Rectangular baking pans are a mainstay of almost every home cook’s kitchen, but this type of pan—typically used for baking sheet cake—is also annoyingly hard to line with parchment paper. In the ...

In 2011 chef Alexandre Viriot was opening a hotel for decorated French chef Alain Ducasse in St. Petersburg, Russia. “I was trying to sear off fish on the plancha, [and it] was sticking,” Viriot ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

Q: I have seen recipes that call for buttering or greasing a cake pan, then placing parchment paper on top and then buttering the parchment. What is the point of buttering the bottom of the pan? For ...