🍟 Perfect homemade fries

ALSO: Librarians can do more!

Author

Keith Bradford
November 30, 2023

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Good morning life hackers,

This is 1000 Life Hacks, the daily newsletter that helps you improve your life each and every day… even if that’s just a little bit. 🥳

Hack of the day: When you feel like you need something, but you can't figure out what it is, it's water. It's always water.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

  • 🍟 Perfect homemade fries

  • 📚 Librarians can do more!

  • 🍽️ The truth behind hunger signals

  • 💻 5 Helpful links

  • 🎁 Bonus hack!

Read time: 3 minutes
LIFE HACK #112

For the perfect fries (crispy on the outside and tender on the inside) here's a simple little trick: Slice your potatoes and soak them in cold water BEFORE you start cooking them.

Why? It's all about the starch. As the slices chill, starches escape into the water, ensuring your fries stay soft on the inside. This technique guarantees a delightful contrast—crispy perfection on the outside and that melt-in-your-mouth goodness within. Enjoy!

Search Party: Chaos at the Park

Your search for the perfect family game is over. Search Party: Chaos at the Park is an epic 3-D pop-up search-and-find adventure. 

The people of Chaos City amusement park are in trouble and it's up to you to follow the characters around the park to help answer questions and solve mysteries! 

Over the course of 15 missions, you'll sabotage mad scientists, help parkgoers find love, and more. With fun pop-up structures and a highly intricate board packed with hidden objects and kooky characters, including 300 hidden items, the whole family will have a blast. 

The game is perfect for players 8+, so parents, siblings, cousins, and friends can all get searching together. Find it at Walmart, Target, Amazon, and Relatable.com. 

Brought to you by What Do You Meme? Family, a Relatable brand.

LIFE HACK #113

The next time you're at the library just remember that librarians aren't just random people who work there. They're professional researchers who are there to help you find a place to start researching a topic.

Their wealth of information is your gateway to unlocking the treasures of the library. Librarians are trained to:

  1. Conduct efficient searches

  2. Navigate databases

  3. Evaluate sources

  4. Recommend relevant materials

Services they provide:

  1. Reference assistance

  2. Information literacy sessions

  3. Interlibrary loans

  4. Specialized research guidance

LIFE HACK #114

Hunger is your bodies way of measuring how soon you should eat, not how much you should eat. A lot of people have this backwards.

When we're hungry, the body releases ghrelin, the hunger hormone. Its primary job is signalling the brain that it's time to eat. However, this doesn't correlate with needing a large meal.

Research shows that eating in response to intense hunger often leads to overconsumption. Instead, it's about responding promptly to the hunger cue with a balanced meal.

HELPFUL LINKS

💻 AROUND THE WEB…

  1. Washing your shoes. The proper (and safe) way to wash your shoes in a washing machine. (LINK)

  2. The best white noise machines. Some use white noise to help them sleep, some to help them focus. Here are the best. (LINK)

  3. Reduce dust build up. Quick and simple ways to stop dust from building up in your home. (LINK)

  4. No vacuum Christmas trees. 40+ Best Alternative Christmas Trees to Decorate Any Space in Your Home. (LINK)

  5. 15 minute core routine. 20 Core workouts that aren’t just doing boring old crunches. (LINK)

More links tomorrow!

BONUS HACK

That’s all for today. I hope your day is at least just a little bit better after reading.

If you have any life hacks you think we should include in our next newsletter send us a DM on Twitter: @1000lifehacks or Instagram: @lifehack.ers

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