About
Cooking, slowly, mostly on Tuesdays.
Open Burner is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
Open Burner is an editorial of home cooking for cooks who use what they have, make notes in pencil on the recipe, and don't post the result.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the Open Burner Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@openburner.co.
The masthead
- LB
Lou Bertillon cooked professionally for twelve years before she stopped, and now she cooks at home, on her own time, and writes about both.
- PS
Petra Sloane learned to bake from her grandmother and never went to culinary school. She has run Open Burner's bread section since the magazine began.
- AC
Adrian Coate writes about ingredients you can keep on a shelf and what to do with them on a Tuesday in February.
- RW
Rosa Whittaker has been writing about kitchen tools for two decades. She owns three knives.
- SP
Sam Park edits Open Burner's drinks section from a small apartment kitchen in central Seoul. He keeps his cocktail shaker on the windowsill.