spoons
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Make This Single-Serve, Crustless Pumpkin Pie in Your Microwave
For whatever reason, I hate-follow a bunch of keto-focused influencer accounts on Instagram. They’ll lure me in with a bunch of meat, then hit me with a bell-pepper-as-bread “sandwich,” a monstrosity I have been familiar with since the Weight Watching days of my very early 20s. They’re also obsessed with microwaveable, crustless “pumpkin pies,” which…
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You Really Shouldn’t Boil Your Wooden Spoons
TikTok is flooded with cleaning hacks, but not all of them are tried and true. One viral hack (which surfaced in 2021 and again in 2023), for example, is about boiling your wooden spoons to keep them clean…but you really shouldn’t bother. Here’s why you shouldn’t boil your wooden spoons.
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Stop Using Round Measuring Spoons
I don’t tend to make product recommendation or write reviews. With the exception of wildly popular appliances like the air fryer and Instant Pot, I try to ensure my recipes don’t hinge on any one piece of equipment, and my own kitchen is stocked with things I inherited, or purchased at Goodwill or the restaurant…
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Not All Salt Is the Same
If you’ve ever taken a basic chemistry course, you know the substance we casually call “salt” is merely one kind of salt. A salt is simply a chemical compound consisting of a positively charged ion (a cation) and a negatively charged ion (an anion). The salt we typically sprinkle on our food is sodium chloride…