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How to Easily Hull Strawberries

How to Easily Hull Strawberries

It seems so simple you're going to say "Why didn't I think of that?" Use a straw and push up through the bottom of the strawberry, pushing the hull off.

It just makes sense to use a "straw" for "strawberries"! Right?

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How to Easily Hull Strawberries

Knowing When Egg Whites Are Beaten Enough

Sweating Versus Sauteing Onions

Bulding Up Flavors

The Mixing and Matching of Making Your Own Vinaigrette

Make That a 50:50 Mix of Butter and Oil

Successful Pan Frying

Feeling Your Flavor

Choose Your Vegetable Oils Wisely

How to Tell When Your Oil is Hot

What Do You Want the Final Dish to Look Like?

Cooking and Eating Use All of Your Senses

What is "Mise en place"?

Trick to getting the seeds out of vanilla bean

Trick to Caramelizing Onions

Cooking Steak to Perfection

Gesiers (French for corned chicken gizzards) - Don't knock 'em until you try them

A Tip for Successful Barbecuing

The trick to chopping garlic

Temperature control is not just about cooking temperatures

Trick to cooking potatoes so they don't come out mushy

Grilling meat is tasty but not healthy

Hints for using a pressure cooker

How to sear fish

Metric Conversion Chart

Steaming is one of the best ways to cook vegetables

How to minimize loss of vitamin C during preparation and storage

Healthiest cooking method to preserve vitamin C

Prepping apples for Baked Apples

Cooking pasta with salt

Preserving the juices in your meat

How to grate softer cheeses

Don't rinse your pasta

Bring meat to room temperature just before cooking

Conversion Table for Measuring

Making lowfat foods more flavorful with marinades and dry rubs

What does it mean to "brown" food?

What does it mean to "simmer" food?

How to slice raw meat very thinly

Make a dessert more elegant with chocolate shavings

Keeping sodium in check

Egg substitutes

Getting more value from your cheese calories

Tasting as you cook

How to secure a cake to the platter

Grating cheese without the mess

Tricks to cooking vegetables

Keeping track of ingredients you add

Testing cakes for doneness

Safe Cooking Temperatures

Taking the mess out of greasing a pan

How to core an apple without removing too much of the fruit

Making aluminum foil large enough to cover a large turkey

Various cooking methods to minimize the fat you use

Member Question: Should I use commercial produce washes?

Different ways to cut up food

How to get meals on the table quickly

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