Food Hacks

Become the Memorial Day Grill Master [Grilling]

Memorial Day marks the start of the serious grilling season, and there's no better weekend to try your hand at outdoor cooking, or bolster your established grill master game. Luckily, honing your...
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Pit a Ripe Avocado the Easy Way [Cooking]

If there's one useful thing that I learned when I moved to California, it's how to slice and pit a ripe avocado. Forget scooping out the pit with a spoon and losing any bit of that precious green...
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De-Clump Sugar with a Slice of Bread [Household]

You're about to do some weekend baking and pull out the container of brown sugar only to find it's dried into a collection of hard clumps. The LifeSpy blog says you can use a slice of bread to...
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Learn to Cut a Pineapple With Confidence [Food]

Few foods evoke the feeling that warm weather has returned like the pineapple, but even fewer foods inspire such quizzical reactions when it comes time to actually serve the thing. Instructables...
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Add Flavor to Your Water with Natural Add-Ins [Health]

Water—it helps maintain energy, it can break a sugary soda habit, but glass after glass of the plain stuff can leave you longing for something with more kick. The Wise Bread blog offers up a...
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Getting Dinner Done with a Weekly Meal Plan [Planning]

The organized bloggers over at Unclutterer say that answering the question "What's for dinner?" is a lot easier if you've got a plan—a weekly meal plan, that is. Map out your "utilitarian...
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Get Optimally Wired with Caffeine [Caffeine]

It's no secret that people the world over use caffeine as a work stimulant, but weblog Developing Intelligence suggests that you may not be getting the most form your caffeine high. For example, the...
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Keep Onions Fresh in Pantyhose [MacGyver Tip]

Onions can stay fresh for up to six months (!)—if you store 'em well. Over at the Serious Eats boards, a user points out that a Trader Joe's onion label instructs the consumer to store them in...
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