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Slow Cookers 101: Guide to Converting Recipes

Slow Cookers 101: Guide to Converting Recipes

Slow cooking is adaptable to a wide variety of recipes. Because slow cookers use low cooking temperatures and retain moisture during the cooking process, any recipe that requires cooking something “low and slow” can easily convert to a slow...

How Do You Bake Bread in a Slow Cooker?

How Do You Bake Bread in a Slow Cooker?

Baking bread in a slow cooker doesn’t seem like it should work, but it does, and better than you think. I put it to the test in our Hamilton Beach Test Kitchen. To make it easy, I used our Food Processor White Bread recipe. Everything is mixed in...

Teach Your Teen to Cook: Easy Toaster Oven Tips

Teach Your Teen to Cook: Easy Toaster Oven Tips

Cooking can be intimidating for teens, but there will inevitably come a time in adulthood when it becomes a necessary skill. Rather than sending your teenager off to a world of radiator quesadillas and canned soup, teach them everything they need to...

We tried Whipped Coffee and LOVE it!

We tried Whipped Coffee and LOVE it!

What do you do when self-isolation keeps you from your daily coffee shop run? Make Whipped Coffee, also known as Dalgona Coffee! Named after Dalgona, which is a Korean Sugar Sponge Candy, this whipped coffee is sweet, sticky, and delicious. We...

Meal Planning Made Easy: 9 Helpful Appliances

Meal Planning Made Easy: 9 Helpful Appliances

Whether it’s your budget you are trying to get under control, or the ingredients going into your meals, creating a weekly meal plan can help you achieve both. Meal planning can seem intimidating at first, but with a little prep work and the right...

Cook While You Work (from Home): Six Slow Cooker Recipes

Cook While You Work (from Home): Six Slow Cooker Recipes

I have always loved the “walk away” convenience of slow cookers. But in this new time of working from home, home-schooling children, teens taking up all the wi-fi, and fighting with my husband for office space, the slow cooker has become my...

How to Make a Fabric Face Mask at Home

How to Make a Fabric Face Mask at Home

A big elbow bump to all of you who are pulling out your stacks of fabric scraps to sew face masks for those who need them. While they are not a substitute for personal protective equipment, social distancing and staying home, they can certainly...

3 Meal Planning Tips when Cooking for One or Two People

3 Meal Planning Tips when Cooking for One or Two People

While working in the Hamilton Beach test kitchen today, performing test routines on a number of products, it occurred to me that my whole team is currently working from home and cooking for just one or two people. Our group runs the gamut from a...