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Trim a little of the fat off the edge of the cut of meat and put that in the hot pan first. Wipe it around to lubricate the pan, then put the meat in to fry. If you don't have a knife handy, you cou …

On the other end of the closure from that in your photo, you can pluck the thread of the last stitch on one side (the "flat" looking side, as I recall) between two points of penetration through the ba …

This may not kill mold spores, but they won't grow at freezer temperature -- so the food won't have any more mold on it when you take it out of the freezer than it did when it went in. …

Based on my experience, hotter water is the biggest help. If your water is close to boiling, and your cocoa isn't too stale, it should dissolve almost instantly. For whatever it's worth, I've always …

If you're buying from the bulk bin, it's virtually impossible to avoid getting some broken pieces of, say, nut meats. One way to deal with this is to buy a slightly larger weight of product than you …

I simply buy "spreadable butter" -- this is real butter mixed with a small percentage of vegetable oil so it stays soft enough to spread at refrigerator temperature. It's sold in small tubs, similar …

Run around the big end with a conventional can opener (a P38 type will work best for the short radius corners).

It's primarily a radiant cooker, as opposed to the main oven which functions by heating a space and letting the heat "soak into" the food. … size of a large pizza pan) and put the food on it, but that will only work for shorter cook times; the stone won't stay hot under the food because nothing is adding heat from the bottom. …

Dyes will stay dissolved (as food coloring will) but dyes don't have the property of reflection, so can't look white. …

The actual induction heating process will work with any conductive material -- steel, aluminum, copper, even gold (even salted water in a glass pot). Your issue appears to be because the cooktop is f …

The old classic method of preserving shell eggs for long periods without refrigeration was to dip the eggs in water glass (a solution of sodium silicate in water). This would make the shells airtight …

I use wood clothes pins (clothes pegs, as they call them in British English), the kind made from two pieces of wood with a strong steel spring in the middle. They're very inexpensive (last time I bou …

There's a commercial device called a Miracle Thaw -- a simple aluminum plate that you warm in hot tap water and lay the meat on. The high conductivity of the metal quickly transfers heat into the mea …

Wash with a sponge or sponge mop lightly dampened with dishwashing liquid (some brands are specially marked as "grease cutting" or "removes grease"; these are the best for this), then dry with either …

My own preference for homemade bread is to use a bread machine. These can often be had very cheaply from second hand stores -- mine was $8, plus $15 for a new paddle on eBay, so $23 invested, and I d …