Whether you’re cooking a quick breakfast before work or an intensive dinner for you and your loved ones, cleaning up after cooking is just as important as making the food itself. Keeping your cooking utensils in clean and working condition can making cooking a breeze no matter when you decide to cook next. When it …
How to Toast a Bagel Without a Toaster
There are times when food is meant to be prepared a certain way, and for some reason or another, you’re unable to. Whether it be not having a rice cooker to cook rice or a waffle maker to make waffles, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. For example, you’re wanting to toast …
How To Sharpen Meat Slicer Blades
When it comes to cooking, the utensils you use are just as important as the food you make with them. Making sure that your utensils are in good condition can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. For some, sanitizing and cleaning your utensils can be more than enough. However, you wouldn’t set a professional …
How To Keep Sugar From Clumping
So it’s the weekend and the kids are requesting some tasty treats. You decided to bake some cookies yourself and as you reached for the sugar container, a ghastly sight greeted you! Clumped up together, your sugar might just as well be rock solid. This begs the question, how do you exactly store sugar to …
How to Fix Undercooked Pasta
Pasta has become a staple in many homes and restaurants. Would you believe that such a versatile food is made from just two simple ingredients? Flour and water or egg. Professional chefs will tell you that the correct way to cook pasta is “al dente”. This means that the pasta itself is cooked but is …
How to Slice Meat Thin without a Slicer
When I was learning to cook, everything had to go through my mother. She’d comment on the ingredients, the seasoning, even the presentation. She was very particular when it came to slicing things. Now, my mom grew up in a large, poor household. “More slices mean more mouths fed, so do it thinner,” she’d say. …