If you’re a social drinker, it’s likely that from time to time you may consume jelly shots. If you don’t want to clean up hundreds of disposable cups after the party and especially if you have a compost bin you may want to consider using fresh fruit to contain your gelatine libations.
There’s nothing worse than cracking open a rotten egg, but it can sometimes be hard to tell if your eggs have gone bad just by looking at them. About.com shows us a simple trick for telling if an egg is bad, without having to open it up and see.
If you’re making cupcakes for a party and you need to leave now you can skip the few minutes it takes to ice them by adding a marshmallow to the top of each cupcake five minutes before the end of the baking period.
The recommended method of thawing frozen meat overnight in the fridge requires advance planning and takes time. As a quicker alternative, many people submerge frozen meat in cold water. But there’s an even faster method: hot water baths.
Love wine but don’t have the time, patience, or inclination to aerate your wine in a decanter forever before drinking? Former Microsoft CTO and master chef Nathan Myhrvold suggests a method he calls “hyperdecanting”. Sounds fancy and high-tech, right? It’s basically shorthand for “put your wine in a blender for a minute and it’ll taste better”.
Pomegranates can be delicious, but they take a lot of work to peel and deseed. YouTube user NaturalMarketer shows us how much time we’ve wasted by deseeding an entire pomegranate in mere seconds.
Finding a good ripe avocado can be difficult. If you get one that’s not quite ripe enough to eat but you’re dying to make up some tasty guacamole, food blog Tasting Table recommends storing the avocado in a paper bag with a banana.
If you’d like to have caramel handy for baking projects or just eating with a spoon you can make it easily by boiling a closed can of condensed milk in water for two hours.
Ever have one of those cans of tomato soup that don’t seem to want to come out of the can? Reddit user drmario422 found that if you puncture the bottom of the can, the soup falls straight out every time.
This may well be news to you, but March 14 has been deemed Steak & BJ Day. The idea is that one month on from Valentine’s Day, there needs to be a less frilly, more masculine event. If you like the sound of that idea, we’ve collected together some of our best steak-cooking hints.
