Hala Nelson and her colleagues wanted to cook the perfect steak. So they decided to use math. The researchers created a mathematical simulation of a lean slab of beef roasting in an oven. That ...

If you start roasting a 14-pound turkey at 375 degrees at 7 a.m. and need to feed 15 people — including three vegetarians, a vegan and two gluten intolerants — by 1 p.m., how many pounds of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thanksgiving is coming, so just relax and accept the fact that you’ll get at least something wrong. The turkey will be too big. Or too small. Or too frozen.

Cooking is part science, part art, but a group of scientists at the University of Oslo have come up with a formula that uses the weight of your eggs, the done-ness you prefer, your altitude, and your ...