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Dealing with garlic peel has always been my least favorite part of peeling garlic. They either stick to my fingers or float in the kitchen, carried by a gentle breeze, before settling on random appliances. But I don’t get angry with them anymore, dear ones, because they turn out to be a damn broth.

I saved long onion skins for broth and I don’t know why I didn’t do the same thing with garlic. The outer, more papery pieces don’t have much flavor, though they can help color your broth, but the stuff you pull right off the clove – the sticky paper sticking to your fingers? -, that stuff is coated in goodness of garlic.

Although I’d read about adding garlic peel to broth before, I was initially skeptical that they would do so much in terms of taste, so I gathered a couple of these (a couple of onions) and added them to a saucepan with a couple of cups of water.

After only 10 minutes of simmering, my kitchen was filled with the faint, earthy and pungent aroma of garlic. After 15 minutes – and after sifting out the bowls – I had a golden, fragrant liquid that tasted decidedly garlicky and quite tasty.

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Photo: Claire Lower

Of course, this means that you should Keep garlic peels in your “storage bag”. (along with all the other wonderful vegetable scraps you hoard for such a purpose) but don’t turn down the idea of ​​a plain broth with only garlic peel. This stuff is insanely flavorful, lasts a quarter of an hour, and can be used to add the goodness of garlic to a wide variety of dishes. Use it instead of water if you can Make rice, stir it into sauces and saucesor – the hell – sip it when you have a cold.

This story was originally published in August 2017 and was updated on March 2, 2021 for clarity and to reflect Lifehacker’s current style guidelines.

I don’t use my Mac and iPhone together as often as I should. I generally tend to have tasks done on one side or the other instead of hand over my work between the two platforms. I could change this though as I see how easy it is to trigger my iPhone’s document scanning capabilities from my Mac.

That sounds a little nerdy and niche – and it is – but I envision a setup where someone pats their iPhone on a cheap tripod, points it at a table, and mixes papers with it. And instead of having to keep tapping the phone to take pictures of those documents that could inevitably crowd out of their position, scanning the batch documents from the Mac sounds like a snapshot.

Thanks to The edge (and the TikToker they found) to bring this hack to my attention. First, make sure your Mac is running macOS Mojave (at least) and your iPhone is using iOS 12 (at least). Both must have WiFi and Bluetooth enabled and both must (obviously) be signed in to the same Apple ID.

Then you want to call an application that has the function “Pass-through camera”Function – a list of them You will find here. We’ll use Notes as an example of this. Simple in every old note Ctrl + click To start your context menu, select the “Scan Documents” option on your phone, which should appear at the bottom of the menu.

Screenshot: David Murphy

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When you do this, your iPhone will immediately go into camera mode. When it detects a document, it automatically scans its contents and asks you whether or not you want to keep the photo:

Screenshot: David Murphy

The only downside to this little trick is that you have to tap your iPhone to save or discard the document scan. Select the former and it will automatically appear in the Mac app you are using – it’s that simple.

In a perfect world, you can save or discard the photo right from your Mac. And maybe one day this option will appear. Until then, the Continuity Camera isn’t perfect for scanning documents, but it does make the whole process a lot more convenient. This is even more true when you have a number of documents that you want to scan in one setting. You still need to tap your phone a little, but at least it’s much faster than uploading your recordings to iCloud, waiting, downloading it to your Mac, and positioning it in the document you were working on.

Me? I just save them all in one folder as Continuity Camera works right out of the Finder too. As an added bonus, anything you scan with your iPhone is automatically converted to a PDF file.

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We as a society are obsessed with the question of whether a particular meal is “good” or “bad” for us. But with the exception of things like poisonous mushrooms (which I wouldn’t classify as “food”), no food is bad for you.

The last time I saw a headline promising judgment on a particular food was it about cheesebut you know the guy. Coffee Is Or Isn’t Bad For You; Dairy Is Or Isn’t Bad For You; Eggs, butter, soy, fruit juice, whatever. However, if you are asking if a particular food is bad for you, you are already asking the wrong question.

Food cannot be healthy or unhealthy on its own. It is the bigger picture of how you eat that affects your health. The basics of a healthy diet are pretty easy to look up, and you probably already know them. Eat nutrient-dense foods, less processed products if possible, keep a reasonable number of calories, and limit sugar and saturated fat (ideally to less than 10% of the calories each).

What are you really wondering Do you like cheese and want to enjoy it without feeling guilty? You can only eat the cheese. Are you afraid of eating too much cheese? Well, add up the crap calories.

I wonder if we like to hear that food is “good” or “bad” so that we can immediately react emotionally to the purchase or the food. You might choose to watch a horror movie instead of a comedy just to stir emotions. Similarly, you might like to eat chocolate while thinking, “This is good for me, so it’s okay to enjoy.” Maybe it’s nowhere near as fun drinking a piece of chocolate while thinking, “Uh, just a different meal.”

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What science says

Every time a study of a particular food is published, its scope is limited and its methods indirect. Sometimes the researchers fed the feed, or more often an isolated chemical component of it, to animals (or sometimes even to humans) and measured a certain result of their biology. In other cases, large groups of people will be asked to fill out the form Food frequency questionnairesand conclusions are drawn from these people’s health outcomes, such as: B. their weight or their longevity or their rate of heart disease.

