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2) Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

3) Chop up some Snicker bars in the food processor, peel, core and slice some apples. Place in a baking dish, sprinkle the chopper  candy bars over the top, bake at 350 for 15 minutes! You'll love this, try it with vanilla ice cream.

4) Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking

5) Peel a banana from the bottom and you wont have to pick off the stringy things, plus that's how the primates do it.

6) Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store, If you leave them connected at the stem they rippin faster.

7) Store chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and wont mold.

8) When you buy a container of cake frosting at the store , whip it up with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. Frost more cakes / cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

9) Before you pour sticky substance into a meacuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out hot water, but dont dry. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

10) Store eggs with the large side up to kep the olks centered.

11) Fresh eggs are rough and chalky. They will sink and stay horizontal on the bottom of the glass of water. (The egg white is still vscous and close around the plump yolk).

12) Old eggs are smooth and shiny. They will float in a glass of water. The egg-white is watery and the yolk is flat in a egg roughly 3 weeks old.

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