MÄNNKITCHEN Day February 2022Mannkitchen 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)...
In Defense of The Garlic Press-(one of them at least) October 2020The 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...
MÄNNKITCHEN Pepper Cannon: The World's Best Crazy-Over-Engineered High Output Pepper Mill August 2020In 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...
MK9 Chef Knife July 2018 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 patterned after Norse...
Top 5 Maillard Reaction Tips from MÄNNKITCHEN June 2018Maillard 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. The...
What is the best spatula to use on cast iron skillets? March 2018There’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...