10 clever uses for toothpicks
Fake-bake a potato
If you’d love a baked potato for dinner, but don’t have enough time to let the oven do its thing, microwave it instead. But in order to cook it evenly, you’ll need four toothpicks. Stick them into one side, creating a “potato stand” so that the spud sits up off the counter. Then plop it in the microwave and cook for about five minutes (up to seven minutes for a monster potato). Boom! Piping-hot potato “baked” evenly throughout.