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What's a good substitute for basil in pesto sauce?

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Making tomato mix thicker without surge in calories

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Dried basil leaves instead of bay leaves

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Baking bread without yeast

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Processed cheese in pesto

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What is the difference between 100% whole wheat pasta and 100% whole wheat couscous?

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How can I minimize “stringing” of cheddar cheese

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Old bread-slicing tool

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Why is my baguette type bread coming out almost flat?

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Where did my creme brûlée go wrong?

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Experimenting with garlic, does cooking kill the flavour?

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Why does boiling water make dough taste sweet?

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What's 香茜 or 芫荽 in English?

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Trouble making a crunchy dog treat [closed]

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How to extract mouth numbing effect from Sichuan peppercorn into a syrup?

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How do you safely defrost a whole lamb?

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How can I bake muffins without an oven?

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Oven semi-baked semi-fried potatoes starting from raw (for the lazy cook)

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baking pizza

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What are ‘fresh noodles’ in a salad

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Can I make a buttercream using cacao butter?

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What is the difference between cream cheese and sour cream?

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What is the white sediment / residue found in ginger juice?

ginger juicing

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What's this salad of gray lumps in white dressing?

salad

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How does my pre-cooked Costco chicken breast not expire for another 5 weeks?

food-safety chicken

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How does cutting a pork shoulder affect cooking time?

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Why is corn nixtamalized?

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How critical is it to store spices in constant temperature?

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What is this piece of fatty thing, inside a fish (a large snapper) which was near the roe?

fish offal

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Burned water out of pot…popping sound a month later?

pot burnt

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Making large batches of syrups and sauces without reducing the majority of what I originally started with?

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Enzymatic reactions that happen when water and wheat flour is mixed?

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Should I close the vessel while soaking nuts?

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Instant Hummus Pre-cooking without Dehydrating

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