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Bread in the Round, Making Circular Loaves the Easy Way

Contrary to the title of this post, this isn’t about eating bread in a theatre. Instead it is a cheap and easy way to make perfectly round loaves of bread without buying a specialty pan or mastering some difficult dough rolling kung-fu.

Bake Bread in a Coffee Can for Perfectly Round, Evenly Baked Loaves with Little Crust

Bread cooked in a can? This must be some well kept secret! Who knew that a coffee can could have such a use.

Posted by DidYaSee March 13, 2012

Mega List of Common Cooking Mistakes and How to Overcome Them

Photo: Oxmoor House Story by Ann Taylor Pittman and Tim Cebula

Our Most Common Cooking Mistakes

Every cook, being human, errs, bungles, botches, and screws up in the kitchen once in a while. If you have not “caramelized” fruit in salt rather than sugar, you have not suffered the most embarrassing mistake made by one of our editors. We did not have to look much farther than our staff―and their encounters with readers, friends, and relatives―to compile a list of 25 common, avoidable culinary boo-boos.

The creative cook can often cook her way out of a kitchen error, but

Posted by DidYaSee February 27, 2012