Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you 15 kitchen
hacks or food hacks. I've recently discovered a few new ones on TikTok and various other places.
And some of you will know that I love to find new hacks or tips or tricks that just make life
a little bit easier. And in today's video, there are definitely a few that are a little bit mind
blowing and that I know that I'm going to use in the future. So I hope you enjoy this video.
If you do, please give it a big like, and if you do like hacks, then please consider subscribing.
And with all that said, let's get into the video. Some of you guys will know that my husband, Matt,
is very sensitive to onions, and whenever he cooks, he wears these onion glasses. And the
other day, I showed that in A Day in the Life. And someone commented that if you wet a paper
towel and then put that next to where you're cutting the onion, it won't actually hurt your
eyes because this will be the closest water source rather than your eyes. So I thought
I would test it out. See if I can save Matt the trouble of wearing those very stylish glasses.
So just wet a paper towel here. I'm going to put it next to it and then chop up the onions.
I actually think this one kind of works. I'm getting the smell of the onions,
but my eyes aren't actually crying. So it might be one for you guys to try as well. I really wish
Matt was here so I could test that on him. This next hack is for all the coffee lovers
out there, especially as we come into spring and summer. If you like to drink ice coffee,
I just love this hack. So all you do is make some coffee and then
fill up your ice trays and freeze the coffee. And that way, when you do make ice coffee,
you're not actually watering it down with ice cubes. You're just using frozen coffee.
Hopefully, you could do a bit better than I just did. I spilled a little bit, but now I'm just
going to let the coffee cool down in the trays, and then I'm going to put it into my freezer.
So I wanted to show you a quick and easy way to cut herbs, and it is using a pizza cutter.
I actually use a pizza cutter to cut so many things like pancakes or toast or pastry.
It was especially easy as well when I had a baby in one arm to just cut toast like this.
But the weird thing is when it comes to pizza, I end up using scissors.
But anyway, I'll show you how I cut herbs. I've got sage,
thyme, and rosemary here. So let's just group it all together and then start slicing.
And now that I have got these herbs chopped up, I wanted to show you another hack.
If you buy fresh herbs, and then you noticed that they're going off in your fridge,
don't chuck them out. This is a really good way that you can save them
to cook with later. And this is a tip I stole from Jamie Oliver. So he would chop up the fresh herbs
and then put them into ice cube trays, and top them up with an olive oil. And then you can use
it, especially in things like roast potatoes or other dishes that you're going to make later on.
And while we're talking about keeping herbs fresher for longer, I wanted to show you
another hack to do just that. I've got some coriander here. We use this all the time on
top of curries and chilies. So I've just bunched it together, and it actually came with a little
elastic band around it. So all you want to do with your bunch is pop it into a little glass of water
and then put that into the fridge and it will stay fresher for longer.
And that hack also works really well for celery as well. So if you cut your celery into sticks
and then you can pop them into a glass of water and then they won't go floppy so quickly either.
And another hack is a very simple way to hull strawberries without actually wasting
too much of the strawberry. So you just need a straw for this hack, and all you do
is just push it through the strawberry and then the top comes straight off there. And then you
still have all of that strawberry to eat. And we actually eat a lot of strawberries in this
house. All the boys love them. So I went one step further and bought this actual strawberry huller
on Amazon. So, it's just like a little claw, and you just stick it into the strawberry, push,
and then you twist and then the top comes off and yeah, you don't lose hardly any strawberry.
Next hack, I actually saw on TikTok, and I thought I've got to try that for myself.
So it's basically shredding chicken, which I've steamed here,
with your whisk. And it looked so seamless that I wanted to give it a try.
Oh my goodness. I don't know who came up with this, but it worked so well. It's
just perfectly shredded chicken. Whereas I suppose if you put chicken into a blender
or something, it just wouldn't come out like this, but it works amazingly well.
This next hack is another one that I saw on TikTok.. I probably go on TikTok too much,
but it was basically a mom who was heating up a knife like this, and then she cuts a plastic bag
and then she had two separate plastic bags. And I thought, I need to try that out for myself.
So we're going to try it out together. So I'm going to heat this up all on my gas stove.
Oh my goodness. That hack worked so, so well. So I had one plastic bag, and then you saw what I did,
and now I have two separate plastic bags. So if you wanted smaller ones for like little snacks,
it was so easy. Make sure that you're really careful and don't heat it up too much because it
actually cut my cutting board as well. Because I did cut my cutting board, I think I'm going to try
heating up my scissors and then doing it that way. So let's see if it works.
It didn't actually work quite as well. There was a little hole in it.
So the knife is probably the way to do it. This next hack is a simple way to find out
if your eggs are fresh or not. So if you're like me, and you decant your eggs into your fridge,
and they don't have a date on them and you're not a hundred percent sure that it's sitting
there for ages, you can actually put them into some cold water. And if they're going off,
they will float, whereas if they're still fresh, they will sink to the bottom.
So, this egg's use by date isn't actually for another week. So it has sunk to the bottom,
but if you're ever unsure and then it starts to float, then you know that it's probably going off.
Next up, I'm going to show you a very simple way to separate your egg yolk to your egg whites,
but it is just using an old plastic bottle like this. You just kind of push the air out
and then the egg yolks should go right up into the bottle. Or if you're really skilled, you may
also be able to do this with just your hands. This next hack is a way to get the perfect
shaped potato wedges are using your apple cutter. I'm going to test it out today
on this potato. So I'm actually just going to cut the tiny bit off the end
to try and make it a little bit flat so that I can then push this down.
So that actually did work really well. You do have to give it a bit of oomph, but it did cut
them into the perfect shapes that I think it would work really well on sweet potato wedges as well.
This next hack is so, so simple, but I didn't actually discover it until last year.
So, you know when you buy tinfoil or baking paper and whenever you're getting some out,
it folds out of the box? Well, there are actually little tabs on the side that you
need to push in to hold the roll in place. And once you do that, you won't have that problem.
This next hack might be something that you already do, but I find the simplest way to peel
a garlic clove is to cut a tiny bit off the end and then squish it down with the side of
a knife and then the skin just falls off of it. This next hack I recently shared on my Instagram
account and so many people went crazy for it. It's the most simple thing ever. So
basically the holes on your pot handles are not just for hanging up your pots.
You can also use it to hold your mixing spoons. So, say you're making pasta or something like
that. You can actually stick your wooden food into the pot handle and then it can be dripping back
into the pot. So that's it for this video. I really hope you enjoyed it. Let you know in
the comments below which one was your favorite, and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.