Don't forget we've done 24 other hack episodes to date! Grab the popcorn, have a Barrathon and check them out here th-cam.com/video/jdKv_PUEL90/w-d-xo.html if you've seen any hacks we've not done before, keep them coming and we'll add them to the list :)
flavoured pancakes ... instead of using milk, add a cup of hot chocolate or coffee to the pancake mix. you could even try it with lemon tea. I'm not sue if you would call it a hack. but it makes a change from normal pancakes.
@@Firsona - Barry's so lucky to be married to such a beautiful (and I mean that in every sense) person. Some of the things he does are batshit crazy, and she hasn't killed him brutally yet (although the addition of a breezeblock to the kitchen, from the garden came close).😆😆😆
The chocolate on top of the muffin didn't seize, it bloomed. That's when chocolate is exposed to extreme temperatures. Melt, freeze etc. The fats in the chocolate rise to the surface and then chill there.
I'm from a city which is famous for coffee and I learned from my mother (and also grandmother) as soon as I started drinking coffee that you should always use a little salt while brewing the coffee because it enhances the flavour. I always thought that this was common knowledge :D
My mother taught me to make coffee years ago in a percolator and said that you always put some salt in with the grounds before you perk. Never told me why just said it made for better coffee.
When we would vacation with my aunt, and she would make drip coffee for everyone, she would always add a half tea spoon of salt to it, this was in the mid 90s. So I knew that hack would work :D
I love this series with you two, it's always fun. :) Could you do an episode with "d'oh!" hacks, i.e. hacks built into a product that you figured out way too late? Or that you wished you had seen because they were too easy? I recently learned that the dimples in the cross between 4 ice cubes in the tray are filling aids that help you fill 4 cubes with one go.
The poached egg add a little like a tablespoon of vinegar and the water then swirl the water add the egg. You added too much vinegar. Watch Alton Brown poached eggs
Oh my goodness!!! Thank you for the coffee hack! My partner is always buying super strong beans So I tried with a few grains of salt and voila it’s not as bitter 🥰 One for you, you may know it already Put the rind of parmesan in the meat sauce whilst cooking, depth of flavour is amazing. Don’t forget to fish it out or someone will get a surprise in the lasagne!
2:27 hey Barry you can wrap your ear of corn in a damp paper towel and microwave for a couple minutes (or more depending on how well you want it) and bingo bango....cooked corn 🌽🌽🌽🌽
For the molten cake hack I don't think you should push it down, they cake should bake up around it. At least when I regular bake cupcakes with surprises inside (ganache, cookie dough) I just drop it on top of three batter.
Re: the salt in coffee hack. Alton Brown covered this in one of his Good Eats episodes, the science behind it (roughly) is that the receptors on our tongue that recognize bitter also recognize salt and they tend to receive the signal of salt first. So you add a tiny pinch of salt and it's enough for the receptors to overlook the bitter without turning your coffee salty. I've never done it for instant, but anytime I brew coffee grounds I always add a pinch of salt to help curb the bitter =)
If you’re looking for another hack to try, similar to the salt in coffee to get rid of bitterness, a pinch of baking soda takes some of the bitterness away by neutralizing the tannins in tea. It’s great for making sweet tea in the summertime.
I must try that salt in the coffee trick - it sounds good. The melted chocolate calligraphy was fun too. The rest was hilarious!! Brilliant work both - you make a great team!
I absolutely love the videos with you AND Mrs. "Barry". I love the way you two bounce off of each other. I like seeing what appears to be a healthy relationship! ;-)
Don’t know if you get it in the UK, but I’ve found peanut butter POWDER takes away the bitterness in coffee. I was experimenting trying to add a different flavor to my one cup-a-day. It didn’t flavor it but definitely smoothed it out. Better for you than salt.
Re: Coffee. Put the salt in the grounds in your coffee machine instead of the poured cup. Molton mug cake. Don’t push it down as far. Cheers from Canader eh!
Have always known salt mellows out your coffee. Add a pinch if you brew you coffee or my mom would add clean eggs shells to her coffee grounds before brewing.
The vinegar holds the whites together, I always use vinegar and drop cold eggs into the water as it comes too the boil. 4 mins perfect eggs every time 😁
The egg one I put in about a tablespoon of vinegar into slow boiling water then add the eggs slowly then wait 3 minutes. The poached eggs turn out perfectly. Corn I throw into microwave husks on for 5 to 8 min. Then cut the corn off with a knife or just eat as is. Quick and easy. Great video once again.
