Kitchen basics

Perfecting kitchen crafts.
Perfecting kitchen crafts.

Your kitchen dilemmas solved: Delve into our archives to discover everything from how to equip the modern kitchen, to how you can master the age-old task of creating the perfect pizza base. Add your own tips and comments to those of our experts.

How-tos

How to make gravy for Christmas.

How to make gravy: three recipes

Cocoa meringue roulade.

How to make a chocolate roulade

Adam Liaw's salmon oyakodon (salmon and roe rice bowl).

How to prepare sashimi

Brent Savage at Yellow. Poached eggs in burnt onion consomme

Brent Savage's perfect poached eggs

Cho Cho San's chicken wing yakitori

How to cook Cho Cho San's chicken wing yakitori

Almond milk recipe.

How to make almond milk

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 24: The croque monsieur served at Lolo & Wren in Brunswick West on July 24, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Luis Ascui/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)
Article & recipe

How to make Lolo & Wren's croque-monsieur

10 essential recipes.
Essential recipes

Mastering modern classics, from risotto to the perfect omelet

Homemade ricotta

Homemade ricotta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Medium

Karen Martini

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Reader ratings (55)
Make your own yoghurt.

How to make your own yoghurt

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Medium

Frank Camorra

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Reader ratings (22)
Tony Tan demonstrates the stir fry.
How-to

Mastering the stir-fry with Tony Tan

Tomato.
Summer in a bottle

How to make passata

Make your own soft drink.

How to make soft drinks at home

Reader photo: caterpillar cupcakes.

How to ice a cake like a professional

It pays to know your peppers.
Hot stuff

A user's guide to chillies

Ultimate vegie burger.
Meat-Free

How to make a vegie burger

Arabella Forge's homemade ice cream.
Tips and recipe

Healthy, home-made Ice-cream

Caroline Velik's cherry sorbet.
Ice-cream

How to make delicious ice-cream without a machine

Crispy skin barramundi.

How to cook the perfect piece of fish