How To: Hand wash clothes
In order to hand-wash your clothes, you will need the following: a sink with a stopper, a laundry detergent designed for hand-washing (e.g. Woolite), a stain remover, fabric softener, and a drying rack.
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How To: Treat minor cooking burns at home
It's impossible to learn how to cook without getting burned a few times. First, learn how to avoid getting burned (like using potholders and taking care around hot stoves). If you accidentally get burned, here is how you can treat the minor burns with water and first aid supplies.
How To: Build a tornado or whirlpool tube
Wish you could put a whirlpool in a bottle? How about a tornado? Well, this cool video shows you how to do both. Add food coloring or dish soap to highlight the water or the air. It's a cool project!
How To: Fold an easy and quick origami boat
Got a friend who's got a serious passion for sailing? Then make his or her next birthday extra special by folding these easy and quick origami boats, which can stand up and float in water.
How To: Use Your Iron Correctly & Safely When You're Sewing
The iron is probably the most dangerous tool in your sewing room, especially a steam iron (which is a necessary tool for most sewing projects). Maintain your sewing iron by using clean water. It's also important to know the difference between the pressing and steaming techniques.
How To: Prank Your Friends with a Booby-Trapped Door with Party Poppers
There are a lot of ways to booby trap a door, but this one might be one of the least offensive and most terrifying. This video will teach you how party poppers and a napkin will allow you to scare your friends without soaking anything in water or smashing someone's face.
How To: Build a factory for unlimited cobblestones in Minecraft
You can have an infinitely regenerating cobblestone factory in MineCraft! You will need two buckets of lava, four buckets of water and eighty four blocks of dirt to make this factory that will then start producing unlimited cobblestones for you.
How To: Make festive votives out of ice, leaves, and fruit
This is a very simple technique you can use to light your walkway. You will need several used soda container with the tops cut off, a few poinsettia leaves or frozen cranberries, distilled water, plastic cups, rocks and small votive candles.
How To: Bake and decorate a cake shaped like a hamburger
Um, okay, the question here is why WOULDN'T you want to decorate a cake shaped like a hamburger? If you've got a guy friend who can't get enough of his Double Doubles at In-n-Out, then this burger-shaped cake is going to knock his socks off.
How To: Dry your salad leaves using a cotton pillowcase
Before you toss a salad together it's important that any leaves you use are dry and crisp. Usually you'd use a salad spinner to remove the water, but what if you don't have one and you're low on time?
How To: Make armor out or Sintra and Rub'n'Buff
Make your own armor with a weathered look out of Sintra (or expanded PVC foam). You'll need a heat gun, a padded cushion, paper towels, rub'n'buff in silver leaf, a knife, a marking pencil, water and a can of spray primer. Trace your piece onto the Sintra, then use the heat gun to shape it. Useful for costumes, Halloween or larps.
How To: Homebrew your own mead
For the fantasy lovers, or a person wanting to get into wine making and has always wanted to make their own mead, this video has everything. You will learn how to create your own gallon jug of mead from scratch with raisins, honey, and water!
How To: Fix a leaky toilet with basic steps
Is there toilet water all over the floor and you have no idea why? It could be a leak toilet, which is pretty common if you have faulty supply lines, or the wax rings have worn out. But don't worry, you don't need to call a plumber to ease your woes, in this video you will learn how to fix your leaky toilet with a few household tools and some extra knowledge!
How To: Peel garlic and pearl onions without stickiness
If you're a home cook, peeling garlic is probably not your most favorite part of preparing a meal. Sure, the first one or two bulbs are a cinch, but once you start peeling garlic in larger quantities the inevitable stickiness arises and the garlic becomes harder and harder to disrobe.
How To: Make a person out of sugar paste or ready to use icing
A fun and simple project, you can make little figures of people out of sugar paste. This is a simple and tasty decorating tip to top your next cake or confection. All you need is a little food coloring and a few dabs of water.
How To: Grill corn on the cob with a husky trick
Try corn on the cob with a little outdoor flavor! This video will show you the steps to grilling corn on the cob. If you've never had, then you're missing out a crunchy corn cob delight! The trick is, when peeling the husks back, leave them attached and tie them together with some kitchen string, then soak them in water thirty minutes before you're ready to slap them on the grill.
How To: Color your fondant for cake decorating
Coloring your fondant is actually a very simple process. Like coloring water or your cookies, coloring fondant involves adding a few drops of food coloring and then blending, blending, blending.
How To: Pour pulp and press it into paper
So you're midway through the paper-making process, with the pulp in your blender ready to go. In order to turn pulp into an actual, solid piece of paper you must complete a few more steps.
How To: Stencil caulk onto greeting cards
Caulk is not the first material you'd think of using when crafting a birthday card, but when guided onto the paper in neat designs as created with the help of brass stencils, caulk motifs can be quite beautiful and tactile.
How To: Serve fillet steak, homemade wedges and ice cold beer
What could be better to serve, especially to a group of guys, than succulent fillet steak - cooked to perfection, homemade potato wedges and an ice cold brew? In this episode of Food Mob you will make mouth watering meat that simply melts in your mouth like the kind you find in the best restaurants. Enjoy!
How To: Create a beautiful origami tropical angel fish
Angel fish live in tropical waters and are known for their extremely sharp-looking, angular fins and pointy faces. They also happen to be incredibly beautiful, coming a variety of opalescent colors and often striped like a zebra.