I think the problem with the molten cake is there was too much cream so when heated it absorbed into the cake and didn't flow out like a normal lava cake.
My dad told me that when he was little, (this was the 1950s) he was at a friends house and was given a "strange drink". It was milk with salt in it. Surprisingly, it tasted nice! According to his friends mum, it was "a good drink for growing children" (probably because its milk?!). I don't think I would like it though...
I feel like you'd use far less salt than you'd use of sugar (unless you're *also* adding sugar in there.) I personally use baking soda to cut the bitterness.
Also, using the whisk is NOT a hack because hacks make life easier and even if it gets the flour in the bowl, you still have to measure and for us poor people, we don't have scales, we have measuring cups
HI BARRY & BECKY DEBBIE HERE FROM S WALES To successfully poach an egg with a nice firm white (albumen), the eggs needs to be as fresh as possible, because the older the egg the more loose and watery the white will be because it gets watery with age. So successful poached eggs can be done with an egg on the day it has been laid preferably. 1 Get a small jug/mug line it with cling film. 2 Crack the egg into the film and gather up the film and tie it at the top with the egg inside. 3. Place into the boiling water for 3 to 6 minutes then remove from the water. 4 cut open and slide the poached egg out on to your plate/toast 5 Enjoy!!
"So you just gotta wing it? Yea, so if it goes wrong that's why." Oh no. Oh no, that is very often NOT why it goes wrong. A ton of those hacks are fake, that's why they don't work. Also, they are sometimes just straight up dangerous. Ann Reardon talk about those quite a bit, and really good. 100% reccomend watching her debunking that stuff.
As usual, 90% success when Becky picks the hacks! Solution for the lava mug cake is in what you said at the beginning: the hack videos never give you proper measurements. You're looking to make a ganache; 1:1 cream to chocolate (by volume) is probably the right way to go, but if that's too thin still, you can try 1:2 for a thicker ganache.
Instead of cold water, squeeze the melted chocolate into a bowl of chilled vodka. Honestly. Liquid- cold- not water. Also, maybe instead of snipping off the bit, use a skewer to poke a smaller hole?
I just made a poached egg this way... Stonkin'. 100000% only how I will do this from now on since I struggle with the whirlpool and keeping the egg's nice shape. This way was soooo much easier
So I need advice: My mum is deathly afraid of sharp knives in the kitchen, she uses knives blunt as cafe table knives (even using the table knives sometimes) and won't let me sharpen the kitchen knives, I've even had near misses before trying to slice things and when the food gave way sliced the skin on the tip of my finger enough to be painful but not bleed, I literally use a folding pocket knife to prepare food now much to my mum's dismay and I fear she'll end up hurting herself if she keeps insisting on using blunt knives for everything, she used a serrated bread knife to carve up the Sunday roast for Pete's sake. Anyways,do you have any advice I can use to persuade her to stop this insanity?
Why do British people have to boil everything. Egg, boil it! Chicken, boild it! Dont you guys know that stuff tastes better when its fried in a pan? Whats next, boiled cake?
I want a GIF of Mrs. B saying, "sometimes people lie" she sounded so sad lol Supposedly, salt blocks bitter receptors on the tongue. A pinch of salt is often part of hot chocolate recipes.
How much salt would you say Mrs. B added to the coffee ☕? I want to give that a go but knowing me would probably add way to much 🧂. It didn't look to be but a pinch, maybe?
That salt in the coffee has been around for MANY years. LOL About 40 years ago I worked in a restaurant where we put salt in the filter with the coffee in the coffee machine and the whole pot was good. All of our customers loved the coffee.
I thought everyone knew to add a tblspn of vinegar to your poached egg. I always add a little vinegar to my poached eggs always. The acid does something with the egg white. Something sciency
Poaching eggs: you add a small amount of vinegar to the water in the pan, as it comes to a boil, then you stir the water, and crack your eggs into the centre of the vortex. This forms the raw egg into a spherical shape, and the acidity of the vinegar stops the white from breaking up. Adding raw egg to vinegar basically destroys the white.
My mum used to poach eggs in vinegar water. I never could stand them. The best hack I've seen explained that some parts of the egg white are thinner than the rest. It's the difference in density that causes shaggy poached eggs. So you put the eggs into a sieve to get rid of the thin watery stuff, then slide the remaining yolk and white gently into the boiling water. Works like a charm and no horrid vinegar taste. Seeing as how I'm allergic to most vinegars, not dying over a poached egg is just a bonus.
