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Pressure cookers cook food fast. You can easily cut the cooking time in half, if not more, thanks to the high heat inside the cooker. But, should you use the quick release button? Or let it go naturally? Why can’t…
Making chili from dried beans, hummus from dried chickpeas, or a delicious meat stew. If you have less than an hour, they’re a no go. You need hours. Unless… You happen to own a pressure cooker! A pressure cooker speeds…
For a long time, beetroots were one of the few foods I tried to stay clear of. I’ve never enjoyed eating the pure, basic boiled vegetable. Its earthiness put me off. Until, I found out that, by tweaking just exactly…
It’s not easy to color a brown cake red. But that’s exactly what you try to do when making a red velvet cake. This cake contains a good amount of cocoa powder, which originally contributed to the red-brownish hue. But…
Ever stored some cooked beetroots in your fridge, only to come back a few days later to find dull brown beetroots instead of bright red ones? Or have you tried baking a red cake using beetroot as a colorant? Only…
Wondering why some cookies, such a Melting Moments, just seem to melt in your mouth? They’re delicate and only just hold together before they crumble apart once you bite into them. By simply choosing the right ingredients you can make…
Want to bake a cake, but have a broken oven, or is it full of other bakes? Eyeing that air fryer in the cupboard and wondering whether you could just bake it in there? Isn’t an air fryer kind of…
“Making” milk from a cow is ‘easy’, that is, from an engineer’s perspective. As long as a cow is few, and regularly gives birth to a calve, she’ll do all the hard work. She is the ‘factory’. She adds vitamins,…
Rendering beef fat is quite a fascinating process. You’re transforming seemingly unedible, gooey, octopus-like material into pure liquid fat. At some point, you may well wonder whether that transformation will even happen! But, be patient. If done well, you can…
Ever found back an old bag of peanuts that just didn’t taste or smell good anymore? Maybe with a bit of a musty smell to it? Or maybe you had a similar experience, but with butter? That didn’t just smell weird,…
A cappuccino wouldn’t be the drink it is without a foamy milk layer on top. The same goes for a latte, macchiato and many other fancy ‘coffee shop drinks’. It changes them from a simple cup of coffee into something…
It’s squishy and bouncy. Sweet, but not extremely so and flavored delicately. And, even though it’s jelly-like, it doesn’t contain that typical jelly ingredient: gelatin. Instead, the secret behind the unique texture of a piece of pistachio Turkish delight is…