A kitchen hack is an unusual, easier, and/or better way of performing a task that often saves money and time or improves the quality of the outcome. In this wacky but eminently useful collection of kitchen hacks, you will learn how to outsmart tricky tasks and face down kitchen challenges (big and small) with innovative and clever ideas from Quick Tips, the most popular feature in Cook's Illustrated magazine (900,000 circulation). Kitchen Hacks is a beautifully designed guidebook to hacking your kitchen . . . and beyond!Have a light-bulb moment every day when you open Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks. 100 hints, tips and hacks plus 100 recipes that put those hacks in action are all contained in Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks.With Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks you'll learn how to chop six hardboiled eggs at once, cool pans of cookies quicker than ever before, hull strawberries without sticky fingers and slice a dozen cherry tomatoes instantly. Take advantage of these timesaving hacks, then cook up the recipes that go with them. That's right! You'll find 100 recipes that take advantage of the mind-blowing tricks, tips and hacks in his unique kitchen helper. Step-by-step photos, new uses for old kitchen gadgets, simple ingredient substitutions and even kitchen-cleaning secrets make Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks one sensational guide you can't do without. n this follow-up to 2014's best-selling Kitchen Hacks, the expert editors at Cook's Illustrated magazine have applied the same creative thinking to a new Q&A-style book. Kitchen Smarts packs together hundreds of definitive, researched, kitchen-tested answers to questions large and small, common and bizarre. There are no dumb questions but there are dumb--and wrong!--answers, we're here to protect you from those and help you become a better, more confident cook.Now you can use modern ice trays to create everything from infused ice cubes to one-bite appetizers and even mini main dishes that will impress family and friends of all ages and keep the mess at bay.Contemporary ice cube trays are arguably one of the most overlooked gems of the modern kitchen. If you have a refrigerator that produces its own ice, you may not even be aware of how far ice cube trays have come and how useful they can be in creating something other than ice.Trays are now available in many different styles, ranging from the traditional rectangular shape to the one-inch square to the cocktail-style two-inch sphere-and there are a variety of decorative shapes, as well. And the ones made from baking-grade silicone neither melt nor crack, making them a respectable vessel in the kitchen.In chapters that include everything from soups and smoothies to canapes and sweets, you'll find recipes for every meal of the day. From the useful to the novel to the downright intriguing, each recipe offers a suggestion of the best ice cube tray to use but also allows for adaptations to traditional, regular-sized trays and novelty trays.This is the fun and inspirational book for home cooks who adore kitchen hacks and trendy entertaining and who like to experiment with new ideas.