Microwave corn on the cob in the microwave for 4-5 minutes on high in the husk with the silks and all! When done pull out and snap the end off and push the corn out like a push pop! Easy peasy! Easiest corn ever! And easiest hack! Use an angle food pan for the corn to strip it. Put corn on center and strip down and the corn catches in the cake pan! Less mess!
Easy hack for cooking corn on the cob. Leave the husk on and stick it in the microwave for 3-3.5 min. The husk and silk come off really easily and the corn is cooked nicely.
I put salt in my coffee grounds every time for brewing. I've done it for so long I don't know if it does anything. Today I'll make two cups and check it out.
Don't forget we've done 24 other hack episodes to date! Grab the popcorn, have a Barrathon and check them out here th-cam.com/video/jdKv_PUEL90/w-d-xo.html if you've seen any hacks we've not done before, keep them coming and we'll add them to the list :)
Giant pork and pickle pie please
flavoured pancakes ... instead of using milk, add a cup of hot chocolate or coffee to the pancake mix. you could even try it with lemon tea. I'm not sue if you would call it a hack. but it makes a change from normal pancakes.
Hehe I've done quite a few times, the hack computation video is perfect to fall a sleep to.
i know it is pretty randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to watch new series online ?
@Maximilian Rudy I watch on flixzone. Just google for it =)
Mrs Barry: “Sometimes people lie” 😢
Said in the saddest voice ever.
@@brianartillery I know! It felt like explaining to a kid that not everything people say is true...
@@Firsona - Barry's so lucky to be married to such a beautiful (and I mean that in every sense) person. Some of the things he does are batshit crazy, and she hasn't killed him brutally yet (although the addition of a breezeblock to the kitchen, from the garden came close).😆😆😆
Mrs. B used to be so shy. Awesome to see her play more part in videos, she's hilarious! Good work guys!
I always read “Hello” in Ashens voice already. This was just perfect!
What’s the story behind him saying biyaa for the word seal?
@@98ijaz I recommend listening to the song "Kiss From A Rose" by the artist Seal.
Ahhhhhh I was just about to comment, it freaked me out!!!
The "Hello" in Ashen's voice went through my head at the exact time the clip played and I had to rewind just to check I actually heard it xD
love the ashens "hello" lol
Good old Ashens. I haven't watched his videos for a couple years I might have to lol
i first wasn't sure and had to rewind :D
@@flynna He streams on twitch now too, always a laugh.
@@enigma776 what sort of content?
@@flynna scantily clad, I hope!
I always sing "bayaaa" whenever someone says "seal" in a Barry's video. Who's with me?
Same here 😂
Yep
ahaha same
Yep, right there with you xD
I sing it every time someone says seal irl. Not just Barry’s videos.
In the original good eats series I think there was an episode where alton brown explained that salt blocks the bitter receptors on your tongue.
I heard you sneak that Ashens greet in there =D
The chocolate on top of the muffin didn't seize, it bloomed. That's when chocolate is exposed to extreme temperatures. Melt, freeze etc. The fats in the chocolate rise to the surface and then chill there.
Salt in the coffee has been my mom's hack for years. She hates bitter food. It works a dream.
I love salt in the coffee. Makes it taste better. Bring a fuller flavor.
Your mom should just buy the caffeine and put it in a glass of wine or something, if she hates bitter food 🌈
My Dad put it in his beer to take some bitterness out of that too.
@@robertschnobert9090 She drinks decaf! Sadly, salt cannot take the bitter out of people.
Wow gotta try this!
I'm from a city which is famous for coffee and I learned from my mother (and also grandmother) as soon as I started drinking coffee that you should always use a little salt while brewing the coffee because it enhances the flavour. I always thought that this was common knowledge :D
Did we ever find out what was going on between Barry, salt bae, and seal? He said he couldn't say anything for year. Has it been a year?
a year will be december
My dad alway put a pinch of salt in the coffee percolator 30+ years ago, brings out the full flavour of said coffee
same. my dad would do the same thing
Add msg yum
The look on Mrs. Barrys face when the poached egg didnt't work is literally mine, when I screw up something.
My mother taught me to make coffee years ago in a percolator and said that you always put some salt in with the grounds before you perk. Never told me why just said it made for better coffee.
Is it just me or do they just honestly seem like the nicest couple you could ever meet? They seem so incredibly nice!
LOL the salt is such an old one, my great grandparents already did that about 100 years ago!
