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Yotam Ottolenghi spends plenty of time experimenting in the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen in London.

‘It’s the one ingredient I could never live without’: Yotam Ottolenghi’s essential kitchen wisdom

Keep these tips in your back pocket, and let them help you cook with confidence.

  • Yotam Ottolenghi
Commercial kitchens are increasingly looking to use induction cooking over gas stove tops.
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Kitchen cooking: the last stand of gas

Commercial kitchens are increasingly looking to use induction cooking over gas stove tops.

Egg-in-a-nest sandwich.

Cooking for one can be fun, easy and delicious. Here’s how

The key to cooking well for one is choosing the right recipes. These tips will help you navigate what will work for you.

  • Genevieve Ko

Don’t try this at home: Why you should leave these dishes to restaurants

Pastries, Peking duck, parfait ... some foods are better outsourced.

  • Terry Durack
Nagi Maehashi and her mother, Yumiko, making gyoza.

Mum’s best cooking wisdom? Nagi Maehashi, Adam Liaw and other famous cooks spill all

Mums have left a lasting impression on these chefs and cooks from their signature dishes (like the gyoza that rivals Tokyo’s best) to some less successful meals.

  • Daniela Frangos
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Give your pantry an overdue overhaul – and revamp your recipes at the same time

With food prices high, making better use of staple ingredients already in your pantry is a smart way to replenish your recipe repertoire.

  • Silvana Franco
This is what the experts think about the current crop of buzzy diets.

Nine simple tips that will make you a better cook (including five key pieces of kitchen kit)

It’s not exciting, but it’s essential that if you want to be a good cook you must first master the basics. Here’s where to begin.

  • Sohla El-Waylly
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Helen Goh recipe: Favourite orange cake
Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions)

Five of the best Helen Goh cakes to bake this weekend

Get your bake on - and make your friends and family very happy - with these sweet treats by the great Helen Goh.

Roasted chicken thighs

Danielle Alvarez’s simple herb butter transforms roasted chicken thighs into something special

Canned sardines get a bad rap. But Danielle Alvarez shows how to turn the silvery fishes (and other pantry ingredients) into a solid gold dinner favourites.

  • Danielle Alvarez
Illustration: Simon Letch

The foods you should always store in the fridge – and the ones you shouldn’t

Eggs, bread, tomato sauce, Vegemite: do they belong in the fridge or not? Jill Dupleix settles the argument once and for all.

  • Jill Dupleix