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 ...

I never thought that I’d be encouraging people to buy meat mallets. I'm a vegetarian and, listen, I know what meat mallets are typically used for: pounding meat to an even thickness so that it cooks ...

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 ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. In the kitchen at the Portland-based Russian restaurant Kachka, the meat mallet is an indispensable piece ...