Cook Fresh Corn on the Cob in Your Microwave

Summer may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t eat corn on the cob. In fact, it’s a great way to add a little summery flair to your next meal and make it feel more like a picnic. You can even enjoy fresh corn on the cob at work by covering the corn with wet paper towels and cooking in your microwave.

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Author: David Galloway

How to Keep a Whole Turkey Submerged in a Sous-Vide Bath

A specter is haunting Thanksgiving—the specter of dry turkey. One of the easiest ways to prevent this horror is to cook the big-ass bird sous-vide but, thanks to a large hole where its insides used to be, keeping a whole turkey submerged is usually quite the challenge. To overcome the buoyancy, you could chop the…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

Let Your Kid Paint With These Homemade Paint Popsicles

When my son was a preschooler, I was forever looking for new artsy activities to do with him. I especially loved activities where the set-up was part of the activity itself—you get more mileage out of those. We’d make homemade play dough together or mix together corn starch, water and food coloring to make sidewalk…

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker