How to resurrect a rotten banana!
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Sub-Urban Life Hack Presents: How to resurrect a rotten banana with household items.
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Doritos Fire Starter
Can you really start a fire in the woods using store-bought snacks like Doritos? Apparently you can.
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You can kindle a fire using just about anything, but when you’re in the middle of nowhere and don’t have a lot of fire-starting supplies, a user at social news site Reddit notes that Doritos make an excellent fire starting material.
Of course, just about any chip will do (and you’ll still need a match or something to spark your fire). User JimothyBilliam says “Cheetos work even better,” survivalist_guy says “So do Fritos,” and user imsabbel offers an explanation for why chips work so well:
All kind of chips work for that. Works as well as birch bark for starting a fire in a hurry.
If you think about it, it’s basically pure hydrocarbons (which burn) soaked in fat (which burns).So while you may not always have vaseline and cotton balls around, chances are pretty good that you do have some form of tasty, oily, fire-friendly chips that should as kindling work in a pinch.
How To Of The Day: How To Peel A Potato In 2 Seconds
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How to peel potatoes really quickly. This simple trick show you a speedy way to peel your potatoes without using a peeler. Great if you’ve got a lot of potatoes to peel. You need to boil the potatoes, but you could try parboiling them and then putting them in the oven if you want roast potatoes, or cutting them for chips.
50 Culinary Hacks
50 culinary hacks to make you look like a pro in the kitchen.
Irons, dental floss and thumbtacks aren’t usually high on the list of a chef’s must-have tools.
But these household items could soon become kitchen lifesavers for home cooks.
From cooking bacon with an iron to cutting cheese with dental floss, and boiling an egg with a thumbtack, these and 47 other chef hacks have been released in an infographic by kitchen company Kit Stone.
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