The oven

Take a look at our Food Editor's top tips on how to unlock your oven’s potential when it comes to baking.

Brush up on these oven safety tips and learn about the surprising items you should never put in your oven. Better safe than sorry!

As with any dream home, I would start designing in the kitchen—and like all good kitchens, mine would have a knock-out range. A girl can dream, right? While some of these pieces of art below cost more than the average American car, others are quite stylish on a budget. Which one is your favorite?

Oven

Look, if I had my way, my entire apartment would be one giant kitchen, with enough countertop space to house an air fryer, toaster oven, drip coffee machine, slow cooker, dehydrator, blender, food processor — you get the idea. However, unless my landlord has some serious renovations planned (let me know, Dave!), I’m probably out of luck on that front.

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Over the last year we’ve taken a look at almost every part of the kitchen and figured out the best way to clean it. We’ve covered the basics — how to clean the stovetop, oven, refrigerator, dishwasher — but also tackled a few head-scratching specifics, like how to clean a range hood filter and the most effective way to clean an abominably greasy, impossible-to-see-through oven door.

Cooking with oven

If you're breaking out the mixing bowls and KitchenAid, chances are you're also setting the oven to 350 degrees. But why do so many recipes call for this temperature?