Sites online have posts about the genius trick that ... . Mostly they aren't genius, a label much misused, but that started me thinking about small changes in what you do that are clear improvements, typically when you realize that what you were doing was stupid. We used to keep the butter dish in the refrigerator, making the butter too hard to spread; now we keep it, covered, on the table. Butter at room temperature doesn't tear the bread, does spread. It can sit at room temperature a long time before it goes rancid and ours never has; before that happens we have used it up and put in a fresh stick. A second example occurred to me this morning. I used to keep a pair of swimming goggles for onion chopping in a drawer in the kitchen; in recent years my wife and daughter have done most of the cooking so I only just discovered that they were no longer there. I have just chopped a pound of onions. When my eyes recover I will go back downstairs to chop another pound. I should buy another...
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