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Kitchen
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Kitchen
The Sponge You Clean Might Not Be Any Cleaner
Researchers checked 14 used kitchen sponges. The ones their owners regularly cleaned didn’t have fewer bacteria.
Kitchen
The Date on Your Yogurt Probably Isn’t a Safety Date
A family of four throws out about $1,800 of food a year. Part of the reason is a date on the package that’s easy to misread.
Kitchen
What a Volcano Scientist Figured Out About Your Coffee Grinder
A volcano scientist helped figure out why coffee grounds cling to everything. The fix scientists found is a drop of water.
Kitchen
Should Tomatoes Go in the Fridge? Scientists Tested It, and the Answer Is “It Depends on the Clock”
Chilling a tomato doesn’t just make it cold. In one study, a week in the cold switched down genes that make its flavor.
Kitchen
The Indiana Town Where “Garbage Was Illegal”
In 1950, a flyer announced “Garbage is Illegal in Jasper.” That Indiana town helped change what’s under your sink.
Kitchen
Scientists Ranked the Greatest Food Inventions. The Winner Is Covered in Magnets.
The plough, the knife, the oven: scientists weighed them all. Refrigeration won, and the microwave came 19th.
Kitchen
Scientists Ran 2,560 Tests on the Five-Second Rule. Some Bacteria Didn’t Need One Second.
Scientists tested the five-second rule 2,560 times. Some bacteria moved in under a second, and wet food fared worst.Also filed here
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