From cleaning the microwave in record time to making the most of your hard earned bacon,
we look at 9 amazing kitchen hacks. 9.
Rice, More Nice • Love rice but hate the calories?
Science has found the answer and no it isn’t a drug habit so debilitating you forget about
the rice.
• Well science might have saved the day, yet again.
Scientists have discovered a way to make your sexy rice dish lower in calories.
your call.
First you cook your white rice like you normally would but including some coconut oil to the
pot too.
Then once it’s cooked, you let it cool and chill in the fridge for at least 12 hours.
That part if mandatory because the coconut oil is busy converting the rice’s starch
into a less fatty format.
• It takes some planning but your waistline will thank you.
Or you can eat an extra serving of Ben & Jerrys without guilt; Yeah science, bitch!
8.
Smoked • This one is for all you pyromaniacs out
there.
Homemade smoked tuna using nothing but canned tuna, a lighter and toilet paper.
That’s right, you’re gonna McGyver that shit.
• This is an old Israeli army trick for when they had to come up with interesting
ways of preparing their rations.
You’ll need to use tuna in oil for this.
If you use spring water tuna, everything is going to get soggy and gross.
You take the lid off the tuna and without draining away any of the oil, lay about three
pieces of toilet paper against the tuna, letting it soak up some oil.
Then you light that bad boy up on all sides.
• It should take about 25 minutes to burn through, then you just remove the scorched
paper and blow away any leftover ash.
Why would anyone buy smoked tuna when you can make your own with fire?!
7.
Waffling On • Is your waffle iron gathering dust next
to the blender you swore you were gonna use to get healthy?
Yeah, I know your MO.
• But waffle irons are handier than you realise.
You make hash browns in that bad boy and cook some kick ass bacon.
Omelets are also delicious in a waffle maker, so long as you remember to oil that baby up.
But it’s not just breakfast foods; oh no.
You can make some epic desserts in there too, like waffle cookies.
• So don’t let your waffle iron go to waste, make an entire breakfast feast.
Or better yet, make briner; breakfast for dinner.
Every meal should come with pancakes and maple syrup.
6.
Lazy Susan • Everybody has that condiment domain in
their fridge; the messy spot where you have to yank out ten types of mustard to get to
the single thing you actually need.
• Instead of pulling out everything, you can swivel your way to glory by strategically
placing a lazy Susan in your pantry or fridge.
Then instead of the usual traffic jam of condiments, it’s easy access with swivel-y goodness.
• The only question left is, who is Susan and if she’s so lazy, why is she so damn
useful?
Think about it.
5.
Nice Ice • Wanna be the Walter White of ice?
While I can’t offer you the formula for the Heisenberg shit but I can fill you in
on how to make clear ice cubes.
• You know how your run-of-the-mill ice cubes are as cloudy as the Simpsons intro?
Well not anymore.
If you boil the water before you freeze it, you get nifty clear ice cubes.
This works best with filtered water, especially for the fans in Flint, Michigan.
• Let it cool before you put it into your ice tray and then chuck it in the freezer
and Bob’s your uncle, or boyfriend or whatever.
No more cloudy ice cubes for you.
4.
Spoon Me • Trying to avoid making a mess in the kitchen?
Aren’t we all…
• When you’re boiling a shit-tonne of water, (shit-tonne being the technical term)
try laying a wooden spoon over the top of the saucepan.
The bubbles will reach the wooden spoon and be sent back into the hell from whence it
came.
Some people maintain that there are too many bubbles but if it’s a big-ass pot you’re
boiling, lay two wooden spoons on there like train tracks.
• Word to the wise though, if your wooden utensil is a hunk of crap, it might warp slightly
because of the moisture, so best keep an eye out for that.
And voila!
No more mess when you walk away from your boiling pasta
to play on your phone.
3.
Cakes are Burning • Suck at baking cakes?
Burnt the top and then hidden it with icing?
We’ve all been there.
But stress less; here’s the remedy to your unevenly cooked cake.
• When the top of your cake is starting to burn, but the middle is still uncooked
and gooey; put a piece of baking paper over the top of your cake when it begins to brown
so that the heat cooks the innards instead of messing up Nanna’s birthday cake.
• Be sure to keep an eye on your oven, unless you wanna see an oven fire.
Though I wish ovens knew how to prioritise and think for themselves.
But then they’d rise up and it’d be Skynet all over again.
2.
Onion Stank • Have you been meal prepping like a champ?
Chances are you’ve contracted a symptom I like to call stanky-hands.
• If you love cooking with onion and garlic, you’ve definitely encountered stanky-hands
before and most likely you’ve doused yourself in smelly soaps and scrubbed til kingdom come.
But it doesn’t have to be that way, man.
All you have to do is rub your hands on your stainless steel sink because it’ll neutralize
those rank odours.
• Hell you can even buy a bar of stainless steel for this purpose, but that seems a bit
ridiculous since the stuff is laying around the house not doing anything in your sink
already.
So remember; it rubs the hands on the sink or else it gets the…never mind.
1.
Bacon-y Goodness • Bacon is life.
If you ever see an angry vegan, they’re probs angry because they remembered that they
miss bacon.
And cheese.
And yoghurt.
Good god, how do they live?!
• One hack for making the most of your bacon-y goodness is to run your bacon under cold water
before you cook in order to reduce shrinkage by up to 50%!
So it’s like the opposite of what happens if you dunk your junk in cold water.
• Also, if you want your bacon picture perfect, then bake that bacon.
You can make some big ass batches that way.
Which the only way bacon should be made.
Oh bacon, you’re ba-kin’ me crazy.
Oh, that was bad, so bad.