Double boilers are handy to have in the kitchen for making delicate sauces like hollandaise, preparing custards or stretchy doughs and melting chocolate for sweet treats. You need a double boiler when ...

A double boiler is one of those pieces of specialty kitchen equipment that does one job and does it very well. It's designed ...

Q: A recipe called for a broiler setting of low. My broiler doesn’t have low and high. What temperature would that be? — Diane Chambeau, Commerce Township, Mich. A: Great question. Using a broiler is ...

Growing up, I loved cooking but I fully avoided the broiler. I’m not sure why, but maybe because my mom never used it or perhaps I just wasn't sure what it was. The entire time, I was wondering how to ...

For a basic cooking technique, broiling is surprisingly complicated. Maybe you get your melted-golden-crispy on on the regular, but for every broiling expert, there's another seriously bewildered home ...