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5 ways to keep your kitchen cool this summer
No matter how much you love summer, there is one part that can drive even the most heat-loving person bonkers: cooking in a hot kitchen. When outdoor temperatures are high, cooking over a hot stove or firing up the oven can be the last thing you...
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Barista-worthy coffee at home
May I have a vanilla soy latte, no whip with just one pump of vanilla, please? Wait, I’m in my kitchen, still in my pjs. Working from home has perks like staying in those pj bottoms all day, because no one can see them in your video conferences....
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Slow Cookers 101: Guide to Converting Recipes
Slow cooking is adaptable to a wide variety of recipes. Because slow cookers use low cooking temperatures and retain moisture during the cooking process, any recipe that requires cooking something “low and slow” can easily convert to a slow...
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Meal Planning Made Easy: 9 Helpful Appliances
Whether it’s your budget you are trying to get under control, or the ingredients going into your meals, creating a weekly meal plan can help you achieve both. Meal planning can seem intimidating at first, but with a little prep work and the right...
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Cook While You Work (from Home): Six Slow Cooker Recipes
I have always loved the “walk away” convenience of slow cookers. But in this new time of working from home, home-schooling children, teens taking up all the wi-fi, and fighting with my husband for office space, the slow cooker has become my...
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3 Meal Planning Tips when Cooking for One or Two People
While working in the Hamilton Beach test kitchen today, performing test routines on a number of products, it occurred to me that my whole team is currently working from home and cooking for just one or two people. Our group runs the gamut from a...
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Multi-cookers, demystified
In the age of meal kits, grocery delivery apps and subscription-based shopping, it seems like everybody’s out to save a little time and effort where they can when it comes to cooking. Which may be why the multi-cooker has been surging in...
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Pressure cooking 101
Pressure cookers are all the rage now, and they’re not even close to the ones your parents or grandparents used to use. Thanks to digital controls, built-in safety features and their sheer convenience, pressure cookers have been making their way...
