Category: Tip Of The Day

TIP OF THE DAY: How To Manage Holiday Eating

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Thanksgiving celebrates the season’s bounty. In addition to an elaborate dinner, there’s often a generous amount of pre-dinner munchies: cheese, dips, spreads and more. While they’re all delicious, they can fill up guests so that by the time they sit down at the table, the edge is off the appetite. Some people may have even…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Test For Wine Allergy

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Some wine lovers have an allergy that produces flushing, headaches, hives, rashes and more. Traditional advice is to avoid sulfites, which are added to many wines as a preservative (to prevent bacterial growth). People with sulfite sensitivity comprise perhaps .2% of the population. Given this tiny number, if you develop symptoms from drinking wine, it…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Secrets Of Salting

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Kosher salt. We use this salt server in THE NIBBLE test kitchen to add pinches of salt as we cook. Since cooking is chemistry, you have to combine ingredients in the right order to get the fluffiest cakes or soufflés, for example. It’s the same with salt: Pay attention to the order in which you…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Calibrate Your Kitchen Thermometer

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CDM meat & poultry thermometer available at Amazon.com. Many kitchen thermometers will be used on Thanksgiving to test the temperature of the turkey. Undercooked turkey means the possibility of salmonella; overcooked turkey most certainly means dry meat. Given that 10 degrees can make the difference between good and dry, how accurate is your kitchen thermometer?…
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