So you got your hands on some new utensils. Straying away from metal or wood, you’ve opted for silicone. For some people who have been using silicone for years, they’ve got care down pat. But do you find yourself wondering if you can put those new utensils in the dishwasher? The short answer is yes,…
In our house, pizza is a favorite Friday night meal for our family. It’s relatively cheap, incredibly convenient, and requires very little cleanup. I really don’t even need to mention the best part about pizza, which is that it’s simply delicious. While takeout pizza shouldn’t require any heating in the oven, the same can’t be…
Fruit flies get to me a little more than most people, I think. When I was in college, I lived in an apartment that had a major fruit fly problem. There were literally swarms of them in our kitchen at one point in time. I remember trying all sorts of methods, including opening the doors…
Aluminum foil has been a go-to in our household for baking for as long as I can remember. Although it’s relatively expensive, the convenience factor more than makes up for it. Whether we’re baking cookies, fries, or just about anything else, we simply throw our food on some foil, throw it in the oven, and…
Between my wife and I, we go through a lot of coffee at our house. With that being said, we go through plenty of coffee filters as well. For as long as we’ve been drinking coffee, we’ve been tossing our filters directly into our trash bin, but is that really the right thing to do?…
At our house, we go through a lot of eggs, which means we end up with a lot of eggshells. Growing up as children, my wife and I were always told to throw these in the trash bin. Now that we’re older, we’re questioning whether or not that’s the best place for our scraps. One…
If you’re like my younger son, you go through bananas faster than a primate. He’s not a picky eater by any means, but there are certain things that he absolutely loves. Bananas are one of them. While bananas make for a quick and easy snack, they also produce a lot of waste with the leftover,…
My wife and I seem to always be changing our diets, and recently, we started incorporating more olive oil into our meals. We regularly use it as a healthy dressing on salads and often use it for any low-heat frying or baking that requires oil as well. We’ve always poured our used oil (of any…
Adding a garbage disposal to your kitchen sink can make life a bit easier by saving you time and cutting down on the amount of food waste you throw away. At the same time, if you don’t treat it the way it was intended, you can potentially end up with a costly repair bill. While…
If you’re like my family, you go through your fair share of paper plates. As much as we’d like to help the environment by using only reusable dishware, sometimes it’s in our best interest to use something that requires very little cleanup. There’s also times where it just makes more sense to use paper, such…