A fresh salad with lettuce is a quick and very healthy dish, especially in summer. Home-grown lettuce is particularly healthy. The salad tastes wonderful with a flavoursome dressing. Home-grown lettuce is always fresh on the table if it is harvested and stored correctly.
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Is every beer carbonated? And why is that the case? All beer is sold with carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide gets into the beer either through natural carbonation or by adding carbon dioxide to the drink later. The beer absorbs the carbon dioxide and becomes fizzy.
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Carbonated drinks such as lemonade, cola, sparkling water or beer taste particularly good iced. The carbonic acid is refreshing, especially on hot summer days. Not everyone likes lemonade served with ice cubes because it dilutes the drink. To make the drinks ice-cold anyway, they are then quickly put in the freezer and forgotten about. What happens to carbonated drinks when they freeze?
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The fresher the egg, the better it tastes. So who wouldn't want to eat breakfast eggs that are as fresh as possible? But how do you recognise how old a hen's egg is? There's a simple trick you can use to determine whether eggs are fresh.
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If you've run out of filters or don't have a coffee machine to hand, you don't have to go without your morning cup of coffee. You can also use alternative methods to make normal instant coffee and don't have to resort to instant coffee.

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Frothy milk makes the coffee taste even better. However, not everyone has an electric or manual milk frother. But that's not even necessary, you can make milk nice and frothy and creamy without a milk frother.

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  The burning sensation in the mouth when eating hot chilli peppers or hot peppers is caused by a naturally occurring substance, capsaicin. Capsaicin is found in large quantities in the inner flesh of the chilli...

Crystallised honey is not only unattractive, it also no longer tastes good. The honey looks unappetising to most people and tastes like sugar. Honey crystallises if there is a high moisture content in the air, if it is exposed to excessive heat or if small dust particles have got into it. 

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Spring brings colourful blooms to the garden. The splendour of the flowers is not only pleasing to the eye, but also for the lunch table. Some flowers from the garden can be used to enrich salads or decorate meals. 

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An avocado usually needs one to three days to ripen if it is wrapped in a piece of paper at room temperature. If you don't want to wait that long, the ripening process can be simulated in the microwave. This way, the avocado can be softened in a short time. However, the fruit may lose some of its flavour when heated in the microwave. 

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