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Food Hacks

Fiendishly clever culinary hacks that cookbooks have yet to discover.

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Apr 3, 2014

There's a better way to do just about anything, and it's even more apparent when it comes to shoving food down your throat. I'll admit that I usually just down whatever's in front of my face without t ...

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Apr 1, 2014

When I first started cooking, if I saw lemon juice or zest in a recipe, I almost always left it out. Unless it was a main component, I never thought it made much of a difference in the overall flavor ...

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Mar 31, 2014

This video will show you how to make dippin' dots. It's extremely simplewith the exception of getting the items required for it. What you need is: Liquid nitrogenIce cream mixBowlSpoon mixerPlastic/St ...

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Mar 28, 2014

Dried fruit makes a great, healthy snack by itself, and it's a nice addition to both sweet and savory dishes. Most people assume you have to have a dehydrator to make it at home, but you don't really ...

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Mar 28, 2014

It's easy to take the food we eat for granted, but the truth is, there are a lot of bizarre, wonderful, and just plain weird things about what we eat and drink, the effects it has on our bodies, and v ...

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Mar 27, 2014

Yesterday, I was halfway through a recipe when I realized it called for puréed tomatoes, and all I had was diced. I definitely wasn't going to abandon ship and start over on something else, but I didn ...

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Mar 25, 2014

Store-bought citrus reamers and squeezers are great for extracting all of the juice out of lemons, limes, and oranges, but if you're not squeezing fresh juice every week, you probably don't have one—a ...

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Mar 25, 2014

Homemade ice cream sandwiches are delicious, but even when you use the slicing shortcut to make assembly easier, it still requires the planning and forethought to buy the ice cream and make the cookie ...

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Mar 25, 2014

What can't Sriracha do? You can use it to upgrade your ramen, spice up your candy, or even try one of variousrecipes to make your own. And if you want an easy way to add it to basically everything, yo ...

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Mar 24, 2014

Ever wonder why when you defrost meat, there's all that pink liquid at the bottom of the plastic bag? That liquid is called "purge," and it's not good. What happens is that ice crystals form and expan ...