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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Now we have a new French chef, who's sharing his cooking techniques the modern way: on YouTube. Bruno Albouze's The Real Deal Cooking Channel has over three quarters of a million subscribers. Albouze shared with Today just what makes his French-style scrambled eggs so creamy and delicious.
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Everyone loves to save money on food, especially when they can get something delicious like a hot dog. But you should avoid these $1 hot dogs.
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The Moist Maker is described by the show as the best Thanksgiving leftover sandwich ever made, thanks in part to a gravy-soaked slice of bread which Monica ingeniously tucks into the center.
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Pad thai is a comfort food for many people, a hangover cure for others, and a common order from those think that other menu items on the menu at a Thai restaurant would be too spicy for them to handle. Once you master the tricks and build your pantry, it's also possible to make at home.
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If you're interested in coffee making, you first need to recognize some of the most common coffee mistakes you're probably making at home.
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If you're eating only egg whites, you're eating your eggs wrong. Egg yolks, after all, contain all an egg's vitamins and minerals.
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Almost every recipe holds the same advice when it comes to preparing kale: Cut or pull the leaves away from their thick, fibrous stems. Nine out of ten times, it's the leaves you want, so that you can simmer them, sauté them, grind them into pesto, or toss them into a warm grain salad.
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The real secret to eating potatoes starts way before you chow down, with the prep work. There's one step you can remove from your prep routine: peeling them.
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There's so many delicious ways to prepare chicken like chicken. But let's be honest, the best kind of roast chicken is tender on the inside and crispy on the outside. we're letting you in on the secret to achieving that.
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Have you ever heard of city chicken? No, it's not a new entrant to the ongoing fast-food chicken sandwich wars. In fact, it's not a chain at all, and it's definitely not anything new, and it isn't even chicken. What it is, is a regional specialty that dates back to the Great Depression.
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There's one addition to a burger which will enhance the juiciness of the patty without changing the flavor at all, and everyone has it in their kitchen.
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