TIP OF THE DAY: Use A Food Mill

Some 40 years ago, the first electric food processors—Robot Coupe (pronounced robo coop) and Cuisinart—became available to American consumers. Designed in Europe for professional kitchens, these handy helpers made food preparation faster and more pleasant for home cooks, spawning an era of more adventurous cooking. Before the food processor, people used electric blenders, hand-cranked grinders…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Turn Use Single-Purpose Appliances Into Multi-Purpose Appliances

One of our friends won’t buy any appliance or gadget that has a single use. As a result, she has no bread maker, no fondue pot, no waffle iron. We emailed her this article from Caifornia-based writer Katie Waldek. She has figured out how to make those single-purpose appliance into multi-purpose ones: Bread Maker. Think…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Eliminate Microwave Spatter & An Excellent Gourmet Pasta Sauce

No need to spatter sauce all over the microwave. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   To save cleaning a saucepan, we often microwave sauces in the bottle or jar. Dessert sauces are thick and don’t spatter. But pasta sauces can create microwave spatters that take more time to clean than the saucepan. Here’s…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Make Perfect Pancakes & Ghost Pancakes For Halloween

Make the pancake, use a ghost cookie cutter. If you have several cookie cutters, you can use them as pancake molds. Boo-ya! Photo courtesy KodiakCakes.com.   Here are ten tips for making a flawless flapjack from Joel Clark, owner of Kodiak Cakes. Kodiak Cakes was one of the better-rated products in our review of 99…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Food Safety Tips, Part 2

How much do you really know about keeping food safe? Yesterday, we published the first half of this list of food safety tips. This is Part 2. SAFETY WITH EGGS Myth #9: “Eggs are safe as long as the shell is not cracked. Germs can only get in through cracks.” Reality: Salmonella, one of the…
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