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  2. Sailors' superstitions - Wikipedia

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    Sailors believed that certain symbols and talismans would help them in facing certain events in life; they thought that those symbols would attract good luck or bad luck in the worst of the cases: Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused ...

  3. Stop Making These Mistakes When Thawing Out Frozen Food - AOL

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    1. Letting Meat Sit on the Countertop. Allowing raw meat to slowly defrost at room temperature can be a serious health hazard. As the food begins to warm up, harmful bacteria can rapidly multiply ...

  4. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck [1]; A bird or flock of birds going from left to right () [citation needed]Certain numbers: The number 4.Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the word for "death".

  5. The Cold Water Method Is an Easy Way to Defrost Meat Safely

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    Learn how to defrost meat in an hour or as little as 10 minutes. We'll show you how to properly defrost any protein, whether it's steak or chicken.

  6. Study Shows Quicker Method For Thawing Frozen Meat - AOL

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    Janet S. Eastridge M.D. and Brian C. Bowker worked with over 200 one-inch thick beef strip loin steaks and defrosting the meat in a refrigerator at 37-40 degrees Fahrenheit, a 68 degree ...

  7. Frozen food - Wikipedia

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    Large ice crystals can also puncture the walls of the cells of the food product which will cause a degradation of the texture of the product as well as the loss of its natural juices during thawing. [27] That is why there will be a qualitative difference observed between food products frozen by ventilated mechanical freezing, non-ventilated ...

  8. 25 Kitchen Mistakes You're Probably Still Making - AOL

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    Even if you fancy yourself a foodie and love to imagine yourself whipping up feasts for friends and family, you may be committing kitchen sins big and small, from over-salting to using the wrong ...

  9. Spilling water for luck - Wikipedia

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    Spilling water for luck is a folk custom in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and other nearby countries. [1] [2] [3] According to folk belief, spilling water behind the person who goes on a journey, or to do a job, will bring good luck, and is done so that the travel or the job will end happily.