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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Love the spoon tip for hands and flour for ant-fry mess great top ten ! LOVE IT
Thanks for the tips. I didn’t know that about cottage cheese (off to the fridge to flip it)
#9 is news to me! My tip is to put your onion in the freezer for 10 minutes before chopping, I swear you won’t tear up 🙂
Great post, Im going to try the salt in the milk.
I’m definitely going to have to try #4. Thanks for the tips.
Hey, thanks!
I didn’t know about the cottage cheese tip. Great! Gonna go turn mine upside down right now! lol
Nice tips. Haven’t heard many of them before.
October 17-I love cottage cheese and it never occurred to me to put it away in the frig upside down. You may be sure I will from now on!
October 16- My husband used to be a potato farmer, retired now. I have never heard that an apple in the bag with the potatoes will keep them from budding. He always has to bud in the late winter. -Maybe not this year!-Thank you.
October 14-‘When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the eggs from cracking.’- This is a dandy hint. Often, when I boil eggs, I notice some of the white comes out from a crack and ruins the look of a boiled egg. Thanks for this useful tip.
Some great tips here. I can’t tell you how many times #2 would have been helpful to me!
Trying the apple in the potato bag as I type!
Ohhh, I am going to try the stainless steel spoon trick to get the smell of garlic off of my hands. I hate that smell.
Storing the cottage cheese upside down does seem to help!