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Food Hacks

Fiendishly clever culinary hacks that cookbooks have yet to discover.

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"Revive a Stale Baguette Using the Miraculous Water Trick" cover image
Jan 29, 2024

Everyone talks about how great sliced bread is, but there's nothing better than the taste of a just-baked loaf of crusty French bread. Like most beautiful things in life, however, the beauty of the ba ...

"5 Simple Tips to Upgrade Your Packaged Ramen Noodles from Instant to Gourmet" cover image
Jan 29, 2024

Instant ramen has been popular in the States for decades, and restaurants that serve the real thing in any variety you can imagine have been popping up everywhere in the last few years. But you don't ...

"Water, Lemon Juice, Vinegar, or Nothing: Should You Even Bother Rinsing Chicken?" cover image
Jan 18, 2024

There's an ongoing debate about whether or not it's safe or even desirable to rinse meat before you cook it. Many fall into the anti-rinsing camp, saying that it's not effective at dislodging bacteria ...

"When You Can't Sleep, Eat This" cover image
Oct 11, 2023

Being able to sleep deeply and fully is one of the foundations for real health. When you go without it, you feel subhuman and incapable of dealing with the world—just ask a student who's had to pull a ...

"How to Clone KFC's Nashville Hot Chicken" cover image
Mar 22, 2023

What began as a regional specialty has turned into a national trend that looks like it's here to stay: Nasvhille hot chicken has caught on like wildfire, with hot chicken restaurants popping up across ...

"You're Doing It Wrong — This Is the Easiest Way to Make Rice" cover image
Mar 17, 2021

For those of us without rice cookers, conventional wisdom tells us that the stove is our only real option (unless, of course, you dabble in microwavable rice). However, if you're only using the stove ...

"Ingredients 101: Why Properly Rinsing Rice, Barley, Farro & Quinoa Is So Damn Important" cover image
Mar 17, 2021

Many lazy cooks skip rinsing off their grains before they cook 'em, but that's a big mistake for a few reasons. Some grains have coatings on them that need to be rinsed off to cook properly and taste ...

"How to Make 'Dirt' You Can Actually Eat" cover image
Mar 16, 2021

Want to show all your foodie friends that you're really in the know? Then it's time to master the art of making edible dirt. Chefs out there are finding ways to take various foodstuffs and dry, char, ...

"Can We Make Icecream Rolls at Home" cover image
Nov 13, 2020

I recently enjoyed ice cream rolls at an ice cream corner and I wonder can we make them at our homes. I asked the ice corner's owner about it and he said there is a chemical under the plate where ice ...

"HOW to MAKE CHICKEN BROTH / CHICKEN STOCK" cover image
Nov 9, 2020

Making chicken stock or any stock for that matter, is NOT about a recipe whatsoever. You can make two completely different kinds of stock with almost the exact same ingredients and yet have them be to ...