Don't fear the pit! To easily pit cherries or olives, place them on a cutting board and gently smash them with the smooth side of the mallet. The fruit will crack open and the pit loosens, coming ...

CARNIVORE’S TOOL: If some of your favorite recipes call for thin meat cutlets, or if you’d like a cut of meat with uniform thickness so it all cooks at the same time, a meat mallet is a worthy — and ...

If you can afford tenderloins and prime ribs, you won't need any meat tenderizer to get juicy, melt-in-the-mouth morsels out of the beef cuts. But for us 99-percenters, tougher cuts like chuck and ...