Believe it or not, it is absolutely possible to get by without a big refrigerator in your kitchen. After all, before refrigerators became a household staple in the last century, people somehow managed to store their perishable fruits, vegetables, legumes and meats for an extended period of time with ice boxes, root cellars, evaporative cooling pots, preserving, canning and more.
If you just gave up drinking soda and you don't know what to do with the six-pack of Coke gathering dust in your garage, then this article is perfect for you. The acidity, sugar content and carbonated nature of most soda drinks are perfect for a number of surprisingly practical uses for DIY home projects, garden work, kitchen cleanup, car maintenance, cooking and more.
Other than holding together bundles of pens or creating a miniature catapult for a science project, rubber bands have many other surprisingly practical uses in the kitchen, office, for DIY home projects and more.
If you want to cut down on your sodium intake but don't want to get rid of all the salt in the kitchen, you're in luck. Salt has many unexpected uses, ranging from killing weeds to removing perspiration stains from garments to extending the shelf life of your new natural bristle broom.
Many foods do not come in natural packaging that is as useful and versatile as its content. Eggs are an exception. So, the next time you buy a carton of eggs, be sure to hold onto the eggshells after you are finished cooking with them.
There's no reason to waste a perfectly good Cheeto just because it dropped on the kitchen floor, right? The "5-second-rule" makes it fair game if you can swipe it up fast enough (this doesn't apply for liquids or foods with floor fuzz stuck to them.) But, is that errant piece of chocolate really safe after it's mixed with the bacteria-laden mud from your shoe?
WonderHowTo is a how-to website made up of niche communities called Worlds, with topics ranging from Minecraft to science experiments to Scrabble and everything in-between. Check in every Wednesday evening for a roundup of user-run activities and how-to projects from the most popular communities. Users can join and participate in any World they're interested in, as well as start their own community.
This was a quick snap shot of some flowers in my kitchen. I used a Canon Rebel XS with the 18-55 lens that had a screw on macro lens ($30).
Calling a plumber can run in the upwards of $100. And the $5 Zip-It is... well, five bucks. But if you dig through your recyclables and kitchen drawer, you can whip up this cheap & easy drain declogger for next to nothing. You Will Need:
Dangerously close in resemblance to the over-the-top pizza cone, these mini pizza cups look like muffins. After testing a recipe from My Kitchen Snippets, Serious Eats came up with this:
Nevermind that rock candy is delicious, the prospect of growing it like a scientist (much like the amazing magic garden) surpasses all culinary delight.
Another recipe via Smitten Kitchen. This cake is so pretty! I might just have to make it as a ... VERY ... belated birthday cake for my friend, Elizabeth. I'll post images of my attempt next week.
French artist Alexandre Dubosc celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival with this stop motion animation of baking a cake in a laboratory-like kitchen.
Go from solid cubes to melted shards by crushing ice for cocktails in this way. Some cocktails call for crushed ice rather than ice cubes. Crushed ice melts quicker, and makes more of a slushy drink that is perfect for summer coolers. Watch CHOW Kitchen Editorial Assistant Amy Wisniewski break it down. Crush ice for cocktails.
Slippery surface plus knife equals danger. No lost digits: It’s one of the cardinal rules of kitchen safety. So keep your cutting board stable. Stabilize a slippery cutting board.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Cook up his venison with red wine and chocolate sauce for those special dinners. Make Red Wine & Chocolate Venison with Gordon Ramsay.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to teach you to cook like pro. Tonight he shows you how to make a decadent hot chocolate souffle. Make hot chocolate souffle with Gordon Ramsay.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. He shows you how to prepare pain perdu with caramelized peaches and a raspberry coolie. Because this dish is a lot like French toast it makes it perfect for breakfast. Make Gordon Ramsay's pain perdu with peaches.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Tonight he makes pan roasted chicken breast with a creamy morel mushroom sauce. Make morel mushroom chicken with Gordon Ramsay.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Tonight he'll show you how to prepare aubergine caviar, or eggplant caviar. Its the poormans's caviar. Make aubergine caviar with Gordon Ramsay.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. He'll show you how to make spice roasted apples and pears. The key to this recipe are the fresh summer pairs, make sure they are not too ripe. Make spice roasted apples and pears with Gordon Ramsay.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Tonight he'll demonstrate how to prepare a pan fried chicken with a morel sauce. Make asparagus morel chicken with Gordon Ramsay.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Tonight he makes a delicious rabbit fricassee dish with tagliatelle. Pay attention the secret ingredient for the sauce is the grainy mustard. Cook rabbit fricassee with Gordon Ramsay.
