The current reckoning on race and cultural appropriation has landed in a big way in our kitchens. Sure, the subject matter this time is a tempest in a teacup compared to issues the U.S. is now facing. This particular debate stems from the right and wrong way to cook rice.
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Making grits is no walk in the park. The process involves a lot of eyeballing, stirring, and standing attentively over a hot stove (via Bon Appetit). Sometimes, that's a nice, character-building activity. But other times, you just want the cheesy, buttery satisfaction without the sweaty work.
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There are many pitfalls to making French onion soup, but one of the keys to creating a great French onion soup is getting the foundation right. Which wine, then, should you choose to cook with?
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They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and oatmeal is a staple in our arsenal of healthy options to get us off to a good start in the morning. Simple to make, it requires as little as two ingredients: oats and either boiling water or milk. A bowl of oatmeal is healthy.
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There's nothing like digging into Chinese food when it's steamy and fresh. But reheating it in the microwave can destroy the entire experience.
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A video posted to TikTok has been making headlines — it features a McDonald's ice cream hack that seems perfectly designed for summer.
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If the items you can't live without are from Aldi, the supermarket is giving you a chance to tell them how you really feel in its second Fan Favorites survey. The survey is also where you can tell the store why something shouldn't have been pulled from the shelves.
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The Sam's Club Cafe isn't messing around when it comes to satisfying your hunger. Here's some of the most surprising secrets you'll wish you knew sooner.
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When we talk about an inexpensive pasta dinner, you might imagine a blob of jarred red sauce sitting atop a tired pile of plain noodles which is, thankfully, nothing close to what we're about to describe.
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Kroger grocery stores carry plenty of high-quality items, but sometimes it's better to shop around. Some items do not offer savings that make them worth it.
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Guy Fiery's Brick Burger recipe kicks things up a notch by changing the look, texture, and taste of a burger. Just imagine if your Cuban sandwich was crossed with a favorite cheeseburger and then toasted like a grilled cheese.
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Think twice before you let your precious cargo of cashews languish on a pantry shelf. When exposed to light, heat, and oxygen, the delicate fats contained in nuts can start to break down and turn your treasured macadamias or almonds rancid.
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You might say there's no wrong way to eat chicken wings but the next time you're elbow-deep in a pile of discarded wing bones, take a look at how much tasty chicken skin and meat you've left behind. It's a telltale sign you've been eating chicken wings wrong all along.
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We decided to take on a challenge: try some of these foods — trendy, healthy, or otherwise — for a week, and see what happened. Here's how it turned out.
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Shucking oysters can be dangerous business if it is not done properly. Fortunately, there is a way to open oysters without the knife. Just keep these methods to yourself and don't tell your elitist oyster friends about how you accomplished this feat, or they might give you a hard time.
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A great salad usually hits different parts of our palate by having sweet, salty, and sour or acidic components. That's why Giada DeLaurentiis' unusual secret ingredient makes salads so good. It adds not only great, crunchy texture to the dish, but offers a more filling meal with its richness too.
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Because spices tend to be sold in bulk and recipes only call for small amounts of ingredients such as cumin and nutmeg, your spices can lose their pungency after sitting in the drawer for a few years. Spices don't actually spoil and won't make you ill, but can lose their bite.
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The table is set, the candles are lit, the wine is poured. You sit down to a beautiful chicken dinner, biting into meat that's so dry, your dinner guests guzzle half the wine on their first bite. What happened? You listened to Martha Stewart when she taught you how to time the cook on your chicken.
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Dense waffles are a flop like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator: Dark Fate. They're a heartbreak as tear-jerking as the last episode of Friends. Thankfully, we've got a hack that'll keep your waffles light, airy, and crispy.
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If you want to start a real argument, claim that your way of cooking ribs is the only way. But whatever your personal preferences, there are certain rules to follow when it comes to cooking righteously good ribs.
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Learning to properly separate an egg is a little like learning to drive a car with a stick shift. Using the shell-to-shell method can be as precarious as trying to ease up on the clutch and down on the gas at the same time. Why not consider a little insurance policy to pave the way for you?
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Americans eat 23 pounds of ice cream on average each year. But before you can enjoy a scoop of your favorite flavor, you have to wait for it to soften.
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Eggs and oatmeal are two quintessential breakfast items, respectively. So, cooking them up together and serving them in a single bowl might sound like a stretch to breakfast fundamentalists. But, hear us out. Cooking your oatmeal with an egg is the perfect way to level up your breakfast routine.
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Licking raw dough off the spoon while waiting for cookies to bake is one of the great joys of childhood that, looking back on it as an adult, you realize was actually pretty unsafe. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are two ingredients that can make you very sick.
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Coffee loverswarn you that this is not a bargain — if anything, the retailer should be paying you for inflicting their substandard beans upon your palate.
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While the French press method of coffee making has been around since the mid-19th century, it's lately had quite the resurgence in popularity. The problem with French presses, according to coffee expert Alex Azoury, is that hardly anyone knows how to use them.
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The only thing worse than not finding a toy in your cereal is ruining a beautiful bowl of sweet and crunchy cereal with the dust at the bottom of the bag.
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