Misc Notes¶

Cooking Dried Beans¶

Cook’s Illustrated

Soaking dried beans in salted water softens their skins, which helps them cook more evenly and reduces the number of beans that rupture.

For 1 pound of dried beans, dissolve 3 tablespoons of table salt in 4 quarts of cold water. Soak the beans at room temperature for 8 to 24 hours. Drain and rinse them well before cooking until tender.

WhirleyPop™ Popcorn Popper - Instructions¶

• ½c popcorn
• 1-3 TBS oil
• 1tsp flavacol
• Medium heat, no preheating

French toast¶

• 3 eggs
• 2 TBS sugar
• 1 cup milk
• Vanilla
• Cinnamon

Oven breakfast sausage¶

• 400f 12-15 minutes
• Broil to brown

Stovetop pork chops¶

• sear 2-3 min
• flip and xfer to 400F oven 5-10 min
• pull around 140F internal

Hard-boiled eggs¶

Steam for 13 minutes (7 for soft-cooked)