If you’re a bird stalker who is generous enough to leave out food, you typically only know when birds have visited because of the carnage left behind: the drained feeder, the mess of seed hulls, and an unimaginable amount of bird poop.Instead of camping out with a pair of binoculars to spy on your feathered friends, get an up-close view...

Grilling is a lot more pleasant—and your results are more professional—if you have a set of grill tools that work well. Unfortunately, a lot of them are flimsy, poorly designed, or gimmicky.But after spending many hours over open flames and hot coals, flipping hundreds of burgers and cooking dozens of chickens, we have some tried-and-true...

Growing up, my family absolutely loved the beach, whereas I mostly associated it with lugging a lot of gear and eating sand-filled sandwiches. Now that I have my own kids, and I see how much they enjoy collecting seashells, digging for creatures, and splashing in the waves, I’ve gained slightly more appreciation for sun and sand. We still...

Garden hoses are unremarkable when they work well, but if they underperform, they’ll drive you insane.After several years of testing—washing cars, gardening, pressure-washing driveways, and doing other hosey home chores—we’ve concluded that the Continental Commercial Grade Rubber Hose (50 feet) is the all-purpose garden hose we’d invest...

What a uniquely modern pleasure it is to keep a whole pizza on hand, ready to be brought to life at a moment’s notice.But frozen pizza can be pretty polarizing. For some, it’s a welcome blast from the past, catapulting you back to childhood or college days when it was the easiest thing to cook for yourself. For others, it’s a pale imitation...

Ask Wirecutter, an advice column written by Annemarie Conte, explores the best approaches to buying, using, and maintaining stuff.Dear Wirecutter,I’m moving into a house with a modern HVAC system, and my husband claims that means we’ll no longer need my beloved Coway Mighty air purifier. Is this true? How do I know when I need to use an...