But in no case are we actually testing anything specific about the food. In the questionnaires, the investigators ask a question that goes something like this: What health consequences do people who eat a lot of cheese have in common?

There are many variables hidden in this question. For example, do people who eat a lot of pizza, either because they are too busy to cook or too poor to have a fancier takeaway, dominate the cheese-eating population? These studies are not drug trials where you can randomize people and put them into cheese or non-cheese groups. We all have varied diets, and the best a study can do is make generalizations about different people who eat different diets.

And when we look at the results, they often vary from study to study. One study could find that people who eat a lot of a certain food live a little longer than those who don’t. Another may find that they are slightly more likely to be overweight. Is it really fair to say that the first study showed that this food is “good for us” and the other is “bad”? I do not believe that. “Good” and “bad” are summary judgments of what food means for our health. It cannot be “good” and “bad” at the same time, even if both studies were done well and their conclusions are more or less accurate.

In the end, we can only really judge whether we are eating well overall, and there are many ways that we can do it. No single food has magical properties that override the rest of your diet. So let’s stop judging food as if it could be “good” or “bad” on its own.

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Being labeled “crazy” is just for making you feel crazy. It is already a loaded term – an insensitive term for someone prone to riotous outbursts or violent behavior – but it is often used to describe someone who may not be conventionally “normal” behavior.

It is one of those words that we use too lightly, and it fits in with other insensitive, once ubiquitous terms that are now considered to be derelict (including “the R word”). Calling someone crazy may not be a big deal, but the word can be harmful, as comedian Dave Chappelle pointed out in a 2006 interview with Inside The Actors Studio. During the interview, he became noticeably frustrated talking about the idea of ​​labeling others as crazy, which was due to having escaped the limelight after a trip to Africa to gain media control over Chappelles’ success Withdraw show.

It seemed like a radical idea at the time, but Chappelle – for which there is no shortage of legitimate criticism his own problematic comments on the transgender community– was on something. And the feeling only picked up pace as social mores generally evolved to be less humiliating to people who struggle.

It goes way beyond labeling people as “crazy”: there are many other phrases that you should pick out of your vocabulary – with your co-workers and beyond – that other people could trigger, regardless of your own intentions to use them use.

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Calling someone “crazy” or “crazy”

The idea of ​​being “crazy” or “insane” is inherently dismissive as it doesn’t even scratch the surface of what may be making the person sick. Being labeled insane reinforces a stigma suggesting that the person fighting is weak and somehow not living up to the standards of normality.

As Brenda Curtis, professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Pennsylvania University, explains in 2018:

“One of the most common stereotypes about mental health and substance use disorders is the idea of ​​moral failure. A lot of people will think, “Oh, they’re just sad, get over it” or, “Oh, if you don’t want to do drugs just stop, no one made you do it.”

It is also an insult that is mostly hurled at women. Most of the time, it’s a word that’s pulled out To describe women, and often used by men– which are notorious Pressure seals of suppressed emotions. If a friend or co-worker is acting in a way that you find uncomfortable or bothersome, find an accurate way to talk to them about it. Don’t call her crazy.

Suggesting someone is “on the spectrum”

Comparing a person’s social tics or awkwardness with autism is similarly insensitive. In one fell swoop, you managed to play chair psychologist and paint the wide range of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder with a single brush at the same time. Again, comparing the perceived lack of communication with autism means whitewashing the more general circumstances they might be suffering from, whether or not autism is one of them.

There is a very specific list of symptoms that people with ASD and related disorders experience, such as: Asperger syndrome. You need to know what you are talking about before making this type of claim. If you use it casually, you are doing the person you are talking about and autistic people everywhere.

Name your decent colleague “OCD”

Similar to ASD, you should never reduce a debilitating state to a verbal trifle. People who are extremely organized, tidy, and clean are often sent to a camp by others who observe behavior at the surface level and extrapolate larger judgments from there. Avoid using funky expressions that serve as overarching diagnoses for people who may be more focused on organization or neatness that you consider normal. Even if the person concerned doesn’t mind or uses it to describe their own behavior, it can harm someone who is genuinely suffering from the disease by making it seem like a simple nuisance.

In reality, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mentally distressing illness that is at war with one’s emotional state. As Lisa Whittington-Mill recently wrote about her struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder::

If the voice in my head isn’t telling me to check the stove repeatedly to make sure it’s turned off or my apartment catches fire, the voice is telling me that I’m imperfect – I’m a failure for not having it can silence. So I push myself to work harder, do better, and achieve more. I am so disappointed with myself that I channel that frustration into a near-impossible level of perfectionism. Stress only makes it worse. When there are things that I cannot control, I focus on my compulsions – which sometimes feel like what I can control.

Calling a thin person “anorexic” or “bulimic”

This is perhaps the most obvious example, but a discussion of a person’s body in these terms (private or otherwise) should never be conducted. Around 20 million women and 10 million men You will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in your life and fight against psychologically and physically harmful urges. Saying that everyone you consider to be underweight has an eating disorder creates a stigma of mental instability in the person you are referring to – someone who might very well and need not have body dysmorphism or an eating disorder Hear any judgments about it from you.

These terms – and many others that you could pronounce without a thought every day – should be easy to remove from your vocabulary as there are many ways to express yourself without demonizing or belittling a group of already marginalized people.