This refurbished Macbook Air is on sale for $399.99 right now (reg. $575). It’s originally from 2017, but it has been refurbished with a Grade “B” rating, which means there may be faint scuffs that don’t affect its performance. It has a 13.3-inch display with 1440 x 900 resolution, a full-sized backlit keyboard, and…
Source: LifeHacker – This Refurbished MacBook Air Is 5 Off Right Now
I’m a 70s baby, and the badge of my people is our incredibly strong feelings for fondue. And, you know, talking cars and Care Bears and an unwilling affection for the Bee Gees. But fondue endures in a way K.I.T.T. can’t.
Source: LifeHacker – Fondue Doesn’t Have to Be Intimidating
I have (somewhat infamously) written about recipes you should never make. As I jotted down this recipe for cheese curds, I genuinely assumed no one would follow my lead; it was simply too laborious for such chaotic times. I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t even like cheese curds, or at least I thought I didn’t.
Source: LifeHacker – Real Cheeseheads Make Their Own Squeaky Curds
Having separate types of paint for indoor versus outdoor use may sound like a marketing ploy to get us to buy more paint—reminiscent of when advertisers a century ago tried to convince women to switch from a single all-purpose skin cream to using separate products for day and night. However, in this case, there are…
Source: LifeHacker – Why You Shouldn’t Use Exterior Paint Inside
Cheesemaking can be really labor intensive, with a lot of time spent stirring, standing, and waiting around for milk to fulfill its curdy destiny. But then the workload drops off, and you have to transfer your efforts to a cheese cave and wait while it hangs out in Tupperware or a vacuum-sealed plastic bag.
Source: LifeHacker – Cheese Wrapping Is an Essential Part of Cheesemaking
Bloomy cheese is the reason to start cheesemaking. It encompasses the best parts of cheesemaking: You get to watch impossible clouds of fluffy curds condense into adorable wheels of cheese with fabulous patterns, and gaze upon the fuzzy mold as it blooms—mold you put there, yourself, on purpose. And after many weeks…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Make Sexy, Gooey Camembert
It’s hard to talk about cheese without mentioning balls—big, white, wet balls. Mozzarella isn’t the easiest cheese to make, but it’s the one people often start with. In the world of cheese appreciators, there are those who enjoy your hard classics: cheddar, muenster, a big lacy Swiss. And then you have the gourmands…
Source: LifeHacker – The Easiest Way to Make Fresh Mozzarella (and Burrata)
Feta is already pretty perfect. It has a crumbly, moist mouthfeel, a good bit of salty umami, and a great shelf life, but you can take it one step further by preserving your homemade (or even store-bought) feta in oil.
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Preserve Your Feta in Oil
It’s now September, which means that it’s time to start planting spring-flowering bulbs like daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips. If you’re new to gardening, it can take a while to get used to thinking so far in advance, but if you time it out right, you can ensure you have something blooming—or at least green—year-round.
Source: LifeHacker – Avoid These Mistakes When Planting Bulbs in the Fall
Here’s the downer about fresh cheese: It has a shelf life. Sure, you can extend that shelf life in the freezer, but those icicles don’t do our curdy friends any favors. You can have a brief romance with a brie (about a week or two), and a gruyere can offer you a committed month of intense adoration, but for the most…
Source: LifeHacker – Homemade Feta Is Better Than What You Can Get at the Store
Ricotta doesn’t get enough airtime. It’s a perfect food, capable of handling both savory and sweet, and it lives in that space between smooth and silky and toothsome. I challenge you to find a cheese with as much potential as ricotta.
Source: LifeHacker – Turn Creamy Ricotta Into a Hard Grating Cheese
At some point in your cheesemaking journey, you’ll need a cheese press. But before you run off to the big warehouse in the cloud to get one, you should know a few things about cheese presses, so you buy the right one. (Hint: I couldn’t find one on Amazon that met the grade.)
Source: LifeHacker – This DIY Cheese Press Is Better Than Anything You Can Buy
As extreme weather is becoming increasingly common, so too are the power outages that often accompany it. From downed power lines following a strong thunderstorm or blizzard, to the grid getting overloaded as people crank the air conditioning to stay cool during a heatwave, we’re losing electricity more frequently,…
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Leave Your Portable Generator on Empty
Chèvre is one of those fantastical cheeses that plays both sides of the fence—the sweet and the savory. This flexibility explains why it’s so easy to find in the grocery store deli. Often, you’ll find logs of the goat cheese with some sort of flavoring, because chèvre is highly receptive to that sort of thing. The…
Source: LifeHacker – Season Fresh Chèvre With Herbs, Spices, and Anything Else That Strikes Your Fancy
I engage in a lot of high-risk activities. Not doing drugs or jumping off cliffs so much, but fermentation, pottery, and gardening, the sorts of hobbies that have a high failure rate that you just have to accept as part of the game. Cheesemaking is like that, and even now, many years into my journey, I occasionally…
Source: LifeHacker – Lose Your Cheesemaking Virginity to Chèvre
While you really don’t need a special location or kitchen to make cheese, you will need some equipment—and, most importantly, a deep appreciation for cleanliness. I thought I knew about sterilization from my many years of canning, preserving, and fermenting, but I was in no way prepared for how diligent you must be…
Source: LifeHacker – Everything You Need to Make Your Own Cheese
You can get a Premium Plus+ lifetime subscription to Dollar Flight Club on sale for $59.97 right now (reg. $1690) through Labor Day, September 4. The service helps save you from having to scour the web to find cheap flights. You just choose up to four departure airports from which you want to get deal, wait for Dollar…
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get Dollar Flight Club for Right Now
Humans can live without a lot of things, but clean water isn’t one of them. And while you may have a few jugs of water stashed in a closet or your basement for emergency situations, would it be enough to sustain all the members of your household? And is it safe to drink? Here’s what to know about storing your…
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Way to Store Your Emergency Water Supply
When we enter the workforce, we all come in with different life experiences, maturity, emotional intelligence, and understanding of longstanding power structures and systemic inequities. This is often most visible when it comes to entitlement.
Source: LifeHacker – The Most Effective Ways to Deal With Entitled Coworkers
While most of us reach for a vacuum when we need to clean up a non-liquid spill on the floor, there are still times when it makes sense to grab a dustpan and brush. Whether your vacuum’s battery needs to be recharged, or it takes less effort to use a dustpan for smaller messes, it helps to have one handy.
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Wet Your Dustpan Before Using It