cookwareandbakeware
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Make a DIY Lazy Susan
Spring cleaning isn’t just about cleaning: It’s about organising, decluttering, and making your home more inviting and efficient. Sure, you’ll spend some time scrubbing, but why not have a fun little project that spruces up your kitchen and makes your spices easier to access — plus makes it easier to determine which are too old…
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That Viral ‘PYREX’ Brand Hack Is Horseshit, Folks
Everyone loves a good kitchen hack, and one of the most popular examples concerns glass cookware. Between Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok, there are hundreds of posts asserting that all-caps PYREX is the good stuff (aka, borosilicate glass), and all-lowercase pyrex is junk (aka, tempered soda-lime glass). If you stick to PYREX-branded products, the reasoning goes,…
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7 Ways to De-Gunk Your Pans
There are so many ways to clean caked-on, baked-on, dried-on residue from your pots and pans, yet I always find myself just kind of sticking mine in warm water and announcing, “I’m going to wash it later. It needs to soak.” This behaviour contributes to the problem. Let’s fix it once and for all by…
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Use a Muffin Tin As a Big Ol’ Trivet
Open up whatever drawer you keep your trivets and hot pads in and count them up. Count your trivets. Count your hot pads. How many do you have? I have four. Usually that is enough.