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Please Soak Your Ground Meat in Heavy Cream Next Time
1Ground meat can be awfully grim without a little help. Baking soda is fantastic for spiffing up a quick sauté, but if you’re cooking ground meat for much longer, you should marinate it in heavy cream first. As this bronzed goddess of a labneh-brined chicken clearly proves, dairy does great things to meat. Their beautiful…
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9 Foods You Really Do Not Need to Refrigerate
With the exception of salt and canning, nothing has changed the food preservation game quite like the refrigerator. Lowering a food’s temperature can prolong freshness and stave off bacterial growth — but in some cases, it can also change its texture and flavour for the worse.
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Always Buy Both Canned Milks
Canned milk is a minefield. Even if you know the difference between sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk, it is startlingly easy to purchase the wrong one. Don’t get me wrong: I love them both. Sweetened condensed milk makes an excellent caramel sauce (in your slow cooker or Instant Pot), an easy batch of fudge,…
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Please Don’t Thaw Frozen Steak Before Cooking It
Before we get to the cooking, let’s talk about freezing steak.