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Kitchen Tips

How to crack eggs, crush ice, kill fruit flies, and other helpful hints.

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How to Remove Seeds from Canned Tomatoes

Repurposing a common kitchen tool.

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How to Keep Okra from Getting Slimy

It just takes a little hot oil.

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How to Deal with Rusty Cast Iron

It’s not a castoff.

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How to Hone a Knife

An expert from the Brooklyn Kitchen demonstrates how to get your steel aligned.

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How to Choose an Artichoke

Big stalk = big heart.

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How to Make an Ecofriendly Surface Cleaner

Simple ingredients are all you need.

Supertaster

Supertaster Hits the Minnesota State Fair

This week’s mission: running the gastronomic gauntlet that is the Minnesota State Fair. (By James Norton)

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Transporting Pie Dough

How to get it from the counter to the pie plate.

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Lazy Man's Panini

This week’s mission: three brands of frozen, microwavable panini. (By James Norton)

Supertaster

Huffable Chocolate

This week’s mission: no-calorie powdered chocolate in an asthma inhaler–type device. (By James Norton)

Supertaster

The Ultimate Carb Machine

This week’s mission: Pasta dinner inside hollowed-out rolls. (By James Norton)

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How to Crush Ice for Cocktails

From solid cube to melty shards, with satisfying blows on the counter.

Obsessives

Obsessives: Cookbook Peddler

If it’s a food book, Nach Waxman’s got it. (By Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin)

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How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract

Get the goodness straight from the bean.