Although kitchen scissors are meant for food, they open packaging just as well as normal scissors. This is very helpful in the kitchen when your hands are slippery or a package doesn't tear properly. You can also cut off ties without stopping to undo them. Kitchen scissors are handy for vacuum-sealed packaging that can't be torn apart by hand. Kitchen shears have plier-like teeth between the handle grips. Place a plastic cap, such as the one on your bottle of hot sauce, between the handles. Set the bottle on the table so you don't drop it. Hold the scissors level with the table, then twist until the seal breaks. To remove large lids, angle the scissors upwards and away from your body. Then grip the lid between the handles and twist. You don't need to fish around for a bottle opener. Place the bottle cap between the handles and squeeze them closed. The scissors should point upwards and away from your body. Lift them until the cap pops off. Scissors make snipping off a piece of string or twine easy. Tie the twine around a bag or container to secure its contents. Twine is also used for trussing chickens and turkeys, which makes them cook evenly.
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One-sentence summary -- Snip open sealed packages. Twist off plastic bottle lids with scissor grips. Pop off metal bottle caps with the scissor handles. Cut twine for wrapping food.

Although many fruits are very brightly colored, their juices do not always make for good food dye. Many citrus fruits, for example, have highly translucent juices (such as oranges and lemons), which do not stain other foods very effectively. Berries, on the other hand, are very effective for coloring foods. To figure out which fruits will work best for your purposes, squeeze or blend fruits and pour the juice into a clear glass. Hold the glass up to the light; the less light that passes through, the better the juice will work as a food dye. For red or pink coloring, raspberries and cherries are good options; strawberries produce a lighter, more pastel shade of pink. For blue or purple, try blackberries or blueberries. Unlike with boiling vegetables to leach out their color, fruit juice food coloring is made of the fruit itself. For berries, stick them in a food processor or blender in order to liquefy them for your dye. For hand fruits, you can use a juicer instead (but again, most of these types of fruits don't make good dyes). You can start with either fresh or frozen fruit if you are blending it, but fruits must be fresh in order to juice them effectively. Be sure to remove any pits, large seeds, or inedible peels before tossing fruit into the blender; these can ruin your machine and will not help your food dye production efforts. Add a very small amount of water to the fruit if you are using a food processor in order to allow the fruit to adequately liquefy. Any time you blend or juice fruits, tiny seeds, skins, or other fibers (pulp) can end up in the juice. In order to preserve the consistency of the food you wish to dye, remove these elements from the juice by passing it through a mesh sieve (with very small holes) or a cheesecloth. Straining is essential for maintaining consistency and smoothness in your dyes. However, if you are going for a less even look, you can choose not to strain the fruit juice (so long as there are no seeds in it!). Very finely-blended berries will be impossible to strain completely and will most likely end up with tiny flecks of skin and fibers in them; if this is not acceptable, consider juicing or boiling instead. Don't use a sieve or strainer with mesh that is large enough for seeds and fibers to pass through. Test-strain a small portion of your juice to make sure your mesh is effective. In some cases, the strained juice itself will be sufficient as a food dye. However, you can increase the intensity of the color by cooking off some of the water contained in the juice. Pour the juice into a small saucepan and cook it over medium heat until it becomes the consistency of a thick paste. This process results in a highly concentrated dye, which will have dense flavor, especially if it is made from berries. Be sure to use it sparingly to avoid flavor contamination. Skip this if you are going for a lighter, more pastel coloring.
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One-sentence summary -- Choose fruits with opaque juices. Juice or blend the fruit. Strain the juice. Reduce the juice.

This method covers Word 2007 or later on a Windows, and Word 2011 or later on a Mac. If you don't know your version number, here's an easy test: if there's a "ribbon menu" of icons above your open document, follow these instructions. If there's no ribbon menu skip to the next method instead. If you only see a row of tabs labeled "Home," "Layout," etc., click on one of these tabs to expand the ribbon menu. Click the Text Box button on the ribbon menu. This is under the Insert or Home tabs, depending on your version of Word. Click on the text box and type in the text you'd like to rotate. Notice that clicking on the text box makes a border appear. Look for a line that extends above the border of the text box, ending in a circle. Click and hold this circle. Move your cursor while holding down on the circle to rotate the text box. After rotating, when you click the box to edit the text, it may snap back to the normal orientation. This is just to make it easier for you to see what you're doing. It should return to the position your chose after you click outside the box. Hold down Shift while rotating to limit the possible positions. This makes it easier to rotate to even 45 or 30 angles, and to make parallel text boxes. If you're having trouble achieving the look you want, try rotating using menu commands instead: Double-click the text box to open the Format ribbon menu, or select the Format tab. Click the Text Direction button in the ribbon menu. In some versions this is a small, unlabeled button with an image of vertical text. Select one of the options from the drop-down menu.
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Check your version of Word. Insert a text box. Type in the text box. Click the circle above the text box. Drag to rotate the box. Hold Shift for cleaner rotating. Use menu options instead.