21 Cooking Hacks That Will Help Kitchen Amateurs Turn Themselves into Master Cooks

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.

#21 Potato flowers can be easily made using an apple cutter