The title is a metaphor. The post is not about cooking :) It will be about polls, which, as it turned out, many got it.
In general, maybe a button accordion, but I would venture to express my vision of how to save the polls and make them less intrusive.
Since polls are not full-fledged texts that are interesting to read, including them — polls — into a common habrant, I think, is not logical. ')
It is better to allocate for them a place on the main page on the right. Above or below the tag cloud. Broadcast there one of the highest-rated survey, and under it to put a link like "Before the hell polls," which will lead to the polls page.
Something like this. I think a very practical solution.