The Easiest Way to Get Garlic Smell Off Your Hands Garlic stinks. But, hey, that’s why we love it so much. This pungent allium flavors sauces, intensifies condiments, and adds complexity to marinades, but it has a nasty habit of leaving its fragrance behind, particularly on human hands. Whenever I mince these oily cloves, the robust aroma seemingly clings to my… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Make Fresh Mozzarella (and Burrata) It’s hard to talk about cheese without mentioning balls—big, white, wet balls. Mozzarella isn’t the easiest cheese to make, but it’s the one people often start with. In the world of cheese appreciators, there are those who enjoy your hard classics: cheddar, muenster, a big lacy Swiss. And then you have the gourmands… Read more…

The Easiest Ways to Fix Cat Scratches on Your Furniture Cats are terrifyingly destructive. Aside from their shocking effectiveness as predators, cats are also reliable chaos machines in our houses. It’s not their fault, of course—they’re animals we’ve chosen to allow inside our homes, and no cat will ever understand the inherent value of a really nice sectional in your… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Increase Your Snapchat Score For an app that regularly pushes new options on its users, Snapchat doesn’t explain a lot of its features. One of these is the Snapchat score, mostly referred to as Snapscore. If you want to increase your Snapscore, there are some tried and true ways to do so, but be warned: Only the company knows exactly what goes… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Make Your Salsa Better Than Everyone Else’s Straight talk: You need to ferment your salsa. I could explain, over a lot of words, how it intensifies the tomatoes, and how the fermented peppers add a depth of umami that balances the salt and acid, and how it transforms all of the individual components of salsa into a unified flavor bomb that you just want to eat… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Make Pigs in a Blanket Pigs in a blanket seem like easy comfort food because the recipe only requires two ingredients, but no one tells you that you’ll be cutting and rolling sticky strips of dough around wet, slippery dogs for 45 minutes. Forget all that nonsense: There’s an easier way to make pigs in a blanket, and it uses the crescent… Read more…

These Are the Easiest Fixes for the Worst Landlord Repairs A “landlord special,” as it’s come to be known, is a repair done in the fastest and cheapest way possible in order to ready a unit for the next tenant. While shortcuts can be great in some cases, having a slap-dash job done on something you’ll have to look at and live with long-term can be annoying. This type of… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Get Rid of ‘Ghost’ Message Notifications on Your iPhone If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want hundreds (or thousands) of unread texts on your iPhone, there are a few easy ways to mark them all read. But what does one do when you have “ghost” unread messages, as Reddit user RamyKhashroom did? They deleted all messages, updated their iPhone—virtually everything one… Read more…

The Easiest, Laziest Way to Build a Fire If you didn’t grow up camping, you may be surprised to find out that starting a campfire isn’t as easy as it looks in the cartoons. (My daughter recently tried rubbing two sticks together, earnestly believing this would start a fire. Spoiler: It doesn’t work like that). But if you’re hoping to quickly get a fire going… Read more…

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The Easiest Way to Guess How Much Weight a Floating Shelf Can Hold Floating shelves are a relatively simple and inexpensive way to add more storage or display space to a room, corridor, or hallway. But before loading yours up with books, glass storage containers, or potted plants, it’s a good idea to determine roughly how much weight each of your shelves can actually hold. It’s often… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Prevent a Soggy Sandwich The only thing sadder than opening your lunchbox to find a soggy sandwich is opening your kid’s lunchbox at the end of the day to find a completely untouched one. Thankfully, you can prevent soggy, disappointing lunchbox sandwiches: Make them with frozen bread. Read more…

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The Easiest Ways to Open a Can Without a Can Opener One basic rule of life is that everything is easy with the proper tools, and nearly impossible without them. A great example of how this works is the can opener: Although we’ve had the pull-tab design since 1962, you can still somehow find plenty of canned goods on the grocery shelves that lack this simple… Read more…

The Easiest Ways to Keep Your Garage Cool During the Summer Between the heat and humidity, garages without air conditioning can feel like saunas in the summer. In fact, the temperature inside can be 10-18° F higher than outside. Fortunately, there are ways to keep your garage cool during hot weather. Here’s what to know. Read more…

The Easiest Ways to Create the Ultimate Summer Bonfire Bonfires are a summer and early fall tradition. You might think they’re easy to throw together in a few minutes, but they can be tricky—and potentially dangerous. According to the Forest Service, out-of control campfires are the second leading cause of wildfires in the National Forest. And making a bit more effort… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Keep Waffles From Sticking to Your Waffle Iron Weekends and waffles belong together and nothing should ever come between them, especially not the damn waffle maker. When greased up correctly, removing waffles from the hot iron is no problem. Lubricate the waffle iron unevenly, or not at all (we’ve all been there), and the batter can become unapologetically stuck… Read more…

Top 10 Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words, July 1-7 Another example of how an excellent vocabulary is the currency of this realm.

LPT Simple but easily overlooked – the easiest way to cool down in high heat is to dunk your shirt in water and then wear it. Far more effective than cold washcloth, wet hat, drinking ice water, cold shower or other methods. You will go from the brink of heat exhaustion to chilly in only a moment. Its actually insane how effective this is. I am aware that for some people this is probably really obvious, and thats okay. There’s been plenty of people I have talked to ju…

LPT Request: People who attend timeshare presentations, what’s the easiest way to get them off your back? submitted by /u/schaudhery