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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…
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…
All you need to make peanut butter are peanuts and some strong grinding power. Break those peanuts up into small pieces, and a previously hard, crunchy product turns soft and smooth. Pretty amazing isn’t it? But that’s not all. There…
It’s one of the quickest, and cheapest, meals around. All you need is access to hot boiling water. Yes, we’re talking instant noodles. Invented in Japan, but popular all around the world, they’re a life and time saver for millions…
When you make your own fresh orange juice, do you simply blend a peeled orange, or do you squeeze the juice out with a juicer? Both make perfectly fine orange juice, but, they’re definitely not the same. One will be…
Deceptively simple to make, yet, so many ways to make them: brownies. There must be thousands of recipes for making brownies. And most of them will probably make a delicious brownie. But, you might be looking for one that’s a…
The first time I heard of Kouign Amann, an intricate, French pastry was when watching the Great British Bake Off some time ago. In the episode, contestants had to recreate this challenging style of French patisserie, and it wasn’t easy.…
Stroopwafels are probably one of the most well-known Dutch cookies out there. They are famous for their crunchy waffle cookies on the outside and sweet syrup on the inside. Making stroopwafels is a little bit of a project, but a…
Bread making can be as simple as just mixing some ingredients, waiting and baking, to a complex multi-step process. Depending on what style of bread you’re after, you might choose for one over the other. But for a beginning bread…