Helpful Kitchen Tips and Tricks
looking for some genius helpful kitchen tips and tricks? I tried a number of these, they work like a charm!
Helpful Kitchen Tips and Tricks
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1. For smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, rub them on a stainless steel spoon. The steel will absorb the odor.
2. Over-salt a pot of soup? Drop in a peeled potato, it will absorb the excess salt.
3. Not sure if your eggs are fresh? Place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.
4. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking.
5. To keep potatoes from budding in the bag, put an apple in with them.
6. Making soup, sauce, or a casserole that is too fatty or greasy? drop in an ice cube. The ice will attract the fat, which you can then scoop out. Or, sweep a piece of bread over the top of the liquid – the oil will be attracted to the bread!
7. If your milk always goes bad before you can finish it, add a pinch of salt to the carton when you first open it, It’ll stay fresh days longer.
8. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky.
9. Cottage cheese will remain fresher for longer, if you store it upside down in the refrigerator.
10. To prevent fat from splattering when frying sausage or bacon, try flouring them lightly.
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Thank you for the awesome tips.
Over-salt a pot of soup? Drop in a peeled potato, it will absorb the excess salt. Never heard this before: Wonder if this works for canned soups that have way to much salt for me? Can’t hurt to give it a try. Thanks for the tip
I’m absolutely going to be using the apple in the potato bag trick! And do you know if using a potato to fix over-salting would work in a crockpot? I don’t make many soups, but I’ve oversalted my crockpot more times than I care to say…
definitely will start doing #5 I never seem to be able to stop them from sprouting!
Great tips Thx Tammi
I knew about #1 and it works like a charm but lots of the others are new info for me. Definitely going to try the ice cube to get fat out of soup, that layer always yucks me out!
these are really good tips, have they all been tested. I’d be rubbing my hands on a spoon, I cook with garlic a lot.
The trick about flouring the bacon before frying is one I’ve never heard- must try! I love bacon but hate the mess it makes when frying.
I am so excited about tip #5. We love potatoes but always avoided buying big bags of it because we never finish them in time! I can’t wait to use the tip. Thanks for sharing!!
#9 is a good one!!!
I knew lots of those! The apple in the potato bag really does work!
A pinch of salt seems to solve a lot of problems! These are great tips. I’ll have to try the potato one and mix it with apple.