the buzz log

Holidays always serve up an extra helping of cooking buzz. When Easter hops past, searches for "how to cook a hard boiled egg" bound upwards. When St. Patrick's Day saunters by, queries on "how to cook corned beef" and "how to cook cabbage" jump. But cooks don't turn to the Web for gastronomic advice only for annual feasts.

The Buzz kitchen is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—and curious chefs are placing orders around the clock. Well, why not? Where else can you get stove-top tips and tricks at any time of day or night, from anywhere in the world? Aside from the aforementioned egg, here's a menu of the most requested "how to cook" searches from the past seven days. From the looks of things, there's some good eating going down across this country...