You don’t always need to sift dry ingredients like your flour or cocoa powder, but there are certain cases in which you should pull out your sifter or fine-mesh sieve. Here’s why recipes call ...

Sift flour carefully if you fold it into a fluffy or egg white-based cake batter like chiffon, angel food cake, ... which you can also do if you’d like to skip adding another tool to your cabinet.

You may be familiar with the kind of hand-cranked sifter you see in the photo at the top of this story. If you have one, great. Otherwise, “you don’t have to buy anything special,” Sheehan says.

I’ll admit it: Every time a recipe demands that I sift an ingredient like all-purpose flour, I raise my eyebrows. Do I really have to break out an extra tool that’s notoriously tricky to clean ...

Angel food cake is synonymous with a light and airy texture, and its short ingredients list of just egg whites, sugar, and cake flour has lots to do with it. But there's more within the method than ...

Many bakers will sift dry ingredients (such as the flour, baking powder, and spices) together to make sure they’re evenly distributed. I recommend still whisking your ingredients together for at ...

I’ll admit it: Every time a recipe demands that I sift an ingredient like all-purpose flour, I raise my eyebrows. Do I really have to break out an extra tool that’s notoriously tricky to clean? The ...

I’ll admit it: Every time a recipe demands that I sift an ingredient like all-purpose flour, I raise my eyebrows. Do I really have to break out an extra tool that’s notoriously tricky to clean? The ...