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Boiling Pot

 5 Minute Crafts has a small cooking hack for boiling pasta or other starchy foods that I tried. Wiping olive oil around the inner rim of the pot with a paper towel keeps it from boiling over. This one is pretty straightforward and makes sense, unlike some of their other hacks. The best part is when they don't make sense, though. Here are the things I used:

And here is the pot boiling over before the hack, then the pot after the hack:

Hooray.

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