How to cut against the grain for tender, juicy bites every time. Maybe you did everything right—seasoned your steak properly, seared it perfectly, and even gave it time to rest—but it still came out ...

Editor’s note: This column was produced before Gene Wengert died in 2025. It is printed here in memoriam. Q We have small shop, and the person running the planer talks about planing, with rather than ...

Just like a piece of lumber, paper has a grain that runs in one direction along the sheet, changing the physical properties of the paper depending on how it is being used or manipulated relative to ...

Golf announcers will sometimes comment that a player is putting into the grain or has a slippery putt down grain. What exactly is grain on a putting green and how does it affect ball roll? Grain is ...