Welcome to February, and a month of Home Hacks: Smart How Tos for Great Homes. We're going to be focusing on How To all month. What do you want to learn this month? What would you like to get done around the home, and how can we help?
We would love your input on tutorials and How To posts. When it comes to cooking and kitchen projects, is there anything you would like learn? From how to scramble eggs to how to paint your kitchen cabinets, small or big, simple or complex, tell us here, and we'll do our best to give you great tutorials on those topics this month.
If you have an excellent How To tutorial that you've done yourself and would like to share, then feel free to send that along as well!
Magic One-Ingredient Ice Cream 5 Ways: Peanut Butter, Nutella, and More
Make Chocolate Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping with Only 2 Ingredients
Our reading list
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
30 DIY Projects for the 3-Day Weekend
Tina Wilson's Striking Style 
Comments (14)
Want to know tips on how to change out kitchen faucet, garbage disposal and under sink water filter.
Want to learn how to keep the kitchen more organized, continue practicing (cause that's how we learn!) to cook with seasonal ingredients.
I'd love to know how to make an excellent marmalade!
General request: recipes for people without food processors please.
Not necessarily this month, but I really want to learn to cut ribs for kalbi. (Not flanken cut, but the other way. There is about 2" of bone at one end, and the meat is in a long, thin strip.)
I would like to know how to zest/ remove peel from a lemon without chunking it, or taking up bits of the pith. If there is a trick or shortcut out there that someone can share, please do!
I'd love either a hack or a How To for caulking around sinks. For the love of muther, I can not use the standard caulk "guns" (my hand can not get around the grip--I have the same problem with staple guns) and those teeny squirt tubes seem too-good-to-be-true. Spreading with gloved fingertip or a popsicle stick just ended up being messy, inefficient and horrible for even coverage. Thanks for the help!
I'd love to learn how to cut up a whole chicken!
How do I know how long to cook things in the oven? Warm them up? What temperature? This seems to be something everyone just KNOWS but I've never been able to figure out the formula.
I'm with stephaniedg! I would love to see a comprehensive guide to fully organizing a kitchen. Maybe one guide for renters and one for homeowners. I'm looking for some really simple, yet innovative strategies.
I would love to know how to separate the meat and bone from chicken thighs. I would love to make proper chicken teriyaki but my country doesn't sell boneless chicken thighs.
The organizing kitchen guide sounds like a very good things to see here (everyone can benefit from a little guidance to organizing).
How do you use the broiler? How do you put food a certain distance from the flames? Do you preheat? How do you control how long it broils for - with my oven, the flames cut off after a couple of minutes.
Thanks for letting us ask our own questions! That's perfect!
I'd like to know how to sharpen kitchen knives? What kind should we bother sharpening? Do they all need to be sharpened? And I mean sharpening by hand, not with some spinning-stone-wheel machine! Thanks!
I've been using apartment therapy as a huge inspiration for making my kitchen something I want to use. I've documented the idea/process so far here:
http://glompbot.tumblr.com/post/423051221/ikea-hacking-obsession-or-thrift
I just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration!