Choose your gear. A serrated knife, like a bread knife, is ideal. The small teeth on this kitchen staple act like a mini-grater, effortlessly scraping off the outer skin layer. A chef's knife or ...

If you're out of lemons, try using an equal amount of either orange or lime zest for your recipe. (Find more recipes using citrus fruit.) Orange and lemons will give you the same texture and look of ...

Lemons are versatile and wildly useful. A valuable addition to dishes both savory and sweet, and in forms both fresh and preserved, they are only as capable as the cook who uses them. Want to master ...

Lemon juice adds obvious flavor, but lemon zest imparts more nuanced aromas and tastes. Here's how to intensify it. Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of ...

Ever flipped through a recipe that calls for lemon zest (or any citrus fruit zest, for that matter), only to realize you're missing that one specific tool? Whoever convinced us we needed a citrus ...