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How do you peel garlic easily?
How should I approach peeling a clove of garlic to get the skin off most quickly? Is it different if I'm doing a bulb whole?
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How can I peel pearl onions quickly?
I love pearl onions, but I'm always put off by the idea of peeling every single one. Are there any shortcuts to peeling pearl onions?
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Are there any techniques to “cheat” at cooking a risotto?
Cooking a risotto takes a fair amount of attention and work, adding stock a ladle at a time with almost constant stirring. The chemical process behind this makes sense to me. Are there any ways to ...
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How can I make sifting easier?
I'm at the point where I will completely avoid certain recipes simply because they require sifting and I find it incredibly tedious. Is there a better method? A better tool? A magic sifter?
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Is there a faster/less messy way to stuff manicotti/canneloni?
I've had all the ingredients for stuffed manicotti sitting around in my kitchen for the past 2 days but keep putting it off because I absolutely dread the whole stuffing process.
I usually start off ...
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Making Subway-like salads at home w/ zero work
I often buy salads at Subway because I'm lazy. However, I'm also
cheap, and Subway's markup on salads is quite high.
I want to buy items at a supermarket and simply mix them together to
make a ...
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Give me one answer of a cooking practice or recipe that should have been obsoleted by economics or technology [closed]
Give me one answer of a cooking practice or recipe that should have been obsoleted by economics or technology and yet persists to this day because of tradition.
I am specifically interested in ...
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Is there a technique for glacé (glazing) that could speed up the process?
I saw a recipe for glacéing (is that a word?) cherries, and at one stage they required anywhere from 10 days to 3 weeks soaking time. Are there any techniques that could speed this up, or am I just ...
