A slightly harder, less ripe lemon will be easier to zest than a softer fruit that gives easily when you grip it, so instead of palming all the lemons at your grocery store until you find a juicy one, ...

Lemon juice adds obvious flavor, but lemon zest imparts more nuanced aromas and tastes. Here's how to intensify it. Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of ...

Lemon zest — shavings of the bright yellow, outermost portion of the rind — is extremely versatile, and a small sprinkle goes a long way in adding a pop of lemon flavor to a dish. Because the zest ...

During culinary school and my subsequent time cooking in restaurants, I learned that finishing a savory dish with a flurry of bright yellow lemon zest or rubbing zest into the sugar before mixing a ...

If you are baking or cooking and you find that your recipe calls for lemon, you may be tempted to use lemon juice, but you can often get better results with lemon zest. Lemon zest refers to the ...

Ever flipped through a recipe that calls for lemon zest (or any citrus fruit zest, for that matter), only to realize you're missing that one specific tool? Whoever convinced us we needed a citrus ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Squeezing a bit of fresh lemon juice over a ...

Lemon zest, the yellow part of the peel – not the white bitter part – holds the essential oils of the lemon and is thus filled with pure lemon flavor. Lemon juice, on the other hand, has the acidic, ...