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This Video Shows How to Make McDonald’s-Like French Fries at Home

Many of us firmly believe McDonald’s french fries are the best french fries. You don’t have to head to the fast food joint for a nearly identical version you can make at home.

PopSugar takes the ingredients and process McDonald’s uses to reverse engineer their fries. Like Serious Eats’ copycat recipe, which we’ve salivated over before, PopSugar’s take uses peanut oil instead of the mix of oils McDonald’s uses (but omits the vinegar in Serious Eats’ version). This version also adds corn syrup in place of McDonald’s use of dextrose, to help the fries caramelize, and adds beef fat to replicate McDonald’s beefy flavor bath. As with making extra extra crispy fried chicken, you’ll give the potatoes a second fry for super crispiness.

Check out the very enthusiastic video above for the whole process or the link below for the text version. Or head here for more McDonald’s copycat recipes and tips.

The Homemade Secret to McDonald’s French Fries | PopSugar


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How to Win Your Physics Class Egg Drop Competition

How to Win Your Physics Class Egg Drop Competition

The problem is simple enough. You’ve got a raw egg, and it’s going to be dropped from a high place. You have to build a contraption so that it doesn’t break when it hits. Easy? Maybe. But how do you make it as light as possible? Or as small as possible?

These questions have had high school physics students pulling all-nighters for decades. Luckily for the generations to come, our good friend former NASA engineer Mark Rober is here to enlighten you. Just like with his Pinewood Derby video, he not only shows you some of the best systems for winning (depending on what the rules of your particular contest consist of), but it breaks down the science of exactly how each one works. Not only will this help you sound smart when your teacher asks you how you came up with it, but hopefully it will inspire you to try something original that’s based on these principles.

Personally, I don’t have any kids in high school, nor am I likely to be entering an egg drop contest anytime soon, and yet I was absolutely glued to this video. I don’t know what I’m going to do with this knowledge, but it’s probably going to be something fun. And I trust that these solutions will work. If he can safely land a rover on Mars then he can safely land an egg on the ground, okay? [Mark Rober]

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This Graphic Shows How to Defeat Garden Pests with Other Insects

When it comes to gardening, not all insects are bad. For a natural pest control solution, consider welcoming beneficial insects or one of the other DIY pest control options in this infographic.

The graphic, from First Choice Environmental, highlights some of the bugs that destroy your garden—and the “good” insects that feed on those garden pests. You can either order them or, as the graphic shows, use insectary plants to lure the beneficial insects. The graphic also provides a few details on using row covers and diatomaceous earth. (For further reference, there’s also a beneficial insects poster with photos of more good bugs from University of California.)

The info here might be old news for experienced gardeners, but for hapless beginners like me, good to know.

Infographic: How to protect your garden with organic pest control methods | Inhabitat

This Graphic Shows How to Defeat Garden Pests with Other Insects


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This Graphic Shows How to Defeat Garden Pests with Other Insects