834 Kitchen Quick Tips: Tricks, Techniques, and Shortcuts for the Curious Cook

Presents a series of techniques and tips for solving common kitchen problems in preparing and serving meats, fruits, vegetables, spices, and condiments. "What is a quick tip? For the editors of 'Cook's Illustrated', it's an easier way of performing a kitchen task and it either saves time or money or improves the quality of the outcome. The tip may call for an odd appliance such as a hair dryer (for smoothing chocolate frosting), a surprising ingredient such as miniature marshmallows (placed on the ends of toothpicks to hold plastic wrap above a frosted cake), or a common kitchen tool such as an egg slicer, which can be used to slice mushrooms. These tips are the best picks from thousands of techniques and shortcuts submitted by our readers over the past eleven years." --… (more)