How do you achieve a perfect roast chicken? Butterfly that sucker (spine goes into the stock bag). Salt the skin. Rub garlic herb butter under the skin. I don’t care how Grandma did it, it’s done when my Thermapen SAYS it’s done.
What’s your favorite part of the bird? Thighs. Never send a breast to do what a thigh…

Or you could just not let kids use anything you’ve got a credit card hooked up to. Get ‘em a 2DS and a Mario game. They get a screen that they can’t do harm with, you get more time to use your screen.

Considering the entire “potatoes absorb excess salt in soup” bit has been debunked by anyone who actually ran the experiment, I’m gonna guess at least one more point made here is bull. The lightbulb trick makes sense from a purely physical point of view.

Seriously. Get them a 2DS (like 3DS but without 3D effect that little kids shouldn’t be staring at anyway) and some Mario games (not Mario Kart, that game requires maturity due to how easy it is to drastically lose).

I just about always have homemade chicken stock around, so the sodium bomb flavor packet goes in the trash. I add whatever meat scraps are around, plus soy sauce and ginger. Egg is either poached as the noodles cook in the stock or I’ll mix it in all egg drop soup like. Cool with frozen veggies until it can be eaten…

Know what’s awesome? When you go for the handshake, and they use it to pull you into a hug anyway. Great way to make someone’s boundries feel respected. NOT.

I find that an item with free shipping on Amazon always ends up being cheaper than ThinkGeek’s version of that item ON SALE (once you factor in shipping).

Kinda like how everyone being armed doesn’t stop gun violence either.

This cocktail was never intended to be painless. It’s a sneaky way to make someone suffer. If they didn’t want to make the prisoner suffer, they’d go for nitrogen gas. The suffocation feeling comes from a buildup of CO2 in the blood, and that doesn’t happen with nitrogen. Someone in a pure nitrogen environment doesn’t…

And this happens the day AFTER I buy a new webcam after assuming I’m not getting a Switch until mid-May at best.

And this happens the day AFTER I buy a new webcam after assuming I’m not getting a Switch until mid-May at best.

Nonstick is fine. Spray with some cooking spray and you don’t need a spatula to flip. Just shove it forward and flip the pan up. Practice with a small tortilla in a cold pan.

Rinsing rice makes it less sticky.

Tap the part of your palm connected to your thumb. That’s raw. Touch thumb to pointer finger, tap same spot. Rare. Middle finger is medium rate. Ring is medium. Pinky is GODDAMMIT ANOTHER WASTED STEAK.

Candy themometer. You need to maintain a certain temperature. Also, don’t dump too much food in at once. Same reason.

Practice.

A Dutch oven can be used ANYWHERE. Stove. Oven. Grill. Fireplace. Campfire. You’ll want a big one with big handles. 7qts unless you’re not really cooking for very many.

That’s not BBQ, that’s grilling.

Stove recipes are easy. PUT THE POT/PAN ON THE GRILL. You might not have a lot of control over the heat. Oven recipes are trickier. If your grill has a themo built in, then use indirect grilling (cook on the side the fire ISN’T, with the lid down). Make sure to use a probe thermo, do NOT rely on cooking times.

Watch Good Eats. Start with earlier seasons. You will see things you WANT to cook (trust me, this totally happens). In time, you will be cooking more nights than not.

Not really. I got a book called The Flavor Bible. It helps when I’m halfassing.