Unglazed clay vessels are among the oldest items used for food preparation. Computerized electronic rice cookers and programmable slow cookers are among the newest. A new product designed by a ...

Brian is the author of two culinary based books published via his imprint Storkburger Press. A lifelong Californian, he has been consistently exposed to some of the best food in the world. With a deep ...

China's home appliance giant Midea will allow consumers to return a kind of electric cooker produced by the company, in response to a China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast on Monday that revealed ...

When you lose someone you love, it sometimes helps to have a special keepsake as a reminder. Such is the case with my recently acquired clay pot. After my friend and longtime Chronicle colleague ...

Appliance giant Midea was forced to recall an electric cooker and apologize to customers after it was revealed that the product was made with ordinary clay instead of purple clay. The company promoted ...

Clay pots were among our first cooking vessels. In various shapes and sizes, they have been used in the kitchen since at least Roman times, and they are still commonly found from China to Morocco to ...

If you’ve ever shopped for a rice cooker, you've probably noticed that many are lined with the nonstick coating polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), or as you may know it — Teflon. But studies from the CDC ...