How Five Guys Really Makes Their Money
With such a simple menu, which item is Five Guys making bank on and using to fuel its year-over-year sales growth?
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The Truth About Trader Joe's Mandarin Orange Chicken
Trader Joe's mandarin orange chicken entree has dominated the Customer Choice Awards since 2017 when it dethroned cookie butter for Favorite Overall. Why is it so good?
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What Is Aquafaba Actually Made Of?
Thanks to aquafaba, you may not need to walk away from dishes that might have otherwise needed an egg white (or more), like mayonnaise and meringues... and yes, even macarons and macaroons.
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Here's How Much Trader Joe's Crew Members Really Make
Trader Joe's isn't just popular with its customers — the grocery store chain also seems to be pretty popular with the employees who work there. If you're thinking about applying for a job at your local TJ's, here's what you can expect to make.
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Spiked Seltzer Brands, Ranked Worst To Best
Whether you're a spiked seltzer newbie or a well-versed veteran of seltzers of the hard variety, read on to view the ultimate guide to the hard seltzer brands .
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How To Make Powdered Sugar From Granulated Sugar
Powdered sugar is the ingredient of many names — it also goes under the aliases confectioner's sugar and icing sugar. No matter what you call it, we're all familiar with the stuff. It's sugar, only, you know, powdery. But is it interchangeable with regular, i.e. granulated, sugar? Not really.
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The Reason You Should Never Put Nonstick Pans In The Dishwasher
Because nothing comes free, there is a price to be paid for using, caring for, and storing non-stick cookware in a way that keeps them at their best. One of the biggest mistakes many people make, in fact, is popping this type of cookware into the dishwasher.
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The Best Way To Freeze Cauliflower
Your cauliflower is on the verge of becoming a shadow of its glorious self. Instead of resigning yourself to turning the cauliflower into soup to hide its sins, or worse, tossing it, you might consider freezing the vegetable and give it a chance to shine another day.
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The Truth About Meat Sweats
It's a medical fact that the process of digestion burns energy, and meat is a complicated item to digest. But is digesting meat such a complicated process that it can actually make a person break into a sweat?
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The Truth About Starbucks' New Non-Dairy Drinks
Non-dairy coffee drinkers now have a special little piece of the Starbucks menu dedicated just to them with the Almondmilk Honey Flat White and Coconutmilk Latte finding a permanent residence.
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Food Trends From This Past Decade We've Already Forgotten About
Food trends come and go, and the 2010s have been no exception. From the ridiculous craze around certain desserts to the rise and fall of a few famous superfoods, these are the food trends from the past decade we've already forgotten about.
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25 Popular Baskin-Robbins Flavors, Ranked From Worst To Best
This is our definitive ranking of Baskin-Robbins' most popular ice cream flavors, from worst to first.
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The Truth About Wendy's Frosty Key Tag
You know what would be the one thing that would make the Wendy's Frosty absolutely perfect, apart from having negative calories, that is? Wouldn't it be amazing if you could get one for free? Well, how about not just one Frosty, but a whole year of them?
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Here's What You Can Substitute For Self-Rising Flour
Most baking recipes, unless you're deliberately trying to adhere to a gluten-free diet, tend to call for one of two different types of flour — either all-purpose or self-rising. So are these basically the same thing? If not, how different are they? Can you just swap one for the other, or what?
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Here's How Much Money Rachael Ray Has Made From Being A Chef
From her humble beginning as a cooking instructor at a local market, Rachael Ray moved into doing a cooking segment for a news show, at which point her relentless perkiness as well as her relatable (read: non-professionally trained) cooking techniques landed her that first Food Network hosting gig.
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Do You Really Need To Wash Bagged Salad?
When you decided to pick up your next meal from the supermarket and settled on a bag of salad from the produce section, chances are you might have heard some of the horror stories about what people might have found lurking among their mixed greens. Should you wash your bagged salad?
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What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Hot Sauce
Hot sauce might hurt, but is it actually doing you good? Read on to find out.
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The Truth About Trader Joe's Cauliflower Gnocchi
Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocchi made a splash with its debut in April 2018, and became so instantly popular that it was hard to get your hands on a single package. Why all the fuss? It's simple but it's also tasty, and it doesn't contain wheat, sugar, dairy, or eggs.
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The Reason You Should Never Put Wooden Utensils In The Dishwasher
When it comes to stainless steel kitchen tools, the dishwasher is usually the go-to cleaning route to take. You would be wise, however, to hold off on throwing that wooden spoon passed down by your grandmother in the dishwasher.
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What Grocery Stores Are Really Hiding With Pre-Marinated Meat
Grocery stores realize that their shoppers are busy folks, and they attempt to simplify by selling pre-marinated packaged meat. All that's left to do is take it out of the wrapper and throw it on the grill. But is this pre-marinated meat any good, and is it worthy of serving at your dinner table?
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Here's What You Can Substitute For Cake Flour
The basic white flour most of us use for our everyday baking needs is called all-purpose flour, and its name pretty much says it all. Every once in a while, though, you might come across a recipe that calls for cake flour — what, exactly is this, and how is it different from all-purpose flour?
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The Real Reason Mario Batali Is Giving Up All His Restaurants
To say that things aren't going well for chef Mario Batali's career at the moment would be an understatement. Abysmal is a better description — and things just keep getting worse. These are the real reasons Mario Batali is giving up all his restaurants.
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The Trick To Cleaning Your Dishwasher With Vinegar
So the dishwasher cleans your dishes, or at least, that is what it should be doing, as long as you don't make the mistake of doing all the work yourself before you load it. In the course of all this cleaning, doesn't the dishwasher itself get a little dirty? And if so, who washes the dishwasher?
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How To Soften Butter Fast
When it comes to baking, there's nothing like real butter — cookies, especially, just don't taste the same without it. While butter lasts longest when it's kept in the refrigerator, fridge butter is hard butter and this can pose a problem for the impatient cook.
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The Secret To Making Perfectly Crispy Hash Browns Every Time
Well-cooked hash browns are a thing of beauty and a joy forever... or at least until they start to get all soggy and mushy and gross. If you want to make sure your hash browns have just the right amount of light golden crunchy crust, there is one secret you've got to know before you get cooking
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Is It Really Safe To Reuse Ziploc Bags?
As great as the Ziploc bag is, most of us are probably guilty of discarding these bags into the trash bin without much thought. After all, when a box of 40 can be purchased for only a few dollars, what's the point in holding onto them?
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The Real Reason Your Bougie Lunch Salad Costs So Much
For a lot of people, eating a healthy lunch is easier said than done. Traditional fast food chains don't tend to offer the healthiest meals, and opting to go the salad route has its drawbacks too -- especially when you consider the price. Why are salads sometimes so costly?
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