It’s Cooking Week at Engadget!

If we’re straightforward, we’re kind of obsessed with foods right here at Engadget. Senior news editor Billy Steele is a yard pitmaster and has the finsta to show it. Editor-in-main Dana Wollman treats her NYT Cooking recipe box the way players handle their backlog. Commerce writer Nicole Lee has channeled her passions into Instant Pot, sous vide and rice cooker experimentations. And my changeover into an Italian grandmother is almost complete with my choice for laboriously home made pasta sauce over the things in store-acquired jars. We change to foodie YouTube and TikTok late at night we trade recipes in Slack and we typically use this stellar Person Fieri emoji when issues are, as the youngsters say, chef’s kiss.

We dwell for food when we’re not dwelling for tech, so many of us jumped at the prospect to prepare dinner for get the job done. Enter Cooking 7 days, our very first kitchen-centered collection, where we examine the intersection of cooking and tech, when also testing out some of the most well-liked — and wackiest — kitchen gadgets out there appropriate now. We dove into the worlds of grills, immersion blenders and, yes, air fryers, and tried out some large-tech appliances that ended up intimidating at initially, but that we finally mastered.

Long-time Engadget viewers will know that we have published about kitchen gadgets before. We’ve been ready to squeeze in mentions of electrical kettles and pizza ovens in excess of the several years, but we see Cooking Week as our very first official enjoy letter to food on Engadget. We hope that you take pleasure in looking at these tales as significantly as we relished crafting them (or, even greater, as considerably as we savored consuming the spoils of our tests).

Test out all of the Cooking 7 days tales appropriate in this article.