I just love watching the two of you together!🙏❤️🥂such fun 😊thank you for all the hard work and great videos !!!!!
13:10 bayayaaah
14:05 A wild Ashens is somewhere in your kitchen Barry, watch out!
What’s the story behind baya?
@@98ijaz The singer "Seal" has a well known song called kissed by a rose, it starts with him making a sound like "bayayaaah"
Google it!
When we would vacation with my aunt, and she would make drip coffee for everyone, she would always add a half tea spoon of salt to it, this was in the mid 90s. So I knew that hack would work :D
11:35 - “Barry’s gOne noW. 🙂”
You’re a wise man. Don’t give your wife decaf.
The salt trick also works great on grapefruit!
I must give that a try.. I really love the smell but I can't stand the taste..
@@w.vangaal1077 It'll be less bitter cause the salt molecules block the bitter receptors on your tongue.
Use a bundt pan for the corn, it will hold the corn and it will catch the kernels!
I love this series with you two, it's always fun. :)
Could you do an episode with "d'oh!" hacks, i.e. hacks built into a product that you figured out way too late? Or that you wished you had seen because they were too easy? I recently learned that the dimples in the cross between 4 ice cubes in the tray are filling aids that help you fill 4 cubes with one go.
The poached egg add a little like a tablespoon of vinegar and the water then swirl the water add the egg. You added too much vinegar. Watch Alton Brown poached eggs
Oh my goodness!!! Thank you for the coffee hack! My partner is always buying super strong beans
So I tried with a few grains of salt and voila it’s not as bitter 🥰
One for you, you may know it already
Put the rind of parmesan in the meat sauce whilst cooking, depth of flavour is amazing. Don’t forget to fish it out or someone will get a surprise in the lasagne!
2:27 hey Barry you can wrap your ear of corn in a damp paper towel and microwave for a couple minutes (or more depending on how well you want it) and bingo bango....cooked corn 🌽🌽🌽🌽
Salt in the coffee is an old hack. I love kitchen hacks when when Mrs B is there. Hacks that don't work are the best.
For the molten cake hack I don't think you should push it down, they cake should bake up around it. At least when I regular bake cupcakes with surprises inside (ganache, cookie dough) I just drop it on top of three batter.
Up, up you go!
and/or place a thin bit of wafer underneath the cube.
"Tins of sweet corn are available from most super markets"
Re: the salt in coffee hack. Alton Brown covered this in one of his Good Eats episodes, the science behind it (roughly) is that the receptors on our tongue that recognize bitter also recognize salt and they tend to receive the signal of salt first. So you add a tiny pinch of salt and it's enough for the receptors to overlook the bitter without turning your coffee salty.
I've never done it for instant, but anytime I brew coffee grounds I always add a pinch of salt to help curb the bitter =)
You should bring back saying "bayayaaa". I miss it. It's not the same when we say it in our head
If you’re looking for another hack to try, similar to the salt in coffee to get rid of bitterness, a pinch of baking soda takes some of the bitterness away by neutralizing the tannins in tea. It’s great for making sweet tea in the summertime.
6:35 aww ain't that the truth Mrs. Barry!!
Love these videos keep up the great work u guys! Hope ur family is having a great Spring! 🌻🌸
Just in time for my break at work! Cheers bazza!
I must try that salt in the coffee trick - it sounds good. The melted chocolate calligraphy was fun too. The rest was hilarious!! Brilliant work both - you make a great team!
The salt thing is something i learned from a navy man. Long time military/truck stop secret.
You could make Medusa cupcakes with the "mop top" seized chocolate 😅
I recall a naval recipe for a pinch of salt in coffee, always thought it would just make it, salty. I wonder what the chemistry is behind this.
I absolutely love the videos with you AND Mrs. "Barry". I love the way you two bounce off of each other. I like seeing what appears to be a healthy relationship! ;-)
1st, time 😁, your,show, good job 👍👏👏, from parmar family from Charlotte NC, USA.🍻
Don’t know if you get it in the UK, but I’ve found peanut butter POWDER takes away the bitterness in coffee. I was experimenting trying to add a different flavor to my one cup-a-day. It didn’t flavor it but definitely smoothed it out. Better for you than salt.
I had to listen 3 times but at 14:04 that is Stuarts voice, right? :) Nice little easter egg Barry!
Mrs. B ist adorable!!! 🥰
Re: Coffee. Put the salt in the grounds in your coffee machine instead of the poured cup. Molton mug cake. Don’t push it down as far. Cheers from Canader eh!
