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Her Curated Kitchen

Inspiring home cooks through honest reviews, the best of the best, and useful kitchen tips.

  • Home
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    • Gift Guides
    • Best Cookware
    • Best Ingredients
  • Honest Reviews
    • Food & Ingredients
    • Cookware
    • Tableware
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A Beginner’s Guide to Making Homemade Chicken Broth with Scraps

Tia Goodnight 01/28/202503/25/2025

If you’re an ingredients household and your trash is regularly catching onion skins, carrot tops, and leftover rotisserie chicken, you’re going to love this blog post. Making homemade …

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Honest Reviews

An Honest Review of the Smithey Cast Iron Skillet

Tia Goodnight 01/27/202501/28/2025

Let me start by saying I’ve always had a soft spot for cast iron cookware. It’s classic, it’s versatile, and honestly, it just feels right in the kitchen. …

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Cookware Tips

Cast Iron Cookware Handles: FAQs

Tia Goodnight 06/21/202401/27/2025

If you’ve never absentmindedly reached for the handle on your cast iron skillet only to abruptly pull your hand back and yell out something that would make your …

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Cleaning & Care Tips Cooking Tips Cookware Tips Kitchen Tips

Why Do Pans Smoke? Pan Smoking Fixes

Tia Goodnight 05/31/202403/04/2025

Being called a ‘smoke show’ is a funny thing. If it’s coming from your partner, you’ll be walking around feeling like a million bucks. If it’s coming from …

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Cookware Tips

Why Do Pans Warp?

Tia Goodnight 05/13/202405/13/2024

Warping can be riveting when it’s part of the plot of a sci-fi novel. When it comes to your frying pan, though, it’s nowhere near as compelling – …

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Cookware Tips Kitchen Tips This vs That

Can a Skillet Replace a Wok?

Tia Goodnight 05/07/202405/07/2024

If you’re a fan of stir-fry you probably know it’s traditionally made in a wok. But what if you are planning to make that new recipe for chicken …

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Cookware Tips Kitchen Tips

Cast Iron vs Ceramic Cookware

Tia Goodnight 04/22/202404/25/2024

If you’re trying to get a real, unbiased take on cast iron vs. ceramic cookware, let me just say how much I feel for you.  You might be …

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Utensils of various materials on a granite countertop: nylon, wood, metal, and silicone.
Cookware Tips Kitchen Tips

The Best Utensils to Use With Stainless Steel Cookware

Tia Goodnight 04/16/202404/16/2024

I remember my early days of (attempting to) cook with cheap, mismatched pans of mostly non-stick cookware (yikes!) plus my single handed-down old cast iron beauty. Everything changed …

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Food & Ingredient Reviews Honest Reviews

An Honest Review of Just Bare Chicken Nuggets: The CFA Dupe?

Tia Goodnight 04/06/202404/06/2024

I’m usually suspicious when a friend tells me that this new something “tastes just like” a beloved food. It’s like when someone says a cauliflower crust pizza “tastes …

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Cleaning & Care Tips Cooking Tips Kitchen Tips

How To Keep Food From Sticking To Stainless Steel Pans

Tia Goodnight 04/04/202404/04/2024

You could probably guess this from taking, like, the briefest of glances at my post history, but I’m a die-hard stainless steel cookware devotee. So much so that …

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A box of original Velveeta sits on a granite countertop.
Can I Freeze That? Kitchen Tips

Can You Freeze Velveeta Cheese?

Tia Goodnight 04/04/202404/04/2024

Ah, Velveeta, the golden, melty, not-really-cheese loaf. It’s the cornerstone of my family’s holiday dip and in my homemade mac & cheese. The only problem is that it …

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