In this episode, easy cooking hacks!
So with this hack I'm gonna teach you how
to peel a garlic with ease. Okay I wish I'd learned this earlier
because I had to cook with a lot of garlic not that long ago
but anyway, cut the bottom of the garlic.
Then you want to put it on a plate, face down
so now I'm gonna put the garlic in the microwave for one minute.
Okay so all you have to do now is grab
your garlic and squeeze the clove out of the skin.
Hot hot hot!
It all comes out so easy. Oh my god I can't believe how easy this is,
this is ridiculous!
Look at that!
Now you don't have to spend so long trying to peel all the skin off
the garlic you can just do that guys.
Putting your garlic in the microwave for
about a minute it's gonna cook your garlic a little bit so if you don't want
it so cooked put it in there for less, maybe 25 seconds can work for you?
Depending on your microwave, I'm not sure but give it a shot it is a really simple
way to peel your garlic.
A really quick and easy way to steam your vegetables is
to put it in a microwavable ziploc bag like this.
Oops not like that but never mind.
Next I'm gonna put butter in there
this is optional you don't have to put butter in there,
I want to do it because it gives it more flavour.
Sseal the bag but do not seal all the way you need to leave a little bit of a gap
and what this gap does it allows the steam to escape because you do not want
this exploding inside your microwave.
So now I've got my vegetables ready to go into the microwave.
Now all you have to do is put it in there for about 3 to 5 minutes.
Alright so all I have to do now is pour it in the bowl.
You can see my vegetables are nicely steamed.
I'm going to show you how soft it is, see,
my fork went right through it, it's really really soft.
Mmm it's like perfectly cooked too, it's not too soft,
and it's not too hard.
So when you overcook vegetables it usually loses its nutrition.
But this is perfect.
A great easy way to steam your vegetables, wah lah!
Actually it's viola, I don't know why I said wah lah!
Wah lah wah lah bing bang!
Now if you don't have a pair of tongs at home,
I'm going to teach you how to make your own tongs.
As you can see I've got my binder clip and spoons.
All you need to do is thread your spoon into the hole of
the binder clip like that. So in the binder clip you will see a little edgy
thing right here. Hook the end of the spoon under the binder clip edge right
here. I'm gonna do the same on the other side.
And that is all there is to it.
Now I've got myself a pair of tongs.
Quite clever right?
Kiap it!
Now here's a simple way to poach your eggs.
All you have to do is get a cup and
fill it with hot water then you want to get some white vinegar and then you just
want to put a sprinkle of salt in there.
So now to add the egg.
You have to cover it.
Put it in the microwave for about 50 seconds.
Alright egg is done let's get that out!
So now to test how runny the yolk is look at that,
it is nice and runny just how a poached egg should be!
Beautiful and that's how you cook a poached egg in 50 seconds!
So say you've got some food that you want to save for another day.
A great way to keep it fresh is to keep it vacuum sealed so I'm going
to teach you a way to kind of semi vacuum seal your fruits or your food so
I just want to seal it. Get a straw and poke the straw through the end that I
didn't seal and then suck the air out of the straw. Once you've got all the air
out, take the straw and quickly seal the rest of the bag up.
So as you can see it's not like really really tight
but that's why I said semi vacuum seal your food.
And that should keep your food fresher for longer.
So previously before I showed you how to cut open a bell pepper easily.
So I recently learned how to do it another way so I'm gonna teach
you how to do it now. Turn it upside down, just simply cut down like that now
obviously you don't want to get the seeds because seeds are just not nice.
Okay so, same thing again and I'm gonna cut.
One more here.
So there you go I've successfully removed all the seeds from my bell pepper
And now I've got these lovely pieces right here.
There you go, another way to cut a bell pepper.
So with this next hack I'm gonna teach you how to prevent your potatoes from oxidizing
too fast. Now if you're not ready to cook a potato straight away, it's okay you can
cut it up and prepare..
and prepare it and it'll be totally fine later on.
All you need to do is get some cold water. Put your cut potatoes into
the cold water and this will prevent it from oxidizing later. So when you're
ready to cook your potatoes, just drain the water and you're good to go!
Easy peasy.
A really cute way to make your pancakes
is to actually make them in lovely little shapes. I've got my pancake mix
right here, I've got my cookie cutters and my pan ready to go. So gonna put my
butter in the pan. Whilst we wait for the butter to melt I'm gonna teach you
another trick. Now if your pan has this hole here, you can put your ladle in
there like that! Very handy so I'm gonna place my cookie
cutters inside the tray like this and then pour my pancake mixture into the
cookie cutters. Usually pancake mixtures have self raising flour in it so it's
going to raise so you don't want to fill this up to the brim.
So you can see my pancakes are bubbling right? So that means it's pretty much ready to flip over.
It's bloody hot!
Okay ready set and...
Yes! Beautiful!
There you go!
Some lovely shaped pancakes for you
to enjoy or your kids to enjoy. Pretty cute right and you can put like little
decorations on there if you want if you want to get really creative and if
you've got the time why not go cray-cray? Okay so this is what your pancakes will
look like if you use cookie cutters.
Pretty cool right?
Yas and it makes it nice and fun to eat.
Mmm... Good.
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