food hacks
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You Can Make Croquembouche in the Microwave
It’s pretty hard to beat a towering pile of caramel-drizzled profiteroles for drama alone, but the mighty croquembouche isn’t a low-effort joint — unless you use your microwave.
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This is How You Cook the Perfect Steak, According to Melissa Leong
In an episode of Celebrity MasterChef from 2021, judge Melissa Leong dropped a clever hack to help folks learn how to cook a steak.
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Please Butter Your Hard-Boiled Eggs
Buttered eggs are more than a logical shortcut. They completely transcend their description, though it’s not immediately clear how.
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There’s Yet Another Reason to Save Those Cheese Rinds
Saving cheese rinds from Parmigiano Reggiano and the like is a classic, time-honoured, no-waste hack. (Lifehacker first covered it more than a decade ago.) It’s delightfully surprising, then, to find a new use for the cheese butts, but that’s just what the clever people at Food52 have done. I’m not saying you should stop chucking…