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Grill Tender Vegetables Right on Your Charcoal Chimney
If you cook with charcoal, you need a charcoal chimney. It’s not that you can’t get your coals hot without one, but using one really speeds up the process, and ensures your coals are consistently scorching every time. Even with a chimney, it takes about half an hour to get them white hot and ready…
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The Easy Way to Keep Your Brussels Sprouts From Sticking
Cruciferous vegetables, like the Brussels sprout, are hearty, bitter, and tough. Roasting them in a hot oven is an excellent hands-off way to imbue them with flavour and soften them up without losing that distinctive chew. Typically, roasting Brussels sprouts involves halving them, and placing them cut-side down to char on the pan. Somehow browning…
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Roast Your Broccoli at a Lower Temperature
Broccoli is a journeyman vegetable. Consistent and dependable, it does exactly what you ask of it every time, without requiring much fanfare or an overly precious cooking method. The stalks can be cooked in a myriad of ways, most of which are pretty good, but roasting has the best effort-to-reward ratio — especially if you…
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Get Violent With Your Cake Batter
Baking is meditative. It’s methodical, deliberate, and rewards you positively at the end. Plus, there’s periodic cracking, kneading, punching, and beating involved. If you’re baking a cake or pan of brownies, there’s also smacking. The quickest way to evenly spread thick batter in a pan is not with a spoon or spatula, but with a…