To turn off your water supply you need to locate the stop tap. It is usually under the kitchen sink. Follow the cold water pipe along and you will find it. Turn it off like a normal tap. Turn off your water supply.
Jacqueline Hansen shows how clean a microwave spotlessly. Using rubber gloves, a microwave bowl, lemon juice, washing detergent, kitchen spray, a soft cloth and paper towels, Jacqueline provides a wonderful demonstration to remove the microwave stains. Clean a microwave spotlessly.
Installing recessed lighting into your kitchen or living room creates an immediate update to the look of your home! Recessed lighting is very low-key, makes a subtle statement, and yet is elegantly modern. If you are looking for an update to your home's lighting, think: "recessed." Install recessed lighting properly.
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Ah, turducken. The fondest of all portmanteau words and the tastiest of all Thanksgiving day meals. Turducken is a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken—three glorious poultry meats molded into one marvelous, boneless hunk of flesh that any sane carnivore wouldn't dare resist. It's slapped together with pork sausage stuffing, sometimes even three different kinds, and caked with Cajun seasonings.
Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of "prayer and thought," effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney.
The microwave has an extraordinary number of uses that goes above and beyond reheating your cold leftovers from last night's dinner. For food-related uses, the microwave can also make your lemons more squeezable for maximum juice output, roast garlic heads, decrystallize hardened honey, dry up fresh herbs, and more.
Hello, life forms and inanimate objects the world over. This week's competition is the Hobo Image Macro challenge, and we want to see more entries! Don't be intimidated by the hobo's dull, yet threatening stare—it's easy to do! Just to prove it, here are ten pieces of Hobo advice I prepared earlier in the kitchen (I live in a studio; it's all the same).
Hey guys, This is my first creation I built on creative. I was trying to build an underground Mansion. I tried to make everything automated by redstone. I can't really take a picture of my redstone creations, so if you like redstone go check it out.
Who would have suspected that vodka had so many practical uses? Vodka can alleviate the sting of a jellyfish, treat poison ivy rash, and help relieve toothaches. For using vodka around the house, soak a clean rag and use it to get rid of bathroom mold, clean your kitchen and bathroom fixtures, and keep your clothes smelling fresh.
Itchy bee stings, sore throats, swelling muscles, minor scraps, splinters... all of these common ailments can easily be fixed with things you've probably got lying around at home in your kitchen and bathroom cabinets. Honey, ginger, castor oil, garlic, baking soda, aloe vera, white vinegar, and chamomile tea are all great natural remedies for your next minor medical need. No drugstore trips required (except for maybe some Elmer's glue).
Not only does a dishwasher save you the manual labor of physically washing your dirty kitchenware, it can sterilize your make-up brushes, launder your favorite baseball cap, and even cook up your next dinner.
Never buy pasta sauce from the supermarket again. Or salad dressing. Or pie crusts, chicken stock, hummus, bread crumbs and other common cooking staples that can be easily replicated within the comfort of your own kitchen.
If you've got a knack for gardening and an inclination for recycling, then you need to know about these six garden hacks. Some of the trash inside your bathroom and kitchen is actually garden gold, so get your recycling hats on.
CalTech's Kenneth Libbrecht reveals the sublime beauty of snow crystals when photographed with a specially designed snowflake photomicroscope. The physicist is author of the Field Guide to Snowflakes and The Secret Life of a Snowflake, and recently posted an instructional guide for growing your own snow crystals.
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Aurora borealis (or the northern lights) is a naturally occurring, beautiful light display caused by "the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth's magnetic field." Below, an electrifying display of time-lapse footage taken in Tromsø, Norway, by Tor Even Mathisen. Shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
