Innovative solutions to everyday cooking challenges from our team of test kitchen MacGyvers—the test cooks at Cook’s Illustrated magazine A kitchen hack is an unusual, easier, and/or better way of performing a task that often saves money and time or improves the quality of the outcome. In this wacky but eminently useful collection of kitchen hacks, you will learn how to outsmart tricky tasks and face down kitchen challenges (big and small) with innovative and clever ideas from Quick Tips, the most popular feature in Cook’s Illustrated magazine (900,000 circulation). Kitchen Hacks is a beautifully designed guidebook to hacking your kitchen . . . and beyond!

Discover tips and tricks to make cooking faster, easier and more fun, along with more than 70 recipes. The book is divided into two sections: Ingredient Hacks and Appliance and Pan Hacks. The first section shows how to use common ingredients in new ways. The second section shows how to use pans and appliances in ways you've never thought of.

Innovative solutions to everyday cooking challenges—from maximizing minimal counter space to preparing delicious meals without special appliances—from the Cook’s Illustrated team of test kitchen MacGyvers The test cooks of Cook's Illustrated have hacked their way through the kitchen—and beyond—to find innovative solutions to everyday cooking challenges. A kitchen hack is an unusual, easier, and/or better way of performing a task that often saves money and time or improves the quality of the outcome. Kitchen Hacks features over 1,000 of Cook’s Illustrated’s test kitchen-approved tips and tricks to help you face down kitchen conundrums, such as: • Need extra counter space? Place a baking sheet on top of a pulled-out kitchen drawer. • No rolling pin to be found? Pull out a bottle of wine to flatten your pie dough. • Can’t get that sticky jar open? Fit a rubber band around the lid for a helpful grip. Throughout, you'll find fun and helpful illustrations that guide you every step of the way. Additionally, you’ll find 22 “How Did They Do That?” recipes, which include hacks like how to make the perfect vanilla ice cream without a machine, how to whip up a DIY eggless mayonnaise in no time—and much more. Become a more efficient and inventive cook and take your skills to the next level with our kitchen hacks—and have fun while doing it.

The practical art of making more with less--in the kitchen! Melissa Coleman, the creator of the popular design and lifestyle blog The Faux Martha, shares her refreshingly simple approach to cooking that delivers beautiful and satisfying meals using familiar ingredients and minimal kitchen tools. The Minimalist Kitchen includes 100 wholesome recipes that use Melissa's efficient cooking techniques, and the results are anything but ordinary. You'll find Biscuits with Bourbon-Blueberry Quick Jam, Pesto Garden Pasta with an easy homemade pesto, Humble Chuck Roast that's simple to prepare and so versatile, Roasted Autumn Sweet Potato Salad, Stovetop Mac and Cheese, and Two-Bowl Carrot Cupcakes. While The Minimalist Kitchen helps tackle one of the home's biggest problem areas Ñthe kitchenÑthis book goes beyond the basics of clearing out and cleaning up, it also gives readers practical tips to maintain this simplified way of life. Melissa shows you how to shop, stock your pantry, meal plan without losing your mind, and most importantly, that delicious food doesnÕt take tons of ingredients or gadgets to prepare. This streamlined way of cooking is a breath of fresh air in modern lives where clutter and distraction can so easily take over.

Presents recipes ranging in difficulty with the science and technology-minded cook in mind, providing the science behind cooking, the physiology of taste, and the techniques of molecular gastronomy.

**NOTE: ALL FOUR 'ULTIMATE KITCHEN HACKS' VOLUMES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN A SINGLE COLLECTION!** Are you sick of wasting time in your kitchen? BECOME A KITCHEN SUPERSTAR WITH THIS COLLECTION OF GENIUS COOKING TIPS, FOOD HACKS AND KITCHEN SHORTCUTS! Save yourself time, money and heartbreak and make your life soooo much easier in the kitchen with this collection of simple yet essential cooking hacks. You will LOVE these 45 shortcuts on everything from hands-free garlic peeling to no-more-tears onion-chopping to keeping your salad fresher for longer! Click the buy button to fall back in love with cooking and with your kitchen! *** Would you like to learn how cook al-dente pasta in one minute, stop nuts and berries sinking in your cakes, get your clams to clean themselves or create chocolate bowls with your breath in just seconds? Then this is the book you have been waiting for – more than forty shortcuts to make cooking super-fast and easy! Ultimate Kitchen Hacks – Volume 1 will show you 45 cooking shortcuts you can use immediately – you’ll wish you’d known them years ago! In this book YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW TO: Scoop up stray eggshells from your bowl in a jiffy Cook al-dente pasta super-fast Keep your sugar fresh forever Make whipped cream without beaters Open a tight jar lid with no effort Warm bread dough without an oven Make chocolate bowls with your breath Defrost meat quicker than you can believe Keep salt from hardening … and 36 other invaluable kitchen hacks! Click the buy button to fall back in love with cooking and with your kitchen!

**NOTE: ALL FOUR 'ULTIMATE KITCHEN HACKS' VOLUMES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN A SINGLE COLLECTION!** Are you sick of wasting time in your kitchen? BECOME A KITCHEN SUPERSTAR WITH THIS COLLECTION OF GENIUS COOKING TIPS, FOOD HACKS AND KITCHEN SHORTCUTS! Save yourself time, money and heartbreak and make your life soooo much easier in the kitchen with this collection of simple yet essential cooking hacks. You will LOVE these 45 shortcuts on everything from peeling an egg with just water to icing cupcakes in an instant to keeping your fresh ginger fresh forever! Click the buy button to fall back in love with cooking and with your kitchen! *** Would you like to learn how to power-slice Cherry Tomatoes, turn a pot handle into a spoon rest, or try a natural food bug repellent? Then this is the book you have been waiting for – more than forty shortcuts to make cooking super-fast and easy! Ultimate Kitchen Hacks – Volume 4 will show you 44 cooking tips you can use immediately – you’ll wish you’d known them years ago! In this book YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW TO: Ice cupcakes in an instant Peel an egg with just water Keep your fresh ginger fresh forever Natural food bug repellent Turn a pot handle into a spoon rest Power-slice Cherry Tomatoes Rejuvenate limp celery Prevent sugar from clumping De-gunk a microwave with ease … and 35 other invaluable kitchen hacks! Click the buy button to fall back in love with cooking and with your kitchen!