We tasted five supermarket products, plain and in our Cook's Illustrated recipe …

We’ve always been a little prejudiced in favor of dried beans over canned. But i…

Think canned cannellini beans are no match for dried beans cooked from scratch? …

We put six brands of jasmine rice—from supermarket varieties to high-end mail-or…

Who knew wild rice was actually an aquatic grass? See which brand swam to the to…

This creamy chickpea spread has gone from health food obscurity to the No. 1 ref…

We gathered three national brands, tasting them plain and in our Thai noodle sti…

Our tests proved that once pasta is topped with sauce, flavor differences from b…

Canned beans may be convenient, but their flavor and texture never measure up to…

Whole-wheat pasta used to be awful, with mushy texture and a cardboard taste. Ha…

Judging from the brands and styles cramming supermarket shelves, there's an oat …

We tested one brand of stone-ground oats. Could they please our tasters' palates…

Arborio rice makes the best risotto, but does the best Arborio have to come from…

Are the specialty brands and Italian imports worth the extra price?

Can American brands compete with pricey Italian imports?

Which slice is best?

A sweet discovery helped us see which baked beans are best.

Are there real differences among the four major national brands of English muffi…

Trust what’s in the bag, not on it.

At the supermarket, these loaves range from pale and fluffy to dark and hearty, …

It’s called “ready rice” for a reason: Microwave it for less than two minutes, r…

We tasted 25 boxed and frozen versions of mostly clumpy, gloppy, wimpy mac and c…

While salt can be both friend and foe, mush is always a foe.