To make a good cheese sauce or gravy, you need a thickening agent. Cornstarch and flour are two common thickening agents in the home kitchen. Both are cereal starches and when they’re mixed with a ...

Sometimes, we are so habituated to using an ingredient for a specific purpose that we don't realise its full potential. We often don't even know about the different ways in which we can use it around ...

There’s nothing worse than a thin sauce or a watery stew, but such undesirable outcomes can happen to the best of us, which is why the kitchen gods have blessed us with cornstarch—a magical powder ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thanksgiving dinner typically isn’t a particularly virtuous meal, but there are simple ways to lighten the load. Gravy is a good place to start.

To thicken your soup and add fiber in the process, try rolled oats. Stir in a handful and let the mixture simmer—as the oats ...

Have you ever wondered how the soups served at restaurants are super thick? Or how the cutlets you ordered online had the most perfect crispy coating? Then chances are that cornstarch was the secret ...