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This Viral Fruit Gushers Hack Changes Everything

If you left Fruit Gushers behind in your childhood — much like that stuffed animal you took everywhere — you might want to reconsider.

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The Whiskey Cocktail You Can Create Using Pasta Water

If you're anything like us, you're a stickler for a good whiskey cocktail. You, of course, can already make a mean whiskey sour, Manhattan, old-fashioned, John Collins, and mint julep. Next on your list? If it's pasta night, how about a "Carbonara Footprint"? Save your pasta water!

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The Most Surprising Recipes That Use A Can Of Soup

As it turns out, this is where canned soup really starts to shine — as a mystery ingredient that can be used to, well, soup up a wide variety of different recipes. While you may be familiar with the whole concept of using canned cream of mushroom (or cream of anything else) soup in casseroles...

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Here's How You Make Your Own Lemon Vodka With Just 3 Ingredients

If you find yourself botching multiple sourdough starters and running out of interesting banana bread recipes, it might be time to switch from baking to bartending. Vodka is a wonderfully versatile spirit to work with, and it's super easy to infuse with lemons.

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You've Been Storing Fresh Herbs Wrong Your Whole Life

Often when people buy herbs at the grocery store, it's simply for the use of one or two sprigs and then the remainder languishes in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator for a few days until they're deemed to be past their prime and then get thrown out. There is a better way to store them, though.

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The Real Reason You Boil Pretzels In Baking Soda

Soft pretzels aren't particularly difficult to make, so long as you follow one necessary step. Soft pretzels have to be boiled in baking soda before they're baked. Why is that?

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Julia Child's Trick For Easy Poached Eggs Changes Everything

People tend to think of poached eggs as one of the most difficult ways to cook eggs. There is so much fuss over poaching eggs to the point that it makes it seem kind of like an unattainable breakfast.

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The Secret To Cooking A Perfect Steak In The Oven

How do you get that aggressive sear and that consistent interior in the same steak? The secret is to pan fry the steak first, then finish it off in the oven.

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Here's How To Use Your Salad Spinner To Defrost Shrimp

Meanwhile, frozen items can take a while to defrost at room temperature. There's always the option of thawing frozen foods in the microwave, but when you're working with seafood, it can result in some unsavory smells in the kitchen that tend to linger. Enter the salad spinner!

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This Costco Croissant Hack Will Change Everything

Who is not down for a yummy, flaky, buttery croissant for breakfast or brunch (or for a snack)? These crescent shaped masterpieces of the French culinary world are absolute perfection with your morning coffee on any day of the week. The only thing that could make these soft, pillowy pastries better?

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Here's How To Make Wine In Your Instant Pot

While you may not need yet another reason to love your instant pot, we're going to give you one that may make you love yours so much you want to marry it — yes, it's true, you really can make wine in your instant pot! We're not talking mulled wine, either, but actually turning fruit juice to wine.

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This Is The Best Thing To Make With Hot Cocoa Mix That Isn't Hot Cocoa

Hot cocoa mix is one of those items we tend to pick up and always have on hand in the back of the pantry. While it's an easy mix for quick hot chocolate during cooler months, the sweetened, chocolatey, pre-packaged item serves as a good base for other dishes, too.

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The Recipe You Should Know How To Make, According To Gordon Ramsay

Ramsay took part in a question and answer session on Reddit in which a user asked the famously-cantankerous cook what the five dishes were that he thought everyone should be able to cook. The seven-star Michelin chef responded with some interesting choices (via MasterClass).

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The Game-Changing Potato Recipe You're Not Making

Real Simple simply raves about the new potato preparation technique that involves cooking them in butter (actually a relatively moderate and totally non-Paula Deen-ish amount of the stuff) and chicken stock, calling these potatoes "creamy, caramelized coins that melt in your mouth."

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Here's How To Stop Overcooking Your Fish

In order to understand how to cook fish so it's not overdone, experts think you'll probably need to understand the difference between fish and other types of meat.

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This Is Chrissy Teigen's Secret To A Perfect Tuna Melt

While Teigen's recipes provide quite a large variety, the idea is that all of the food is centered around a theme, as the title says, Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat. And when it comes to the food we want to eat, her tuna melt tops the list.

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Here's How To Make Peanut Butter At Home

Homemade peanut butter is as simple or fancy as you want to make it. You can easily just put peanuts in a food processor to make healthy peanut butter.

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This Viral Boxed Cake Mix Hack Changes Everything

When it comes to time management, just ask a mom. Karly Stoddard is the time-saving mom we all need when it comes to baking hacks. This particular hack may change the way you make boxed cakes forever.

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The Easy Trick To Making Keto Popcorn

If you're following a keto diet and want to eat popcorn, then you might find yourself disappointed. Popcorn can be a great, filling snack that is relatively low in calories, but it does contain plenty of carbs, which means it isn't a great fit for those strictly following a keto diet.

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Kylie Jenner's French Toast Hack Has Everyone Talking

The youngest Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, recently added her cooking skills to the mix and it's an amazing French toast hack.

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This Viral 5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe Changes Everything

The most recent viral baking idea endorsed by the users of TikTok involves just five ingredients: 1 cup each of light brown sugar and peanut butter, an egg, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, and a half cup of chocolate chips to be mixed, and rolled into balls, before they are popped into a 350 degree oven.

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Why You Should Never Throw Away Your Empty Sriracha Bottle

Tran told Quartz his dream "was never to become a billionaire." He just wanted "to make enough fresh chili sauce so that everyone who wants Huy Fong can have it. Nothing more." Thankfully for us, he has done just that. However, hot sauce fanatics can go through bottles of Sriracha very quickly.

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The Truth About Beer Bread

We often think of beer as something icy cold to shotgun or chug on a warm day, enjoyed at a barbecue, or a drink we nurse at a bar when we're with friends watching a game. But turns out, beer can be so much more than the cheap drink that college kids rely on for good times.

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The One Thing You Should Be Doing To Make The Best Egg Salad

Varieties to the standard concoction of hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and mustard can include dozens of mix-ins. There are lots of things which are added to an egg salad to spice it up; it's not often you see a different way to prepare eggs, which are hard boiled in most recipes. That is, until now.

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This Is The Weirdest Way You Can Cook An Egg

How would you like your eggs? Bon Appétit doesn't want you to feel constrained to the usual answers. In fact, Basically editor Amiel Stanek shows you 59 ways to cook (or not cook) an egg in an episode of his popular "Almost Every" video series. Here's the weirdest way to cook an egg.

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We Finally Know How To Make Shake Shack's Cheese Sauce

Another favorite restaurant just dropped one of its recipes, and the Shake Shack cult has a lot to be happy about. The heralded fast-casual chain recently released how to make its famous cheese sauce, and the internet is excited. The process is not as easy as melting Velveeta, but it's better.

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The Recipe Every Cook Should Know How To Make, According To Bobby Flay

Even if you don't have the fame and career success of Bobby Flay, there's still one dish that he believes every home chef should be able to make.

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