Mexican Lagers
We sampled the four best-selling imported Mexican lagers plain and cooked in dru…
Orange Juice
Is the sunny image of our favorite breakfast juice actually just pulp fiction?
Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate
We’d long written off frozen concentrated orange juice as a relic from the 1950s…
Supermarket Medium-Roast Coffee
Decades after they convinced Americans to drink ultradark French and Italian roa…
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Sherry
In the test kitchen, we use sherry in a variety of recipes. Does it matter what …
Supermarket Green Tea
The Japanese and Chinese have sipped green tea for more than a millennium. Sudd…
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Tomato Juice
We wanted to find a a product that we work well cooked in recipes, that we could…
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Instant Espresso Powder
Is the right espresso powder the secret to intense chocolate flavor in brownies …
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Decaffeinated Coffees
Has grocery store decaf coffee improved as much as the high-octane stuff in rece…
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Iced Tea
Do specialty packages blended specifically for iced tea really make a better pit…
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Substitutes for Fresh Lemon Juice
If you don’t always have fresh lemons on hand, you should know how to substitute…
Bottled Iced Teas with Lemon
We were looking for iced teas that actually tasted like tea. Could any deliver?
Premium Teas
Supermarket teas have improved in quality; does it still make sense to buy premi…
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Orange Liqueurs
For cooking, do you need to spend big bucks for the prestige brands, or will som…
Irish Beer
We tasted seven beers which claim an Irish pedigree to determine if Guinness, th…
Supermarket Black Tea
Which black tea you should buy depends on how you take it—plain or with milk and…
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Hard Apple Cider
We tasted four nationally available hard ciders both plain and cooked in recipes…
Grapefruit Juice
Grapefruit juice runs the gamut in terms of tartness and sweetness. We put five …
Lemonade
A small brand squeezes past the big names.
Bottled Water
Are we out of our minds to pay over 35 cents per glass for bottled water?