| How to Close a Bag of Chips by Folding It Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:00 AM PDT If you don't have a bag clip, you have a few options when it comes to keeping your chips fresh. The easiest way to do this is to fold the top of the bag over itself multiple times after forcing the excess air out. If you do this, store your chips with the folds facing down and place a heavy object over the folds to keep the bag sealed. Another option is to fold the corners towards the middle of the bag before folding a few layers on top of the corners. Then, stick your thumbs in the corner folds and turn them over the top of the bag to create an airtight seal. [Edit]Creating a Simple Fold - Lay the bag down and smooth the bag out to remove air. Shake the bag a little to let the chips settle at the bottom of your bag. Set your bag of chips on its back so that the label is facing up. Smooth down the top portion of the bag 3-4 times until its flat. Work from the bottom of the bag to the top to remove the excess air from the bag.[1]
- This method is easy, but it won't keep the air out unless you store the opening under a heavy item.
- The more air there is the bag, the faster your chips will become stale.
- Fold the opening of the bag on top of itself. Rotate the bag so that the opening of the bag is facing you. Grip the corners of the open end with your index finger on top of the bag and your thumbs underneath. Fold the top of the bag over on top of itself to close the bag.[2]
- Continue folding the bag in layers. With your first fold completed, press down along the seam where you folded it. Then, slide your thumb underneath the fold and grab the top of the bag. Create an additional fold that is the same size as your first fold. Repeat the process until you've created 5-6 folds.[3]
- Press down along the top of the bag after each fold to keep it closed.
- Store the bag upside down on top of itself. Take your bag and flip it upside down so that the folds are on the bottom of the bag. Your bag of chips should stay folded automatically. To keep the folds from unraveling over time, place a vase, bowl, or something heavy on top of the folds to keep them weighed down.[4]
- Your folds may slowly come undone if you don't weigh them down at all.
[Edit]Making a Stronger Fold - Lay the bag on a table and flatten the top to remove excess air. Shake your bag a little to collect the chips at the bottom of the bag. Place your bag on a flat surface and lay it on its back so that the label is facing up. Then, use the palm of your hand to flatten the upper half of the bag. Do this 4-5 times to crease the sides of the bag.[5]
- This method creates the best seal but it requires a little more work. You'll also need more of the bag to be empty, so you may not be able to do this if your bag is mostly full.
- This method is really hard to pull off if you have a smaller bag of chips. You're better off simply folding smaller bags over.
- Fold the top corners of the bag towards the middle so they meet. Keeping the bag flat, fold each corner of the opened end towards the middle of the bag. Angle each corner downwards so that both corners meet below the bag's opening.[6]
- Fold the top over the corners. Keep your corners pressed flat as you pinch the top of the bag at the joints where the corners start to angle down towards the middle of the bag. Carefully fold the top of the bag down over the top of the corners.[7]
- Keeping the bag held down shouldn't be difficult. The easiest way to do it is to use your middle, ring, and pinky fingers to press them into the table while you're folding.
- Continue folding the top of the bag until you have 2-3 layers. Take your fold and repeat the process. Grab the top of your first fold and create a second fold that's the same size as your first layer. Repeat this process until you've created 2-3 layers. You must have at least of the corners available below your folds for this to work.[8]
- Press your palm flat into the folded sections of the bag to flatten them.
- Stick your thumbs into the corner flaps and invert the top of the bag. To seal the bag, hold the folds at the top of the bag down with your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers. Insert your thumbs between the corners and the bag. Lift the bag up and push your folds down while pulling the corners up to invert the top of the bag and close it on itself.[9]
- Essentially, the tension between the corners and the folds at the top will keep the bag sealed.
[Edit]Warnings - Once a bag of chips has been opened, they will start to go bad. Consume your chips with the next 1-2 weeks to enjoy them while they're fresh.
