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The Best-Looking Coffee Gear to Display on Your Counter
By John A. Paradiso
The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party
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The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party

Your next dinner party will be better with a caffeinated kick, and coffee concentrate makes a variety of tasty drinks and desserts easy.

By Nickolaus Hines
KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat
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KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat

KOW Steaks might just be the best beef we've every enjoyed.

By John A. Paradiso
The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon
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The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon

In my house, there are two distinct coffee moments each day: the 7 a.m. brew and the 3 p.m. treat. The former is a slow, deliberate, and tactile experience with tools I love getting my hands on—grinding beans in a Fellow Ode Brew and filling up a Moccamaster. I stand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This Smart Coffee Maker is Your Personal No Fuss, At-home Barista

This is Worth the Hype, where our writers and editors put popular products to the test to see if they are, in fact, worth the hype. I’m not a coffee snob, or at least I don’t think I am. I pretty much only drink dark roast coffee black, or the…

By Amos Kwon
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The 9 Must-try German Beers To Drink This Summer

To say that Germany has affected the American brewing industry is a massive understatement. Without Germany, there likely isn’t much of a brewing culture in the US at all. While there are a few breweries in the US that can trace their roots back to the late 1800s in pre-Prohibition…

By Christopher Osburn
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Oyster Tempo Cooler

Coolers have come a long way, but they pretty much all require ice in order to function at their best, which edges in on their actual capacity. The Oyster Tempo changes all that, hence qualifying it as the world’s first high-performance cooler. The apex predator of thermal performance, the Oyster…

By Amos Kwon
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A Chef Explains How To Take Your Grilled Burgers From Good To Great

A skillet may be necessary for a smash burger or getting anything like that glorious burger at the end of The Menu, but summer calls for burgers on the grill. When it comes to backyard burger cookouts, being behind the grill is a sacred spot. Sure, burgers might not be…

By Nickolaus Hines
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The Best Ready-to-drink Canned Cocktails For a Good Drink Just About Anywhere

In the last few years, you’ve likely (between sips of hard seltzer) heard the term RTD. For those unaware, it stands for “Ready To Drink.” The simple definition is that an RTD is a single-serve, pre-packaged cocktail. With the rise of RTDs, you can now find pretty much any cocktail…

By Christopher Osburn
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