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I keep table salt in a shaker (which rarely gets used), cooking salt (for salting water for cooking pasta & potatoes) and malton or sea salt flakes for seasoning stews, sauces, meat etc.

Bill Granger has been featuring a similar method in his cookbooks for years without the plastic wrap.

If your Wushof santoku, which until this point has been effortlessly slicing through onion, suddenly requires more force, best you check that it's not slicing through your thumb nail and thumb. Also particularly pay more attention if you have ten people arriving for lunch in an hour.

Australia - as ebarrett3 & RosieGreenie mentioned, beer, wine & spirits can only be sold from a liquor store. Liquor stores require a liquor licence to sell alcohol which is issued by the state government. There are some independent liquor stores but most are owned, or franchised stores owned by the two major grocery retailers, Woolworths & Coles. Most shopping centres will have a small liquor store attached to the supermarket but you generally have to do two separate transactions. You'll often find bottle shops attached to pubs. As ebarrett3 mentioned, you can buy 'takeaways' over the counter from pubs but it's not very popular these days since the proliferation of separate liquor stores offering a better range and prices.
Until a couple of years ago, the state I live allowed bottle shops attached to pubs to sell on Sundays but freestanding liquor stores couldn't. Also liquor stores can't trade on Good Friday, Anzac Day & Christmas.

Recipes that list 'juice of 1/2/3 lemon(s)' Sometimes you can get 2 tsps of juice and other times 1/4 cup of juice from a single lemon. Recipes which use a substantial amount of lemon (lime, grapefruit, passionfruit) juice such as lemon butter should detail the specific amount ie fl oz, mls.

Yepp, a digital one and I use it every day. I use to have the exact one featured in the photo but the display is very small. I got a new one when I started baking at my BF's house and it has a much larger, illuminated display.

The other BIG advantage over using cups is that there is much less washing up using a scale. Just the bowl that you're going to mix things in anyway and maybe a spoon (though most of my dry goods have a scoop stored inside.

I'm pretty good at maths but even I find doubling/halving a recipe is much easier when using a scale. And is is just me or does anyone get grossed out seeing Ina Garten leveling cups of flour with her finger?

haha, i had cee lo green playing when my boyfriend's mum arrived a couple of weeks ago. I was on the over side of the house to the stereo when she arrived and desperately made a mad dash to turn it off. Instead, my mad dash sparked her curiousity and she insisted on hearing the song.

My favourite shape for Mac & cheese is curly macaroni. It has a ridged surface and just looks cute.

We have a similar cookie available all year round in Australia called a 'Chocolate Royal'. It's made by Arnotts, the same company that makes Tim Tams.