Health

Melted butter, without modification or adornment, makes a pretty damn good sauce, but whisking it with a little hot water makes it silkier, clingier, and, surprisingly, creamier. The resulting sauce has a fancy French name—beurre monté—but this simple emulsification can be whipped up by home cooks of any skill level.“Beurre monté’ simply means “mounted butter.” The phrase is used to refer to both the technique and the sauce itself, but don’t let the French intimidate you. If you can whisk, you can make this a sauce.Like mayonnaise, hollandaise sauce, and butter itself, beurre monté is an emulsification—a mixture of two immiscible ingredients, one of which is suspended in the other. When butter is melted, its emulsion breaks, but whisking cold butter in hot water stabilizes the emulsion, ke...

Baguettes are at their best the day they’re baked, which can make stockpiling them a little challenging. But cheese plates feel incomplete without crusty bread, so I like to keep them around, just in case I need to do any impromptu entertaining (or satisfy a personal craving). Luckily, simple breads like baguettes freeze incredibly well.By “simple,” I mean breads that are made with flour, water, yeast, and salt, or sourdough. Breads that have been enriched with dairy or eggs don’t do quite as well in the icebox. You can freeze baguettes whole or sliced, but I like to cut them in half, so I can defrost what I need, without committing to crostini.Start by cutting the baguette into a size that will fit in your freezer. Mini baguettes can be left whole, but most full-sized baguettes will have ...

Peloton’s Bike and Bike+ are on sale today for Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, at prices even better than during Prime Days back in July. The original Bike is nearly 25% off, and the upgraded Bike+ is 20% off.Of the two models, Peloton’s Bike is the classic, and it’s $350 cheaper than list price today. While I can’t predict the future, I have a strong feeling this is the cheapest the Bike is going to be this year. Today’s $1,095 price tag is cheaper than Prime Day, and cheaper than last year’s Black Friday sale. It’s even cheaper than the $1,145 price for refurbished bikes. You’re unlikely to be able to beat today’s deal unless you’re buying used.The Bike is a solidly built spin bike with a big touchscreen on which you can play classes with the platform’s instructors/motivational speakers or...

      If you’ve ever wanted a robot buddy of your own to slurp up the detritus you’ve been leaving behind, Prime Big Deal Days is go time. There are deals to be had left and right on robot vacuums from iRobot, Shark, Roborock, Ecovacs, Yeedy, Coredy and more. But if you’re looking to score the deepest discount, the eufy RoboVac G20 is it. Normally $229, Amazon is ratcheting down the price by 43% to $129 during Prime Big Deal Days. (Note: Prices can change at any time during this sale, but were live as of the time of this writing.) Eufy is a well-known brand in the robot space, and this particular model has garnered good reviews, particularly on Amazon, where it holds a solid four-star rating. There are lots of things to like here. This particularly slim bot has a...