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  • Social Media Is Wrong About Microwaves

    Social Media Is Wrong About Microwaves

    Microwaves are convenient. Too convenient, perhaps. So convenient that some of us are suspicious of them. When these common appliances were new on the kitchen scene, there were objections to the supposedly unnatural way they heat food — remember that urban legend about the girl who boiled her brain while trying to dry her hair…


  • This Is the Only Right Way to Slice an Onion

    This Is the Only Right Way to Slice an Onion

    “How to chop an onion” is to food videos as “how to do a perfect cat eye” is to makeup tutorials; both have been done to death, yet people keep clicking, because both topics are critically important. And you never know when you might learn something new. I thought I was quite learned in the…