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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These are great tips. Love these types of post. We could all use the tips or reminders.
#2 does not work. Cooks Illustrated did a big test on this a few years back. The potato does not absorb the salt. Once you’ve oversalted the soup, it’s pretty much going to stay salty. The only way to possibly salvage it is to try to mask the flavor with something else, like lemon juice, or doubling the recipe to dilute the salt.
This tip keeps getting passed around as gospel but it does not work.
Wow, very helpful!!!!
Great tips!
I have been cooking for over 30 years but didn’t know about # 2.
Great tip. Thanks.
What makes the difference with the cottage cheese container, how do you know if its upside down or not. I mean what would make the difference besides the writing on the outside. LOL the top could be the bottom and vice versa….
Awesome, I had no idea!
Im going to try the apple in with the potatoes thing! I always buy bags that are too big for 2 of us to go through in a hurry,always get sprouty ones!
great tips tammi!
These are all really great tips! I didn’t really know salt had so many additional uses to keep stuff fresh. I knew that in mass quantities it worked as a preservative, but I didn’t realize just a pinch would do. Great post thanks for sharing
Going to go put a pinch of salt in my empty plastic containers..I hate stinky plastic containers.
thanks for the tips
Awesome Tips! Love #5 will have to try that
Thanks for sharing! And I thought I knew it all! lol
I’m printing these out for the fridge. 🙂 Thanks Tammi xoxox
Cool! I’ve done the potato one once when I oversalted a dish. The cottage cheese one is weird! Thanks.