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14 Incredible Edible EGG Tricks!

14 tricks for cooking eggs, such as how to make scrambled eggs in their eggshells and how to make a poached egg in the microwave.

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The egg is one of the most widely consumed foods on the planet, so it’s about time we put together a list of nifty tricks involving eggs…

Here is a list of topics we cover:
1. How to balance an egg
2. How to make a sunnyside up egg in the microwave
3. How to make sure your eggs are still good
4. How to make a perfect scrambled egg
5. Make a poached egg in the microwave
6. Soft boiled egg in 5 minutes
7. Scramble an egg in the shell
8. Crack an egg with one hand
9. Remove egg yolk easily
10. Make scrambled eggs in the microwave
11. How to make perfect and easy sunnyside up eggs
12. How to bake your eggs in the oven
13. How to peel eggs easily
14. Poor man’s Sous Vide egg poaching

 

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How To Of The Day: Quickly Cook Pasta In A Frying Pan

Apparently we have been cooking pasta all wrong.

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Harold McGee, author of Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes, shares a handy way to speed your pasta dinner along. Plus it’s ecofriendly!

Most traditional recipes for making pasta tell you to start out with lots and lots of water and heat it up to the boil before you add the pasta. Turns out that you don’t need to do that. You can save a lot of time, a lot of water, a lot of energy by starting out with cold water and a frying pan. Put the pasta in the frying pan. Pour a quart and a half or so of water on top of the pasta. Turn on the heat and, because the pasta is cold, the pasta won’t stick to itself at the very beginning. When it’s done you have pasta that’s perfectly cooked and you have a thickened liquid that you can use to make all kinds of sauces.

 

How To Of The Day: Quickly Cook Pasta In A Frying Pan

 

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Cooking Frozen Steaks

Conventional wisdom holds that frozen steaks should be thawed before cooking, but what if steaks can be cooked straight from the freezer.

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Perhaps you’ve been taught to take your steaks out of the freezer and let them thaw overnight in the fridge before cooking. This is wrong, according to Cook’s Illustrated Senior Editor Dan Souza. In a side-by-side experiment for America’s Test Kitchen, Souza finds that frozen meat takes a bit longer to cook than the thawed variety. But, the quality of the finished product is so much better. In the video below, Souza demonstrates how to properly freeze the meat and later prepare it straight from the freezer. It’s not the same as cooking with fresh beef, mind you, but it’s quite possiby the next best thing.

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Cooking Frozen Steaks

 

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Steam Engine Train Smoker

This video, by Janet Califf, is of an amazing handcrafted steam engine train smoker built by “Illinois Slim”. “Illinois Slim” has been working on the project for three years and built it mostly from scratch. The smoker has a wood-stoked fire that generates steam, along with a working whistle, a bell and much more!

The engineer reveals that he named the train smoker “97″ after the country song “Wreck Of The Old 97” famously sung by Johnny Cash.

For three years, retired iron worker Steve has been working on a homemade steam BBQ smoker that looks like a steam train engine. The miniature train has a boiler and firebox to make the most delicious and tender BBQ chicken. But the best part is releasing steam from the cylinders, ringing the bell, and blowing the steam whistle. All aboard the train to delicious-ville.

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Steam Engine Train Smoker

 

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