Cooking Techniques: Roasting, Roasting & Reheating Tips

Master professional cooking techniques like slow-cooking a ribeye roast or pressure-cooking dried chickpeas. From ingenious hacks like making onion rings with pancake mix to reheating Chinese food, improve your kitchen efficiency.

How to Slow Cook Beef Top Round Roasts

Full-flavored and lean, beef top round roasts lack fat and marbling. This makes these roasts moderately tough, especially when cooked too quickly in a dry heat. Cooking them for hours in a slow cooker causes the collagen in the meat to break down, tenderizing the roast.

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How to Slow Cook Baron of Beef

Legend has it that Henry VIII was so smitten with a spit-roasted double sirloin of beef that he dubbed it Sir Loin, the Baron of Beef. In England, the large joint of beef that included the loins and both legs acquired the moniker of baron of beef.

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