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| How to Make Emoji Cookies Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:00 PM PDT Emojis have taken over the language of texting. Instead of sending LOL, you can use a smiley face or a laughing Emoji. Instead of sending your love, you can just send a heart. You can turn these funny faces into cookies to dazzle your friends and family by making sugar cookies as a base and using royal icing to decorate them. [Edit]Ingredients [Edit]Sugar Cookies - 1 cup (227 g) of softened butter
- 1.5 cups (300 g) of granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- of vanilla extract
- 2.75 cups (398 g) of flour
- 1 tsp (13 g) of baking soda
- 1/2 tsp (6.5 g) of baking powder
[Edit]Frosting Base - 4 cups (500 g) of confectioners' sugar
- 3 tablespoons (30 g) of meringue powder
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) of extract (vanilla, lemon, almond)
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup (120 to 180 mL) of warm water
- Food coloring
[Edit]Baking Sugar Cookies - Preheat your oven to . Turn your oven on before you start mixing your ingredients, so it will be ready for your cookies. Keep it at so your cookies bake to the perfect consistency.[1]
- Combine butter and sugar in a large bowl. Mix together 1 cup (227 g) of softened butter and 1.5 cups (300 g) of granulated sugar with a baking spatula. Mix them together until they make a smooth mixture.[2]
- If you have a store-bought sugar cookie mix, you can use that instead.
- Beat in 1 egg and vanilla extract. Crack 1 large egg into the bowl and make sure there are no egg shells. Pour in of vanilla extract and stir your mixture until it is smooth.[3]
- Use imitation vanilla extract for a cheaper option.
- Blend in flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Add 2.75 cups (398 g) of flour, 1 tsp (13 g) of baking soda, and 1/2 tsp (6.5 g) of baking powder to your bowl. Stir them in gradually with a baking spatula until your mixture is combined and makes a soft dough.[4]
- Try not to overmix your dough, or you could cause your dough to become more dense.
- Roll out your dough with a rolling pin. Pour a thin layer of flour out on a countertop or cutting board. Use a rolling pin to spread your dough out until it is about thick.[5]
- Using flour helps the dough become less sticky and roll out smoother.
- Use cookie cutters to cut out circles, hearts, and other Emoji shapes. Place a few different cookie cutter shapes, like circles and hearts to make shapes for your Emojis. Cut out all of your shapes until you run out of dough.[6]
- Circles are great for Emoji faces, and you can even use the top of a Christmas tree cookie cutter to make the poo Emoji.
- Add small horns to the top of a circle cookie to make a devil Emoji shape.
- Use a unicorn outline cookie cutter for a cute unicorn Emoji.
- Lay your cookies out on a cookie sheet. Gently pull your shapes up and out of the dough. Lay them out on a baking tray with about in between each cookie.[7]
- Since sugar cookies have a lot of butter in them, you don't need to grease your baking tray.
- Bake your cookies for 8 to 10 minutes. Set your cookies on the middle rack of your oven and take them out when they are hard around the edges. Make sure your cookies don't get too brown, or they could burn.[8]
- Take your cookies out and let them cool. Set your baking tray on your stove top to let your cookies cool down. Wait for about 1 hour or until they get to room temperature.[9]
- If you have a cooling rack, use a spatula to transfer them there to make them cool down faster.
[Edit]Adding a Frosting Base - Make a batch of royal icing. Combine 4 cups (500 g) of confectioners' sugar, 3 tablespoons (30 g) of meringue powder, 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) of vanilla extract, and of water in a mixing bowl. Mix them up until you have smooth and creamy frosting.[10]
- If you have an electric mixer, you can use that to combine your ingredients quickly.
- Add 1 drop of food coloring to small portions of icing. Separate your icing batch into 5 to 6 small, equal portions. Add yellow, pink, red, brown, and black food coloring to 1 bowl of frosting at a time, and leave 1 pure white. Mix together your food coloring and frosting to create bright, vibrant colors.[11]
- If you aren't planning on making a poo Emoji, you don't need any brown frosting.
- Put your frosting into piping bags. Use a baking spatula to spoon different frosting colors into piping bags. Cut the tip off of each bag for a small hole that your frosting can come out of.[12]
- If you don't have a piping bag, you can make your own by stapling together parchment paper in a triangle.
- Make a yellow base on each circle cookie. Draw a yellow outline in frosting around the edge of each circle cookie. Use the frosting to fill in the circle and then let it sit for 10 minutes to harden.[13]
- Letting the frosting harden makes it a better base so it won't blend with your other colors.
