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There are a lot of reasons to peel potatoes — cheese fries, tater tots and potato salad, to name a few — but that doesn’t make the work of peeling them any less of a chore. It’s not that this kitchen task is hard, being that it doesn’t require even the slightest degree of culinary skill, it just takes a lot of time.

Turns out, it doesn’t have to be that way. A potato-peeling hero has surfaced on YouTube, and he’s taught the world how to peel an entire bag of potatoes in under 60 seconds. Not only does this trick save you a lot of time, it also looks like fun. Plus, this guy’s way of peeling potatoes lets you feel like a badass while feeding a crowd at the same time. What could be better?

Because it all happens so fast, here’s what you need to know: You will need is a power hose, a bucket, a drill and a cheap toilet bowl brush (though we’re pretty certain any type of brush — one that’s not related to the bathroom — would work too). A bag of potatoes and access to a water source are also essential, as is an outdoor space, because this task can get a little messy. Add the potatoes to a bucket. Attach the end of the toilet brush onto the drill. With the hose in one hand and the drill in the other, turn both on and attack those spuds.

Watch the video above to see this trick in action. Then, go make a mountain of potato salad, because it just got infinitely easier.

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From ice bars to underwater restaurants to Japanese sake houses where monkeys are waiters, we’ve seen a lot of gimmicky places to get a drink. However none so far have given us a headache just by reading about them until now. The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin opened a perfume-inspired cocktail bar on June 12, and it’s causing us to pause.

The bar, aptly named Fragrances, encourages patrons to select their cocktails based on matching scents. Fragrances currently offers a selection 15 cocktails, each corresponding to a different perfume. Designer perfumes from the likes of Giorgio Armani and Yves Saint Laurent sit beside respective liquors so that patrons may smell before they taste. “At Fragrances, we want our guests not only to enjoy their drinks, but to experience them,” bar manager Arnd Heissen told The Drinks Business.

Cocktails are as elaborate as the setup. The Earl Grey and Cucumber, for example, consists of Earl Grey infused Don Julio Reposado, pink lady apple juice, jasmine tea and vanilla, honey and cucumber syrup. It was inspired by the Jo Malone fragrance. Heissen told Yahoo Food that there have been no sponsorhip deals between the perfume companies and the Ritz Berlin, and that the hotel does not sell any of the perfumes.

Non-alcoholic beverages, like the Messe de Minuit and Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom, are also available, as are fragrance-inspired bar snacks — whatever those might be.

We’re curious to see how Fragrances fares, since we’ve always followed the rule prohibiting scented candles on the dinner table. Perhaps we’ve been mistaken this whole time, though. For now, we’re going to sit back and watch from a distance, because we’re feeling all this perfume and cocktail talk right between the eyes, in a throbbing sort of way.

Typically we get headaches after we leave a bar — like, the next morning when we wake up and need a Bloody Mary injection and an egg sandwich to the face. But before we even enter? We’re not so sure we’re ready for that. Would you go to a perfume-inspired cocktail bar? What perfume…er… cocktail would you choose?

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Sometimes you want to get from A to B as quickly as possible—but what if you want to savor the journey? Well, Yahoo has been working on an algorithm that can plot the most beautiful route, for those days when time is less of a concern.

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If you are anything like me, every time when I get a new Android phone or tablet I would root it and flash my favorite custom ROM. That is where the fun starts for me personally owning Android device. Now the first Android Wear custom ROM is out; Gohma ROM is specifically made for the LG G Watch. As of … Continue reading

Do you as a parent or guardian feel that you should never have purchased that iPhone 5s or Samsung Galaxy S5 for your teen? After all, that smartphone virtually spelled the death of actual conversation in the household, as your teen became enamored with emojis and other kinds of virtual communication, even late into the night, with other humans. Well, some of the older folks are fighting back, so to speak, where the Board of Education in Kasuga, Japan, declared their intention to hold a curfew among junior high school students in the city so that they will not use their smartphones when the clock strikes 10 in the evening.

Working alongside local schools as well as parent-teacher associations, this particular board hopes that this initiative will be able to see students hand their smartphones over to adults between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but so far, there has been not punishments set just yet in case there is a cheeky violator here and there.

With ubiquitous Internet access increasing the difficulty for parents to supervise their children, there are other inherent risks involved, such as cyberbullying, private information leaks, potential blackmail due to the sharing of revealing and racy photos, as well as unintended consumption of pay media. Do you think that this particular smartphone curfew idea would work outside of Japan?

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