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The way you know when the dough has gone from lumpy mess to living creature is if you stand there watching it quiet enough. You know it’s happening when you stare out the window or check your phone for the timer to go off, or when your bread goes from being an airy loaf to … Read more

The downside to throwing a barbeque party is that there’s typically either too much or too little meat. And fear of buying too little or too much beef is usually due to an error in quantity. To prevent such a mistake, I use this Brisket Weight Calculator. It calculates how many pounds you should buys … Read more

Is it safety or risk? If your leftover pizza sits on the counter, it’s one thing; if it’s in the back of the fridge, that’s another. Should you eat it now, or save it for breakfast tomorrow? On the one hand, you don’t want to waste food. But on the other, you don’t want to … Read more

Fifteen minutes before company comes to your house there’s a certain kind of panic that sets in. It’s when you look into your fridge and find a raw chicken that doesn’t seem big enough for all the people you’ve invited over. You think it should be bigger, but then you don’t know how it could … Read more

Breast pumping for the very first time is an anxious experience. There’s this milk in your hand, warm milk; and there are questions looming like they’re far too heavy for them to be. How long will it last? Where should I put it? Should I freeze it all right away? That’s what feels like the … Read more

There you are, standing in front of the fridge with a half empty bottle of lemon juice and a bag of raw chicken. The recipe on your phone say to marinate. How much sauce should I make? It never gets answered. That’s the issue with many recipes. You either make too little marinade and end … Read more

Whether your cookies turn out to be flat regrets or tender disks has everything to do with structure. And chilling cookie dough. But when you’re impatient (or distracted), you know: You should of chill it. And maybe you figure if the internet says 30 minutes will do, then 30 minutes will do. Now you don’t … Read more

Data can replace guesswork to spare you from being disappointed by not having enough pizza. Based off some fuzzy idea of how much we’ll be full, most of us over- or under-order what our guests will eat. When you plug in information about your crowd and the food you’re serving, the calculator figure out the … Read more

You’re serving brats and one of your guests asks “Are they done?”. Uh oh. Panic time. You thought you were being clever and pulled them out early so the beer glaze could soak in, but they’re all pink in the middle and cold. Why’d that happen? Usually it’s a lack of understanding of how heat … Read more

That’s where my dough ball calculator comes in: The calculator takes all that heavy lifting off you and adjusts based on what kind of mixer you use, how much water/hydration you’re using to make your dough, and whether or not you’ve enriched it. Instead of spitting out a single number, it provides a window. Because … Read more