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How to Make Halloween Tombstones
Howcast - At a loss for exciting new Halloween decorations? Attract all the ghosts and goblins in your neighborhood to your yard with these spooky tombstones.
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How to Do the Vanishing Silverware Magic Trick
Howcast - Learn how to do the vanishing silverware trick from professional illusionist Ben Nemzer in this Howcast magic tricks video.
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What's the Best Knife for Camping or Backpacking?
Howcast - Learn about the best knife for camping or backpacking in this Howcast video with expert Dan Delavan.
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How to Chiffonade
Howcast - No, it's not some old-timey dance step. Or something draped over the lights in a brothel. Chiffonade is a technique used to cut leafy vegetables and herbs into slender ribbons.
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How to Cut a Bell Pepper
Howcast - Don't be discouraged by its crazy shape—a bell pepper can be tamed just like any other vegetable.
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How to Hone a Knife
Howcast - Honing a knife doesn't sharpen a blade, it straightens it — realigning the edge and maintaining it in between longer and more involved sharpening sessions.
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How to Julienne
Howcast - The slender cousin of the baton and matchstick cuts, the julienne cut takes its name from the extremely skinny chef who pioneered this technique. Ok, we made that up. Sorry.
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How to Large Dice
Howcast - This technique has nothing to do with the large fuzzy dice found in souped-up muscle cars; it has everything to do with the large diced veggies found in souped-up soups.
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How to Matchstick Cut
Howcast - This maneuver neatly reduces bumpy, bulbous, and otherwise wildly irregular vegetables into tidy strips of uniform size and shape that resemble—what else? Matchsticks.
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How to Baton
Howcast - Remember your carefree days as a baton twirler in your high school marching band? Well, this has nothing to do with that.
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How to Coarse Chop
Howcast - It's the chop of choice for almost any vegetable—from basic oblongs and spheroids, like garlic, onions, and potatoes, to the more irregular oddities, like mushrooms, rhubarb, and sun-dried tomatoes.
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How to Medium Dice
Howcast - We're no Zen masters, but doesn't it seem that somewhere between every large and every small there lies a happy medium?
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How to Small Dice
Howcast - Cubing isn't just for math geeks anymore. Just ask your local sous-chef, who probably cubes more items in a single night than all the 10th graders in America.
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How to Chop Garlic
Howcast - It's not just for repelling vampires anymore! Garlic's antibacterial properties are also said to drive away colds—but if you eat enough of it, you might be able to do both.
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How to Mince Cut Parsley
Howcast - You could mince your words, take mincing steps, or make mince-meat out of an opponent. But none of that will work on parsley—better use a mince cut.
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How to Supr̻me a Citrus
Howcast - When you supr̻me a citrus fruit, you cut away all the skin, pith, and membranes, leaving the sections of the fruit intact. It's not supr̻mely difficult, but it takes some care.
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How to Choose a Knife
Howcast - A brilliant painter needs just the right brush, a great mechanic needs just the right tool, and a true chef needs just the right knife. Choose wisely and half your work is done.
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How to Make a Campari & Soda
Campari — that quintessentially Italian bitters — was created in 1860 as a medicinal pre-dinner treat to aid digestion, which helped keep it on U.S. shelves even during Prohibition. So drink up, to your health!
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How to Make Fake Intestines
Gross out—and fake out—your friends by making some frighteningly, disgustingly real-looking intestines. Inspired by the Instructables project: http://www.instructables.com/id/Great-looking-disgusting-intestines-for-horror-f/
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How to Devein a Shrimp
The vein, which is really an intestine, is unsightly and gritty. Will eating it hurt you? No. Does it look nice? Not so much. So devein away.
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How to Make a Pink-Eraser Casing for Your USB Drive
Use erasers to make a crafty casing that'll hide and protect your thumb drive.
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How to Carve a Pumpkin
The first jack-o'-lanterns were carved centuries ago to ward off evil spirits. Now we use them to lure little ghosts and goblins to our home—but the technique remains the same.
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How to Paint with a Palette Knife
Sometimes painting with a brush can be a pain in the neck. Try painting with your palette knife instead.
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How to Cut an Avocado
Successful avocado slicing depends on not following the banana model of peel first, then slice. Avocados are best sliced with the skin still on.