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And the ingredients are trimmed to bare essentials. The aforementioned risotto is a nine-ingredient, one-pan, veggie-only recipe whose flavor accents are pared down to lemon and garlic. A pork chop dish one-ups this with just seven ingredients, none of which is a starch, with fresh rosemary and garlic doing the …

Since the graphical settings here are basically turned all the way down already, if you want to play the latest games, you’ll have to compromise by dropping the resolution. I didn’t find the medium option of 1,600×1,000 that compelling, and a few games didn’t support it at all. At 1,280×800, …

Every night for three months, I strapped a futuristic-looking device onto my face—something like a Stormtrooper mask designed by a spa technician from the year 3000. Depending on my mood, I toggled through the vibration therapy settings. Some nights I meditated; most nights I just lay there, scrolling through TikTok …

The mesh backrest is wide enough, from the shoulders to the love handles, cradling my body just right. I wouldn’t call it comfortable, but I felt decently supported, and I haven’t experienced any back pain. (It has a 275-pound weight capacity.) I wish there were more adjustment options for the …

When you have three different floors in your house, like I do, using a cordless stick vacuum is the key ingredient to keeping them clean. It’s easy to carry around to different areas, compact enough to vacuum two staircases without pulling a muscle, and still wide enough to vacuum an …

When I test a mechanical keyboard with “Pro” in the name, I expect it to be the best of the best, with no compromises over its non-Pro variant. Razer has this figured out: The BlackWidow V4 Pro is better than the original V4 in every way, and it proves that …

If I’m going to use a headset regularly, it needs a visible way to indicate that I’m muted. A light is preferable, but the Corsair’s microphone clicks upward and gives an audible voiceover that lets you know the mic is muted or unmuted. There’s a mix of voice prompts and …

Factor’s selling point over other ready-to-heat meal kits has always been twofold. One is that its meals are friendly to keto and other versions of high-protein and carb-conscious diets. The other is that its microwaveable meals have never been frozen, leaving open the possibility for actual texture in one’s meal—a …

Other Delivery Chocolate Boxes We Enjoyed Uzma Chocolat’s Signature Exotic Box for $49: Hailing from Chicago, this was one of a few to arrive after the date for our January tasting panel—and so couldn’t be included in our top picks. But among the latecomers, it was a contender: an enrobed …

The first meal I ever cooked for myself was ramen. The next 12 were all, also, ramen. So were a sizable percentage of the next hundred. By age 11, as a latchkey kid, I had mastered the art of the Maruchan egg drop, the sliced green onion, the chili and …