How To: Do long exposure photography of rivers
Have you ever been camping, sitting by a peaceful brook or stream, and wanted to capture the beauty of that delicate flowing mass of water? For most photographers, capturing a river or stream is not hard, but the river often comes out stagnant, frozen in place rather than alive and vital as it is in real life.
How To: Keep your pets' skin, teeth and fur clean and healthy
In this clip, learn how to keep your dog or cat clean as a whistle! Did you know that there are many methods of cleaning your pets these days? For example, if you have a pet who is afraid of the water try Quick Bath wipes instead of a full bath. This clip is full of advice on how to keep you pet bathed and healthy so that they live a long, happy life.
How To: Make garlic and horseradish mashed potatoes
You've made mashed potatoes before, but we can bet you haven't made them like Martha Stewart makes them.
How To: Make Thanksgiving cranberry glaze with Martha Stewart
A cranberry glaze can be used to make your turkey look scrumptously sexy and polished to a Midas glow. The glaze also adds succulent tart flavor to the richness and density of your turkey meat.
How To: Make minty ice cubes to give your drinks extra zest
In this clip, learn how to create a mint flavored ice cube that you can serve in any drink and add a little freshness to it. These cubes are wonderful in iced tea, cocktails, lemonade and even water!
How To: Wash your Xbox 360 controller properly
Video game controllers can get pretty grimey. The more greasy hands that come into contact with your Xbox, the grosser your device will get. In this tutorial, learn how to clean your controller using gloves, water and dishsoap. Follow along and make sure you know what you are doing so that you don't ruin your controller.
How To: Pour absinthe in the French manner
The French are very particular about food presentation and preparation to achieve the best flavor, so it only makes sense that they have a specialized way of pouring absinthe into a glass.
How To: Perform a float fishing cast properly
Float fishing is one of the most popular types of fishing, and the art of casting the pole properly as a part of it is much debated. This video features a professional fisherman demonstrating the techniques he using for casting properly while float fishing. Master these and you are sure to catch more fish and have much more enjoyable days on the water.
How To: Get candle wax out of your carpet
Want to remove dried wax from a carpet? You'll need four items: a white towel, a regular electric iron, a carpet cleaning solution and a hot-water extraction machine. For a complete, step-by-step demonstration of how to remove pesky paraffin wax stains from your own carpet, watch this free housekeeping video tutorial.
How To: Make Vietnamese beef noodle pho soup (pho bo)
Take your dinner table to Vietnam (without the airfare prices) and make a traditional Vietnamese beef noodle pho soup! This is a delicious soup, perfect for a start to any Vietnamese meal. To make this recipe you will need the following ingredients:
How To: Make a tasty salisbury steak
Forget TV dinners, watch this video and sit down to enjoy a delicious salisbury steak. A perfect treat with mushrooms, a side of mashed potatoes, excellent meal for the entire family to enjoy.
How To: Make shrimp in garlic sauce
After watching this video you'll be dying to make this delicious mouth watering shrimp in a garlic sauce. It's quick, easy and perfect for the whole family. Also, easy to make on any budget. Make sure to have fun while your cooking.
How To: Throw playing cards very far like Marvel's Gambit
Scam School host Brian Brushwood demonstrates how to convert a standard playing card into a weapon. By perfecting your release and giving a specific spin, you'll be able to burst a water balloon halfway across the room.
How To: Make a homemade relaxing oatmeal facial mask
Save yourself a fortune by making your very own homemade oatmeal facial mask. Place 6 teaspoons of sweet almond oil into a small bowl. Add 2 drops each of pure violet oil, lavender, neroli oil to the bowl. Add enough oatmeal to the mix and make a paste. Pat onto your face and lay down for 20 minutes. Rinse clean with warm water.
How To: Avoid dry "airplane skin"
Learn how to avoid dry skin that develops on extended airplane flights. 1 Buy a small sprayer (under three and a third ounces, due to airplane security) and lip balm. 2 Every hour that you are on the airplane, spray your face once with the sprayer's fine mist setting. 3 Do not wipe off the water and apply a thin layer of oil free moisturizer. 4 Apply lip balm every hour.
How To: Open a stubborn jar
Want a quick meal, but the jar won't open? Here are some tips: try slamming it on your kitchen counter-top upside down, but not with enough pressure to break the jar. Another option is running hot water over the lid of the jar, to loosen it up. You can wear rubber gloves to give yourself a better grip, as well. This should solve any hurdles in the way of last-minute dinner preparations.
How To: Boil pasta
In the video Boiling Pasta we are taught that there is actually a recipe for how much water to boil per pasta being prepared--1 liter per 100gm--and also what amount of salt--10gm salt to 100gm pasta, after boil. Most people preparing pasta may not know that adding oil while pasta is being boiled will cause it to not adhere to sauce. The video provides many useful tips in preparing pasta, most important of all when it is done just right.
How To: Get rid of the smell of garlic on your hands
When you are using garlic or cooking with it, getting the smell of garlic off your hands can be really tricky. Washing your hands will not to the job by itself. The next time you are using garlic and want to get rid of that smell, wash your hands thoroughly with both soap and water, and then rub them against the stainless steel faucet because the metal with neutralize the odor from your hands and get rid of the smell.
How To: Make huckleberry jam or jelly
From Food Wishes, chef John shows us how to make Huckleberry jam! Ingredients needed to make this delicious spread include huckleberries, sugar, powdered Pectin, water, and some fresh squeezed lemon juice. Use it on your toast in the morning or on top of freshly made waffles for one sweet breakfast!