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  1. Another cool way to keep ginger long term — at least if it's whole and unpeeled — is stick it in dirt. It will start to grow again. Not a great option if you need it every day, but if you only use it a few times a year, you can have a nice plant and fresh ginger when you need it. (Though you lose the nice plant when you pull the ginger out of the ground.)

  2. As a nutritionist, the salt questions are triggering. You are more prone to chronic illnesses with salt restrictions than not. You are more likely to die if you don't get enough salt in your diet. The recommended 2g per day is killing people all the time. Research shows that 6g per day should be the new minimum.

    What is required for your neurons to fire? Na.
    What do you sweat out? Na.
    What do you pee out? Na.
    What is Na? Sodium.
    Where do you get sodium? NaCl.
    What's NaCl? Salt.

    source: The Salt Fix, and much more.

  3. I think we really need a seperate "What's Eating Dan?" channel or at least Dan only alerts(which I don't think youtube can do).. I do watch other ATK videos at times but I have been cooking long enough that I dont need more recipies(i.e. "how").. but the food science of "why" is still very useful. Food for thought.

  4. You can make crunchy lentils in the microwave. Soak them over night and place them evenly on a large microwave safe ceramic dish. They steam untill the plate gets so hot that they roast up crunchy. Great high fiber snack and great crunchy garnish. Can be flavored with things like soy sauce and hot sauce and microwave them again, too. Just be cearfull to not burn them on that 2nd nuke. Better to stop them a lil early and finish them in a skillet.

  5. For Scrambled eggs only, I've always been told that adding salt early makes them watery, so I only ever add salt at the end when it is almost fully cooked before letting the residual heat finish off the eggs. This results in the best scrambled eggs of all time (for me) and adding salt early makes them pretty awful on comparison. Again, this is only for scrambled, every other egg dish I salt early.

    Confirmation/Myth busting this would be appreciated 🙂

  6. You mentioned Grilling… it’d be nice if you reviewed or touched on outdoor electric grills. In my area it’s illegal to use gas or charcoal (any open flame) grills on apartment or condo balconies. I have a Weber electric that I love, but you can’t do zone grilling.

  7. They always say that white meat should cook to 160 and dark meat should cook to 175 but how do you get 2 different temperatures if you're cooking them at the same time? Does the dark meat normally get hotter because of a higher fat content?

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