mmm, mustard is "easy" the way truffles are "easy." putting the ingredients together into a paste you can put on a sandwich is super simple. The trick with mustard is that the temperature you soak it at will radically effect the spicyness of the result. Unless you take steps, you end up with "fuck you hot" mustard, not grey poupon. Still, we've done it a few times and likely will again. Hank has the lowdown.

I'm not entirely sold on this list because they seem to consider "easy" to be "not technically challenging" OR "not labor-intensive" while I'd consider "easy" to be "not technically challenging or labor-intenstive." Fuck yeah, buying hummus is stupid. But as someone who has been making cake from scratch since I was 11, buying all the dry ingredients mixed together in a box from Betty Crocker doesn't really hurt you. And things like vanilla ice cream aren't that tough to execute at home, but it's stupid simple to get great results if you're a creamery and fiddly as fuck if you're going to have to clear out eight Healthy Choice frozen entrees to have somewhere to set the stuff. That they don't really care about your vanilla extract or vanilla bean makes me doubt their intentions.