Have always known salt mellows out your coffee. Add a pinch if you brew you coffee or my mom would add clean eggs shells to her coffee grounds before brewing.
oh gawd. the big sad eyes. "It wasnt supposed too." so sad. :( lol
Next time for the chocolate nest decoration use tempered chocolate a freezer cold vodka. It'll work way better.
How to make Coffee less bitter?
Step 1: Brew it right
Step 2: Don't let it sit on a Heating plate all day
14:05 cracks me up. All I could think of was Ashens and then you play it anyway 🤣🤣
The vinegar holds the whites together, I always use vinegar and drop cold eggs into the water as it comes too the boil. 4 mins perfect eggs every time 😁
Salt makes you taste bitter less. MSG does the same. Adding small amounts of salt to anything will make it taste sweeter.
Well, I think the chocolate one can be named in three ways; chocalligraphy, "I had a accident!!!", and tapeworms....... :P
Tapeworms, lol.
I'm surprised you didn't tell any CORNY jokes.....
Looks like you put too much cream with the chocolate for the last hack and thats why ut didn't set properly
I’m loving the videos with the both of you in it, you both bounce off each other perfectly ❤️
The egg one I put in about a tablespoon of vinegar into slow boiling water then add the eggs slowly then wait 3 minutes. The poached eggs turn out perfectly. Corn I throw into microwave husks on for 5 to 8 min. Then cut the corn off with a knife or just eat as is. Quick and easy. Great video once again.
When Barry comes out with the cupcake, I died xD
The salt in the coffee hack also works for bitter hot chocolate!
Perfer timing i just turned on personalized notifications.
What's personalised ones? Not heard of that! Sounds good though
@@mrbarrylewis whoops i ment all. Not the personalized one. I Got up way to early.
@@mrbarrylewis personalized is the default setting when you subscribe. I usually forget to switch that to all notifications.
@@mrbarrylewis hi Barry! 🌈
I love the sound of the kitchen starter kit especially being a student, don’t have all the right stuff sometimes so a kit would be brill 👍🏼
Salt and sugar is perfect for fixing anything! If you make something too salty, just add some sugar and it equals it out.
alton brown has said the salt in the coffee thing for years. i kno u like alton, have u ever watched his quarentine quitchen? (its not g rated)
As someone who absolutely hates the bitterness of coffee, I'm going to try a mug with some salt in it to see what it's like.
I think the problem with the molten cake is there was too much cream so when heated it absorbed into the cake and didn't flow out like a normal lava cake.
I was so disappointed it didn’t say “help” 🤣🤣 great hacks!
My dad told me that when he was little, (this was the 1950s) he was at a friends house and was given a "strange drink". It was milk with salt in it. Surprisingly, it tasted nice! According to his friends mum, it was "a good drink for growing children" (probably because its milk?!). I don't think I would like it though...
You ever tried using the cling film method for poached eggs? Works a treat!
I love watching you two together! You guys are so much fun and seem to have such great chemistry! 💚
Add somebody who has poached eggs for breakfast a couple times a week done in a pot of water that’s been stirred this hack offends me greatly xD
HYEBIASW you .......
Also I finished my coffee just before the "making coffee less bitter" hack. Damn
I feel like you'd use far less salt than you'd use of sugar (unless you're *also* adding sugar in there.) I personally use baking soda to cut the bitterness.
6:38 is Mrs B having a “Doughnut in Grannies Greenhouse” (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band Reference)
Also, using the whisk is NOT a hack because hacks make life easier and even if it gets the flour in the bowl, you still have to measure and for us poor people, we don't have scales, we have measuring cups
HI BARRY & BECKY
DEBBIE HERE FROM S WALES
To successfully poach an egg with a nice firm white (albumen), the eggs needs to be as fresh as possible, because the older the egg the more loose and watery the white will be because it gets watery with age. So successful poached eggs can be done with an egg on the day it has been laid preferably.
1 Get a small jug/mug line it with cling film.
2 Crack the egg into the film and gather up the film and tie it at the top with the egg inside.
3. Place into the boiling water for 3 to 6 minutes then remove from the water.
4 cut open and slide the poached egg out on to your plate/toast
5 Enjoy!!
Poached eggs done incorrectly... Vinegar AND! water, bring to boil, stir and drop egg in vortex!
"So you just gotta wing it?
Yea, so if it goes wrong that's why."