- You can also use a purple base for a devil Emoji cookie, or a white base for a unicorn cookie.
- Decorate your heart cookies with pink or red frosting. Pipe an outline of frosting around the edges of each heart cookie. Use the same frosting to fill in the insides of the heart, and then let your cookies sit for at least 10 minutes.[14]
- Add brown frosting to your poo Emoji cookie. Use brown frosting in a piping bag to make a thin outline around your Christmas tree cookie. Then, fill in the middle with the brown frosting and let your cookie sit for 10 minutes.[15]
[Edit]Piping the Details of Your Cookies - Add a white mouth and closed eyes for the smiling emoji. Pipe a rectangular outline near the bottom of a yellow circle cookie and fill it in with white frosting. Use black frosting to create a grid of top and bottom teeth inside the mouth. Then, draw 2 closed eyes in a half moon shape up above for a cute, happy Emoji.[16]
- This is one of the simplest face Emojis to decorate.
- Pipe black sunglasses and a smile for the sunglasses Emoji. Outline thin black sunglasses near the top of a circle cookie. Fill in each lens so they are completely black. Then, pipe a thin smiling mouth underneath the glasses. Let your cookie dry for 10 minutes.[17]
- Add white eyes and a smile to your poo Emoji. Pipe 2 small ovals near the top of your poo Emoji cookie. Use the same white frosting to make a smiling mouth underneath the eyes. Then, add 2 small black dots on the eyes to make pupils and let your cookie dry for about 10 minutes.[18]
- Draw a red heart onto a kissing face for the kissing Emoji. Pipe 1 full eye and 1 winking eye at the top of a yellow circle cookie. Use the same black frosting to make a mouth by drawing a 3 on your cookie. Then, pipe a small red heart near the mouth and fill it in completely. Let your cookie dry for 10 minutes before you serve it.[19]
- You can also add eyebrows to this Emoji to make it more realistic.
- Add blue tears to the laughing Emoji. Pipe 2 eyes in half moon shapes to look like they are closed. Add some raised eyebrows in black above each eye. Use white and black frosting to pipe an open, smiling mouth with a line of white teeth. Then, use blue frosting to pipe 2 large blue tears coming out of the eyes of your Emoji.[20]
- The laughing Emoji is one of the most easily recognizable Emojis.
- Use hearts for eyes for the heart-eyes Emoji. Pipe 2 small hearts in the place of eyes near the top of a yellow circle cookie. Add a simple black mouth that is smiling underneath the eyes for a cute, easily recognizable heart-eyes cookie.[21]
- You can also use large heart sprinkles for the eyes if you have them.
- Decorate a purple cookie with a mean face for the devil Emoji. Draw 2 circular black eyes in the middle of your cookie and put some thick black eyebrows that point downward on top. You can make your devil Emoji smile with a happy face or angry with a frowny face for an evil-looking cookie.[22]
- Since there are 2 devil Emojis, you can choose whichever one you want to make, or even do them both.
- Pipe a small rainbow onto a circle cookie for a rainbow Emoji. Take a blank cookie and use red, yellow, blue, and green to pipe the lines of a rainbow in the center. Use white frosting to make clouds on either side of the emoji, or leave it blank for a more realistic rainbow.[23]
- Add some edible glitter on top of your cookie for an added sparkle.
[Edit]Things You'll Need - Mixing bowl
- Baking spatula
- Baking tray
- Piping bags
- Look at the Emojis on your phone for a guide as you decorate your cookies.
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| How to Fix a Separated Zipper Posted: 23 Jul 2020 09:00 AM PDT It's frustrating when zippers break suddenly, such as when their teeth separate and the zipper slider won't open and close them anymore. This can be embarrassing if it's on your pants zipper or if it's on a backpack and all of your things fall out. However, there are several ways of fixing a separated zipper. You can either try to fix the slider itself or realign the zipper by taking it apart and putting it back together. One of these methods is likely to fix the majority of zippers that have separated. [Edit]Reducing the Opening On the Zipper Slider - Inspect the slider on the zipper. Many times when the sides of a zipper separate and won't go back together as you pull the slider, it's because the slider itself is damaged. When you use a zipper often, the slider opening will begin to stretch open a bit. Inspect both ends of the zipper to determine if they have the same opening size. If one end looks wider than the other, then this may be why your zipper failed.[1]
- As the opening increases in size, it puts less pressure on the tracts of the zipper, allowing them to stay separated.
