Bigger bacon, quicker bacon, and bakin' bacon.

Here are 3 things you should know so you can get the most out of your bacon eating experience. 

Get bigger bacon:

• When a strip of bacon is cooked in a frying pan, it shrinks and shrivels up into a tiny bacon.
• To reduce shrinkage, rinse your bacon under cold water before frying.

Want quicker bacon to satisfy those moments when you need it immediately?

• Cook a large batch of bacon using the aforementioned method if you want.
• Freeze the delicious pieces inside plastic sandwich bags individually or in pairs, trios, or whatever your heart desires.
• When your bacon craving arises, grab a bag or two of bacon from your bacon hoard and microwave for a few seconds

Bakin' bacon if you want to cook a lot of tasty bacon:

If you're making a dish that needs a lot of bacon, or is made up of a strong bacon base, use your oven.

1. Preheat your oven to 400 F.
2. Use a large rimmed pan, make sure the sides are high enough so the grease doesn't leak out.
3. Line the pan with foil and evenly space the bacon so they have room to cook.
4. Place on the middle rack of your oven for 6-7 minutes for thin-sliced bacon and or up to 9-11 minutes for thick-sliced.
5. You don't have to flip them, or turn them like some kind of primitive aborigine cooking a wild boar in the middle of the woods.
6. Drain them, serve and enjoy! 

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"Cheapuccino" Make your own blended ice coffee drink.

Frappuccino? Why are you so expensive?!

Do you love drinking those blended iced coffee drinks from Starbucks and other trendy coffee shops? Do you hate that they cost a little more than a gallon of gas?

Well why not make your own using your own coffee, and you can also make as much as you want!


Here's what you need:

• Coffee grounds 
• Coffee maker
• Blender
• Ice Cube trays
• Plastic freezer bags
• Freezer
• Coffee condiments (sugar, milk, sweetener, etc.)
• If you have it peppermint extract, vanilla extract, cinnamon sticks, or other flavorings that you can get
• Whipped Cream (if you want to be fancy)

Here's what you need to do:

1. Make a very strong pot of coffee by using twice the grinds that you would for a regular brew.
2. Pour the brewed coffee into ice cube trays and freeze (DO NOT pour scalding hot coffee into ice cube trays, you wait  until it cools down so you're not melting stuff.)
3. Put the frozen ice cubes into a bag for storage.

EXTRA PROTIP: Break up a cinnamon stick into the coffee grounds before brewing for a cinnamon flavored coffee. This beats paying $10 on a bag of premium handpicked roasted 1st class priority imported genuine gourmet cinnamon coffee grounds. 

How to make your own blended iced coffee drink:

Time to get your blender ready.

1. Place about 7-8 cubes, 1 cup of milk, teaspoon or two of flavoring, and sugar/sweetener to taste in a blender.
2. Blend it, puree until smooth.
3. Throw some whipped cream on it, garnish it with a cinnamon stick or something.
4. Feel good that you can make this when you want, how you want, and as much as you want.

How to make your own gourmet coffee:

1. Just add peppermint extract or vanilla extract (or you can buy your favorite flavors) stirred into your regular cup of coffee.
2. Doing this isn't any different than what they do at coffee shops.

EXTRA PROTIP: If you do crave coffee but not a lot of it, there is a "secret size" called a "short" at Starbucks coffee shops. It is smaller than the Tall, but a lot cheaper! Just ask for a "short" size of whatever coffee you want!

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Got some leftover chicken? Make some delicious chicken salad with it, NOW.

Do you want to turn ordinary leftover chicken into a scrumptious feast fit for royalty?

Tired of eating chicken by itself like some kind of boring, ordinary chicken-eater? Make chicken exciting again by using the most basic of cooking techniques.

MIXING STUFF TOGETHER TO MAKE OTHER STUFF.

Make a chicken salad, you'll be egg-cited to know that most of the ingredients can be found in your kitchen already. No fowl play here, just follow the recipe carefully to keep yourself a-breast of how truly easy it is.


Here's what you need:

• Chicken, either bought from the deli, store, canned, restaurant, leftover, safely found, or killed by your merciless hands and cooked to your personal preference. Debone it and put it in a bowl.

• Celery, 1 or 2 stalks chopped into smaller pieces of celery. Yes, use a knife or ask a friend to help you with the knife. Put them in the bowl with the chicken.

• Mayonnaise, use as much as you desire depending on how much chicken you have. But obviously don't drown the chicken in mayonnaise. Would you like more chicken with your mayo?

• Add dried cranberries, or if you don't fancy cranberries you can also use grapes.

• Garlic powder, paprika (if you want some extra Zazz), also some salt and pepper (you know what those look like). Use as desired, but not too much.

"I'm good on a lot of things."

• This is optional for an extra kick, Sriracha sauce.

Here's what you do:

MIX EVERYTHING IN THE BOWL. CHILL IT FOR LATER OR EAT IT RIGHT AWAY.

Enjoy it in a sandwich, on toast, by itself, or...in pita pockets?

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"I woke up late and ALL of my clothes are wrinkled because I didn't have time to iron them!"

Have you ever found yourself waking up late realizing that you have absolutely no time to iron your clothes?

You may find yourself in this position, especially if you didn't have time to iron them right after you did your laundry.

Have no fear!

There is a way to prepare for such situations in the future AND cut your total ironing time in half!

Here's what you need:

• An iron (obviously)
• Ironing board
• Aluminum foil

Optional additional materials:

• An ice cube
• 1 small cloth

1. Take a sheet of aluminum paper and slide it under the fitted ironing board cover, shiny side up. The shinier side will reflect heat better. The foil will reflect heat back through the clothing as you iron, smoothing out wrinkles more efficiently.

2. Wrap an ice cube in a small cloth and dab it onto really tough wrinkles before passing your iron over them.

Why does this work?

Ironing boards suck up an iron's heat, causing you to make several passes over your clothes to get rid of wrinkles. Slipping a sheet of foil under the fitted ironing board cover will help redirect the heat back through the clothing like a two-sided iron "sandwiching" your wrinkled garments. The ice cube wrapped in cloth will moisten those tougher wrinkles giving you the power of steam!!

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