Oh no. Oh no, that is very often NOT why it goes wrong. A ton of those hacks are fake, that's why they don't work.
Also, they are sometimes just straight up dangerous. Ann Reardon talk about those quite a bit, and really good. 100% reccomend watching her debunking that stuff.
As usual, 90% success when Becky picks the hacks! Solution for the lava mug cake is in what you said at the beginning: the hack videos never give you proper measurements. You're looking to make a ganache; 1:1 cream to chocolate (by volume) is probably the right way to go, but if that's too thin still, you can try 1:2 for a thicker ganache.
13:10 we all did Barry
Cheeky Ashens cameo 14:05
Ya know what gets corn off the cob REALLY quick? A knife...know what's even faster? Your own mouth...LOL
Instead of cold water, squeeze the melted chocolate into a bowl of chilled vodka. Honestly. Liquid- cold- not water. Also, maybe instead of snipping off the bit, use a skewer to poke a smaller hole?
I just made a poached egg this way... Stonkin'. 100000% only how I will do this from now on since I struggle with the whirlpool and keeping the egg's nice shape. This way was soooo much easier
I Love your Kitchen and Mrs B working with you!
Loads of laughs 😄 and I think the hacks are Fantastic 👍
JO JO IN VT 💕😄
I found my second Minecraft creator reference.... 6:00 (the music is the music grian is going to use for his hcbbs)
So I need advice:
My mum is deathly afraid of sharp knives in the kitchen, she uses knives blunt as cafe table knives (even using the table knives sometimes) and won't let me sharpen the kitchen knives, I've even had near misses before trying to slice things and when the food gave way sliced the skin on the tip of my finger enough to be painful but not bleed, I literally use a folding pocket knife to prepare food now much to my mum's dismay and I fear she'll end up hurting herself if she keeps insisting on using blunt knives for everything, she used a serrated bread knife to carve up the Sunday roast for Pete's sake.
Anyways,do you have any advice I can use to persuade her to stop this insanity?
Why do British people have to boil everything. Egg, boil it! Chicken, boild it! Dont you guys know that stuff tastes better when its fried in a pan? Whats next, boiled cake?
The majority of those gadgets is preety decent to say at least :D
thats awesome, love the chocolate worms on the muffin!!! :D :D :D .. Mrs B, the hacks are great, shows us what NOT to try!!!
I want a GIF of Mrs. B saying, "sometimes people lie" she sounded so sad lol
Supposedly, salt blocks bitter receptors on the tongue. A pinch of salt is often part of hot chocolate recipes.
I always add a pinch of salt to my coffee. It really makes a lot of difference
How much salt would you say Mrs. B added to the coffee ☕? I want to give that a go but knowing me would probably add way to much 🧂. It didn't look to be but a pinch, maybe?
That salt in the coffee has been around for MANY years. LOL About 40 years ago I worked in a restaurant where we put salt in the filter with the coffee in the coffee machine and the whole pot was good. All of our customers loved the coffee.
I thought everyone knew to add a tblspn of vinegar to your poached egg. I always add a little vinegar to my poached eggs always. The acid does something with the egg white. Something sciency
Poaching eggs: you add a small amount of vinegar to the water in the pan, as it comes to a boil, then you stir the water, and crack your eggs into the centre of the vortex. This forms the raw egg into a spherical shape, and the acidity of the vinegar stops the white from breaking up. Adding raw egg to vinegar basically destroys the white.
My mum used to poach eggs in vinegar water. I never could stand them. The best hack I've seen explained that some parts of the egg white are thinner than the rest. It's the difference in density that causes shaggy poached eggs. So you put the eggs into a sieve to get rid of the thin watery stuff, then slide the remaining yolk and white gently into the boiling water. Works like a charm and no horrid vinegar taste. Seeing as how I'm allergic to most vinegars, not dying over a poached egg is just a bonus.
Microwave corn on the cob in the microwave for 4-5 minutes on high in the husk with the silks and all! When done pull out and snap the end off and push the corn out like a push pop! Easy peasy! Easiest corn ever! And easiest hack!
Use an angle food pan for the corn to strip it. Put corn on center and strip down and the corn catches in the cake pan! Less mess!
Easy hack for cooking corn on the cob. Leave the husk on and stick it in the microwave for 3-3.5 min. The husk and silk come off really easily and the corn is cooked nicely.
I put salt in my coffee grounds every time for brewing. I've done it for so long I don't know if it does anything. Today I'll make two cups and check it out.