Kitchen Hacks

  • NewsEatingWell

    7 Clever Ways to Use Lemons Beyond Garnishing Cocktails

    Lemons evoke sunshine in every way—from their cheery, yellow complexion and squeaky-clean scent to the fresh, bright flavor they impart to any dish. Use a Microplane grater to remove the zest from a lemon.

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    6 Recipes to Make in Your Muffin Tin That Aren’t Muffins

    Cooking in a small kitchen can turn anyone into a minimalist. A cake pan? Forget about it; birthdays only come once a year. A toaster oven? Let your broiler do the work! But the one must-have tool you must keep in your cooking arsenal is the muffin tin.

  • NewsStephanie Smith

    This Is How You Can Open a Beer Bottle Without an Opener

    It’s the middle of the big game, and you reach for a cold beer. You look for the beer opener. By the bar? Nope? Under the 7-layer dip? Uh-uh. You’re dying of thirst, your host is too busy refilling the pigs-in-a-blanket tray, and the team you’re rooting against just scored a touchdown. What do you do?

  • NewsStephanie Smith

    10 Facts and Hacks About Your Favorite Fruit, the Avocado

    Avocados are awesome. They’re packed with healthy fats and they’re great as a snack, a salad ingredient, a base for guacamole, or sliced on tacos or sandwiches.

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    11 Microwave Hacks to Get Delicious Food Into Your Belly Faster

    We know microwaves are great for reheating leftovers, but their strange, fast, clean type of molecular agitation can be used in a bunch of surprising ways. Here are our current favorite tricks. From Food Network Kitchen More from Food Network:11 Surprising Recipes for the Microwave12 Things You Din’t Know You Could Make in Your Waffle Iron11 Ingredients That Will Last Forever (Well, Almost)8 Foods You Should Not Refrigerate 

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    These Are the Best and Worst Ways to Cut Onions Without Crying

    There are plenty of myths, legends, and old wives’ tales out there about how to cease the flow of onion-induced tears, so I tried ‘em all – using a white, yellow, and red onion – to determine the best ways to keep tears locked deep, deep inside the recesses of my soul, like a real man. I did a controlled test first, without any preventative measures, and spoiler alert: it stung the crap out of my eyes.

  • NewsStephanie Smith

    Three Garlic Hacks to Make Cooking So Much Easier

    Garlic is delicious no matter how you slice it, but peeling or mincing those small cloves can be tedious. There are some easy kitchen tips and tricks to handling garlic like a pro.