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Category:
food
Kawaii
The open-air kitchen
Hara Hachi Bu
Cake wreck
The tomato test
The metrics onion
Stock, Broth, Jus
Deseed a pomegranate
Stop chopping board slip
The Egg Float Test
Fruit vs vegetable
The Hungry Gap
Compose a cheeseboard
Pour, don’t dip when sharing snacks.
Crossmodal perception
Tame unruly crisp packets
Freeze lemons and limes
Set your table in time-honoured positions.
Don’t cut the nose off brie
Cream tea: Cornwall vs Devon
Scoville scale: chile heat via capsaicin content
Sleepy foods
What’s the difference between mandarins, clementines, satsumas and tangerines?
De-seed pomegranates in a bowl of water
Cuts of beef
Cooking at altitude
Use serrated knives for foods with a hard outside and soft inside
Hedgehog a mango
Open bananas like a monkey
Metaphors for ideas
The law of diminishing brownies
Roll limes before squeezing and you’ll get more juice
If its not good enough for bugs, it’s not good enough for you
Gelato, sorbet and ice-cream
Use crushed garlic and ginger in most of your cooking
Rules of thumb for cooking steak
Trim beans in one cut through the packet
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants
3 Miscellaneous cooking tips
Portemanteau food
Wrap cheese in paper towel to reduce mould
When combining cereals, layer milk-resistant cereals at the bottom
Shop healthy
Marshal frozen peas and such
Cook rice like a pro
Buy half-price stilton after Christmas
Twist your spaghetti
Cut an onion into teeny pieces
Cook delicious, yummy, Thai curry
Make Vietnamese coffee
Remove troublesome lids
Make a Wayne’s World pizza
Poach an egg in the microwave
Cooking is bucket science