- Inspect the rest of the zipper and fix any problems that are apparent. For instance, straighten out any bent zipper teeth that you see. If there are tears in the fabric of the zipper, mend them.
- In some cases, bent teeth on a zipper will cause a zipper to separate. If the zipper teeth are metal, you can use a pair of pliers to straighten them out. If the teeth are plastic, gently try to straighten them with your fingers, as pliers could easily break them off.
- Squeeze the opening on the slider to reduce its size. Squeeze the slider on the top and bottom with your fingers or a pair of pliers. This will make the opening inside the slider the correct size once again.[2]
- On one end of the slider there is a middle piece that won't let you squeeze it. On the other end there is no middle piece. That is the side that gets opened and needs to be squeezed back together.
- Don't squeeze the slider too strongly though, as you don't want to make the gap smaller than it should be. You will know the gap is too small if it becomes difficult to pull up and down the zipper slider along the tracks.
- Check the zipper. Once you've reshaped the slider, move it up and down the zipper. If it is properly fixed, the slider should go back to opening and closing the zipper right away.
- If the zipper still doesn't work, either squeeze the slider more or try another solution.[3]
[Edit]Removing and Reinserting the Slider - Assess whether the slider needs to be realigned. If you have tried to move the zipper up and down, force the zipper sides together, and reduce the opening on the slider, the next thing to try is starting from scratch. If you can see the stops at the top of the zipper and they are metal, taking off the slider and realigning the zipper is possible.[4]
- The stops at the top of the zipper are small pieces of metal that are shaped a bit differently from the teeth on the zipper. They are not big pieces and they look similar to teeth but they are slightly larger and are positioned at the very end of each side of teeth.
- If the stops are plastic, you won't be able to take them off and put them back off without breaking them, so you can't use this method.
- Remove the top stops. Get a pair of small-tipped pliers and gently open up the stop. The stop it shaped like a "u," so you simply need to open up the side of the stop that is hooked onto the tape of the zipper. Once it is just slightly opened, you can wiggle it and unhook it from the tape.[5]
- It's important to be gentle with the stop and don't cut it or bend it until it breaks. You need to keep it intact.
- Keep the top stops and put them somewhere safe, as you'll need to use them again.
- Pull the slider up and off the zipper. Once the tops stops are removed, you will be able to easily pull the slider off the end of the zipper. Taking it off will allow you fix the tracks and then get the slider back in line.[6]
- Push the teeth of the zipper together. Start at the bottom of the zipper, the opposite end from where you took off the slider. Push the teeth of the zipper together, making sure that the teeth from the left and right sides alternate.[7]
- Put the zipper on top of a hard surface. As you work your way up the zipper, press down on the teeth to pop them into place.
- It is important that the teeth are perfectly lined up. Make sure that once you get to the top of the zipper that you don't have extra teeth on one side. This would mean that the teeth are not lined up.
- Reinsert the slider onto the top of the zipper. Once you have realigned the teeth, stick the bottom of the slider back onto the top of the tracks. Insert one track into the bottom of the slider, which is the end without a piece of metal separating the two sides. Then insert the other track.
- You will know each side is inserted when several teeth have gone up into the slider and the track won't go any further.
- It's easiest to insert one side and then the other. Putting them both in at once doesn't typically work.
- Run the slider up and down to check your work. Pull the slider down a few inches to make sure that it is on track. Move it up and down a bit to make sure it opens and closes the zipper correctly.[8]
- Be sure not to pull the slider all the way back up to the top, as it will slide off of the tracks again without the top stops in place.
- Reapply the top stops. Once the zipper is working once again, put the top stops back in place. Position them in the spots where they were originally installed. Squeeze the ends of the stops with your pliers until they grip the zipper tape once again.[9]
- Wiggle each stop after you reinstall it to ensure that it is securely in place.
- Just because you have a broken zipper, that doesn't mean that your piece of clothing or bag is broken forever. If you can't get the sides back together, you can always replace the zipper altogether.
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