Every once in a while, you take a bite of steak (or another protein like chicken or pork) that’s so tender and juicy that you have to wonder what kitchen wizardry was employed to make it so good.

From fish spatulas to paring knives, these are the must-have kitchen tools recommended by culinary school teachers across the ...

Every time I see a meat tenderizer, I think of my mother ... most essential cooking tools in our home; it was also a beginner-friendly tool for me, a Montessori kid used to playing with saws ...

These manual tools pierce your ingredient with a series of thin, needle-like blades, puncturing the meat and tenderizing it in a process called "swissing." This is what happens to a raw cube steak ...