If you've ever skipped the starch in a sauce recipe, you know the difference it makes. Starches provide the consistency and complexity of food in the form of texture, or what is often referred to as ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have recently created a healthier form of starch in the cassava plant. Published in the scientific journal Plant ...

Thick, glossy royal icing is not the recipe you reach for when you are looking for a delicious cake frosting. You probably only think of it as the sugary mortar that holds gingerbread houses together ...

This post has been updated. There are plenty of situations that require the thickening power of a pantry starch: your pie filling, soup, sauce, gravy. Cornstarch, tapioca starch (also known as tapioca ...

Use this pantry staple in baking, frying, and, of course, making boba tea and pudding. Andee Gosnell is a San Francisco born, Birmingham-based food photographer, writer, and recipe developer with five ...

Potato starch is a versatile ingredient made by crushing potatoes to extract the starch. When you’re using potato starch, you’re using the dried and ground potatoes in the form of a fine powder.

Tapioca flour has a number of uses in cooking and baking. It works well as a thickener, makes a good gluten-free addition in baking, and is effective for coating ingredients before frying. There are ...

With cold temperatures beginning to infiltrate many cities and towns, now is the perfect time to hunker down and perfect all your favorite soups and stews. Aside from the old standbys like clam ...

If you’ve ever grated a pound of potatoes—say, for latkes—and soaked them in water until you’re ready to fry, you may have noticed some white, powdery stuff sinking to the bottom of the bowl. That, my ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

As much a textural marvel as a refreshing drink, bubble tea is one of Taiwan’s most renowned cultural exports. The eponymous ‘bubbles’ aren’t the result of carbonation, but a pile of chewy, sweet, ...