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Food For Thought: 21 kitchen tips and tricks

This encore Food for Thought originally broadcast May 3, 2017

Nancy Leson and I love to share cooking and eating tips and tricks, but we don't always see things the same way. Nance says we agree to disagree. I say we each agree to think the other wrong and say so. 

This week we rattle off 21 of our favorites — including two that could save you a trip to the emergency room.

On this week's Food for Thought you'll learn:

How to avoid what ER personnel call BRI — bagel related injury.

Why throwing away that grill brush and replacing it with  a wooden scrapercould save your life.

Why not to buy onions in those net bags.

And 17 other useful tips and tricks, plus:

                                          Stein's Bonus Stubborn Pistachio Triumph

Turn a previous shell into a pry-bar. Wedge the thin end into the crack of the stubborn nut — twist and ta-dah!

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.  It is never of  any use to oneself."  – Oscar Wilde

Dick Stein joined KNKX in January 1992. He retired in 2020 after three decades on air. During his storied radio career, he hosted the morning jazz show, co-hosted and produced "Food for Thought" with Nancy Leson and wrote and directed the Jimmy Jazzoid live radio musical comedies and 100 episodes of Jazz Kitchen.