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Do you have excess of something? Here are some recipes to preserve it!

Basics of smoking food

We had some basic understanding of smoking meat based on what we seen back home… Everybody´s grandma used to have smoker at home, and the old people  knew what type of wood, how much smoke it needs and how to do it. All this knowledge is pretty much lost. I wish I would have the possibility to have a meat smoker, but right now our living conditions does not permit this (apartment), I don´t think the neighbours would appreciate me

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EvHappy

How to Cook With Stainless Steel

It´s so simple 😀 Yet so important to know how to use it! My very first time when I used a stainless steel pan was a complete disaster! I had no idea you need to heat it up, I just started as normally would with a non stick pan. I added some oil tho, thinking that it´s not non stick, so the oil will do. But oil alone was not enough… It took me more than 10 additional years to

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EvHappy

The issues with Non Stick Pans (teflon)

Quite a long video about how Teflon, or the non stick coating came to be.  I have to say, I was not aware for a long time how bad this material is. And also had no idea that all the pans that are scratched should not be used any more.  I think it´s a very important knowledge, hence why this video is here. I also switched to stainless steel pans and very happy to use that instead. It took a

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EvHappy

How to break down a chicken

I have a pretty good idea how to do it, but still need to excercise to cut it on the fat lines 😀 This is an awesomely good video explaining how to do it, plus a lot of easy chicken recipes.  And every day you learn something new. I had no idea how to make the “brown stock” (by roasting the bones first!) and never heard of the Remouillage 😀 I don´t think I will consider it, mostly because we

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