21 Cooking Hacks That Will Help Kitchen Amateurs Turn Themselves into Master Cooks
7:43 AM EST, November 19, 2022, updated: 1:59 AM EST, November 20, 2022
You don’t have to spend long hours in the kitchen to conjure up delicious dishes. Sometimes just a couple of simple hacks is enough to become a professional cook!
#1 When you don’t have tortillas, lettuce or cabbage leaves can do just as well
#2 The egg slicer can be used to cut mushrooms, too
#3 If you want the breakfast to stay warm longer, put the plate with the food on the pot where you were boiling the eggs
#4 With this bottle you can easily seal your dumplings
#5 A secret trick how to make a tortilla sandwich. It’s all about the way you fold it
#6 How to squeeze a lemon
Pierce the fruit with a spike. The juice will flow out without any stones.
#7 Lumpy sugar?
Pour it into a container, add some orange peels and close it tight. After a few hours the lumps will be gone.
#8 Preventing avocado from going brown
Keep avocados in a sealed box together with a few onion rings in a refrigerator.
#9 Thanks to a spoon the ladle won’t fall into the soup anymore
#10 Warm white wine?
Add a few frozen grapes into the glass of your wine. After you drink the alcohol, you will end up with a few pieces of fruit tasting the wine.
#11 When you keep lemons in the fridge, make sure they are in a bowl of water
This is how they can stay fresh much longer.
#12 One coffee grinder in the kitchen?
You can use the grinder for pepper, too. If you don’t want to smells to mix, grind some rice in between.
#13 TicTac boxes are cut out to store spices
#14 Man-shaped molds can be used to bake reindeer-shaped cookies just as well
#15 How to bake a perfect zebra cake
The key to succeed here is pouring the cocoa layer and the vanilla layer alternately.
#16 If there is nothing at hand to tie to chicken’s legs, use bacon!
#17 To get perfectly round fried eggs, fry them inside onion rings
#18 Collect vegetable peels. You can recycle them cooking broth
#19 Radish leaves can be eaten
You can use them to make pesto or add them to a salad.
#20 Tasteless cauliflower?
Fry it on a pan where you have just fried bacon.