The base cup is certainly the most problematic feature of the cannon.  Base cup too tight = O-ring is damaged. Base cup falls off = O-ring is broken. Pepper cannons are manufactured...

Mannkitchen Day is March 25, my Moms birthday.When Coke Oines was six, her mother renovated and re-floored a bedroom in their home so that Coke (who was already unusually tall)...

Pakora. It's the most satisfying meatless thing I've eaten. How good is it? It's cheeseburger good. It's skillet pizza good. It's taco good. It's Ninja star roll good. It's almost...

The Garlic press is a much maligned apparatus. Many chefs are on record referring to them as abominations and worse, and we get it: single use kitchen tools can be...

In the Fall of 2018, Cleve Oines seasoned 4 steaks with salt and freshly ground black pepper. It took 73 cranks of the pepper mill. At crank 10, Cleve wondered...

There are as many methods for brining and smoking salmon as there are people who have attempted it. Secret methods and ingredients abound, and I'll confess to having tried more...

The day before Mother's Day, my wife hinted that she wanted sushi. She said: "I want sushi." which is precisely the level of subtlety I'm capable of interpreting accurately. My...

Usually, quiche has a crust and a Frittata does not. This recipe has a "crust" made of cheese, but I'm calling it a frittata anyway. Replacing my typical shredded potato...

Don't let my tan fool you, I'm a Pacific Islander. Yes, my Island is a bit North of Hawaii, but let's not split hairs. We were recently back in Hawaii,...

My Mom's Cinnamon roll recipe makes 4 dozen, or not quite 10 each if you have a family of 5. It's a lot of cinnamon rolls-but somehow never quite enough....

There's no one I've spent more time hunting and fishing with than Captain Alaska (AKA Hughey). He was there when I shot my first deer, and when I missed a...

Growing up in Alaska, it never occurred to me to hunt fish from their side of the surface. I'm a huge fan of breathing, and being underwater has ruined the...

Ingredients: 1 Hughey: AKA Captain Alaska, fisherman, hunter, knower and doer of things. 1 Powell: World's fastest learner, and author of How to Out-fish an Alaskan in Ten Minutes or...

This isn't healthy. Not in a "oh this has 17 grams of sugar per BLAH Blah blah..." way. It's unhealthy in a "and that's when Timmy stole grandma's motorized wheelchair...

Introducing a kitchen tool for the new era, the MÄNNKITCHEN MK9 Männ is "my" in a dialect of old Norse. My kitchen = MÄNNKITCHEN. The profile of the MK9 is...

Pot Roast. The name is simple, straightforward, and minimally descriptive. A roast in a pot-what could be more simple? Simple dishes are my favorite, not only because they are easy...

Maillard sounds like my-yar. The French like to use a lot of unpronounced letters. On the other hand, they also use a lot of butter, so they get a pass....

If you have a cast iron skillet and like pizza, you're in for a treat. If you don't have a skillet, buy one now. I've made pizza on pizza stones,...

Taco meat. What is taco meat to you? When I was young it always meant ground beef with generic pre-mixed "Taco" seasoning. Chicken would be considered an exotic variation, and...

There’s two basic types of cast iron cooks: One spends days meticulously seasoning their cast iron in the oven with layers of unrefined flax seed oil. It’s a lot of...

I'm going to share a secret technique with you that will change the way you make grilled cheese sandwiches for the rest of your life. I'm not sharing this technique...