Your nice shiny stainless steel refrigerator can easily be damaged if you use harsh cleaners or abrasives. Abrasive materials can scratch the surface of your stainless steel appliance. I have some scratches on the front of my fridge. I have no idea how they got there. But another problem is that these stainless steel appliances can develop rust spots. Don’t worry, you can remove them!
When using oil for frying, you need to have your oil temperature dialed in pretty well. Without a candy or fat thermometer, this can be challenging. There is, however, a pretty good way to test the temperature of your oil to within around ten degrees Fahrenheit or five degree Celsius, using nothing more than an ordinary … Read more
Whenever I see professional pizza makers putting their pizza into an oven, it just slides off the peel as pretty as can be. When I make pizza at home, which I often do, I always find it hard to get the pizza to slide off my pizza peel without messing up the shape of the … Read more
The insides and even the outsides of stainless steel pans can develop white, cloudy spots, like the well-used All-Clad® saucepan shown below. These spots come from mineral deposits left in the pan after boiling water, and the white spots can come from both salt and/or calcium deposits. It may help to make sure you bring water … Read more
It has happened to all of us. We buy a head of celery, throw it in the crisper (how ironic), forget, or just neglect, to use it, and, when we decide to make some chicken salad — we love some celery in our chicken salad — we discover the celery is limp, rubbery, and saggy. … Read more
If you use crunchy corn taco shells, such as Old El Paso or Ortega to make tacos at home, the instructions will tell you to heat them in the oven for around five minutes. This is done to crisp and freshen them up. So, you lay them on a baking sheet, heat them, and to your dismay, you pull … Read more