that feels like a meal on its own.

Few things are as gratifying on a cold day as a warm bowl of soup, and this is one arena in which vegetarian dishes can really stand out. We've put together a collection of 19 of our best vegetarian soup and stew recipes—including a bunch of vegan ones, like our rich, creamy (yet dairy-free!) 15-minute tomato soup and a stick-to-your-ribs concoction with all the flavors of a loaded baked potato.

There's more than meats the eye between these diminutive buns: Check out the science here....

A homemade slider buns recipe that you can make in the bread machine or oven that takes under twenty minutes.

By first caramelizing onions in the skillet and removing them, you build up a patina of sticky, browned onion juice that fuses itself to the beef when you smash the patties into it.

Mashed potato problems and pitfalls, and how to avoid or fix them.

A rich, stretchy, smooth, and silky French dish, pommes aligot combines mashed potatoes with half their weight in melted cheese for a winter dish that will warm you from the inside out.

Short of a box mix, the cream biscuit is by far the simplest biscuit formula out there. Dry ingredients are whisked together and heavy cream is gently stirred in. That's it. In fact, the biscuit dough will probably be ready before your oven has fully preheated.

The secret to baked wings that taste just like real-deal, deep-fried Buffalo wings? Some baking soda. But, of course, this wouldn't be The Food Lab unless we tested 28 variations first to confirm.

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ChefSteps is here to make cooking more fun. Get recipes, tips, and videos that show the whys behind the hows for sous vide, grilling, baking, and more.

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Ever wonder why there isn't a chicken-fried chicken alternative to chicken-fried steak? Turns out it exists, and it's called Maryland fried chicken. Shallow fried with a simple dredging of seasoned flour until golden, then topped with a white gravy made in the skillet after frying, this is a version of fried chicken you need to know about.

Dried porcini mushrooms soaked in turkey stock give this gravy a great earthy depth.

This basic turkey gravy gets a hefty amount of heavy cream right at the end, followed by a mixture of fresh herbs like thyme, sage, and rosemary.

Everyone's always worried about making a bad gravy, but no matter the issue, there's an easy solution. Here's how to fix all kinds of problems, whether your gravy is too thin, too thick, lumpy, greasy, salty, or broken.

Finding a clear definition of gumbo is a fool's errand, and that's part of what makes gumbo so fun: its multiplicity. Here's a closer look at the Louisiana stew's many forms and the techniques available for making your own.

22 recipes for all your favorite Mexican dishes, from pozole verde to carnitas to aguachile.

Classic aioli is made with nothing but garlic and olive oil pounded in a mortar and pestle. Our updated version uses egg yolks to help bind the sauce along with a hand blender to make it 100% foolproof and extremely quick.

Golf ball syndrome is a terrible affliction that affects millions of grilled or broiled burgers every year. All that you need to do to prevent this from happening is to compensate by shaping your patty a little wider than the bun to begin with, and making a shallow dimple in the center of it. But why does this work?

The Burger King Whopper is as 'Murican as it gets: grilled beef, American cheese (because everybody gets the cheese), tomato, onion, iceberg lettuce, and dill pickle, a dollop of mayo, a squirt of ketchup, and a sesame seed bun. Sounds like the ingredients of a great sandwich to me, so I decided to recreate it, upgrading the ingredients and the technique every step along the way.

We've taken the classic flame-grilled flavor of the Whopper, complete with the exact right ratio of toppings and beef, and upgraded it with better ingredients, better layering, and better technique to form a burger that's truly fit for The King.

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Grab your favorite extra-virgin olive oil for an aromatic, vegan twist on chocolate chip cookies.