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Hacks involving the general use and consumption of food, as well as the storage, preservation and transportation of food.

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Quick and dirty substitute for cream in coffee?

Ice cream is always a good option. Vanilla ice cream is probably the most straightforward.
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Refreshing and preserving crackers

If you have a toaster oven, you can lay them on a metal tray or a sheet of aluminum foil, and toast them for 1-2 minutes. Only toast the ones you're planning to eat right then. I've done this with ol …
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How to make hot chocolate come out right?

You can try this experiment: add the cocoa, add a small amount of hot water (just a few tablespoons should do), and stir thoroughly. Completely dissolve the cocoa in the small amount of hot water. Th …
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How can I keep take-away fries crispy longer?

I'm pretty sure that if you toast them in a toaster oven, they will become crispy again. Lay them out in a single layer on the toaster oven tray, or on a sheet of aluminum foil, and toast them like yo …
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easy way to break off pieces of baking chocolate

I can think of 2 options. Add your own indentations. That is, figure out the size you need, and score it to that size with a serrated knife (like a large bread knife). It should break off very easil …
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Making better smoothie?

This should prevent the protein powder from getting stuck to the walls of the jar: Pour in your liquid. Add everything else (fruit, ice cubes, etc.) but don't add the protein powder yet. Put the lid …
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How to avoid crumbs when cutting a crispy bread?

You can place a cooling rack, or an oven rack, across your kitchen sink. The loaf goes on top of that while you're cutting slices. All the crumbs wind up in the sink, which makes them easy to rinse do …
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How to break an egg without making noise?

Mask the sudden crack of the eggshell behind other, gentler noises. For example, you could gradually turn on the water in the sink, slowly increase the stream until it's a loud (but gentle) hiss, and …
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How to extract a cracker from a wrap with many crackers, without tearing the whole wrapping?

You aren't stuck with the nylon / cellophane of the packaging; you can reinforce it! Image 2: Apply adhesive (Scotch) tape around one end. That's shown as purple. Image 3: Cut the left, top, and rig …
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How to properly eat crumbly food with your hand?

(You need your hands for that process but your hands never need to touch the messy food.) … You just need a couple inches of bag above the level of the food in order to keep them from spilling. …
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Get Just a Portion of a Block of Frozen Pasta

My wife and I cooked too much elbow macaroni one night, so we put it in a gallon freezer bag in the freezer. A few days later when I took it out, it had formed a solid mass the size of an eggplant. I …
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Getting the stringy stuff off a clementine / tangerine easily?

An alternative would be to press a sticky food against the tangerine strings, then peel it/them off. The only sticky food I can think of at the moment is soft caramel. …
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How to store bananas and keep fruit flies away?

Drape mosquito netting over them, or use some similar fine mesh. That allows air to flow and (if the holes are small enough) will prevent fruit flies from landing on them. Just make sure to "tent" the …
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When shopping for bulk food, how to get a whole-whatever-you're-getting and not a bunch of c...

(Just borrow one from a neighboring bulk-food bin). Use scoop 1 to take a LARGE quantity of the walnuts (more than you need). Shake scoop 1, to filter down some of the smaller pieces to the bottom. … Empty scoop 1, which now just has small pieces, back into the bulk food bin. Shake scoop 2, which now has a higher concentration of whole walnuts, to filter down more smaller bits to the bottom. …
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How can I toast chocolate chip bread?

You can toast bread in a flat frying pan on a stove top. Be sure to flip the bread to toast both sides. Some of the chocolate may melt out, but you should be able to scrape it off of the pan with a sp …
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