Whether you’re a workaholic who barely has time to open the fridge
or a busy stay at home mom,
this kitchen hacks will make your life easier.
This is 33 Kitchen Tricks & Food Hack That Are Borderline Genius
1. Grate Cold Butter
Your stick of butter has to be close to frozen for it to work
and you must work fast to keep it from melting.
If you don’t chill the ingredients
and the scones will turn out dense.
The grated butter is perfect for adding to flour
before baking biscuits, scones, muffins etc.
2. Pop up the avocado steam to see if it is ripe or not.
Simply pop up the little button on your avocado
and check the color underneath it.
If it’s yellow or green, you’re good to go.
If it’s brown, the avocado is too ripe.
If it doesn’t come off easily, it’s not ripe enough.
To get the avocado pit out,
simply cut to the tip and pull it off.
And while you’re at it, slice it up in the shell,
and use a spoon to scoop out your perfectly cut pieces.
If you need to store them,
use lemon slices to keep them from going brown.
3. When you cracked your egg
sometimes the egg shell will break off into small pieces.
If you don’t have anything else at the moment
use one of the egg shell halves to scoop it out.
Or… you could also use your finger to fish out the eggshels
by wetting your finger first.
4. Use a pizza cutter to cut up ingredients into very small pieces.
If the closest you get to making homemade pizza is ordering from the pizza place next to your home,
then your pizza cutter probably needs some love.
Use it when you really need some ingredients
to be really, really small like cut up basil.
5. Test Egg Freshness With Water.
Fill a bowl with enough cold water
and then place the eggs in the water.
The egg on the left is very fresh
the one in the middle is about a week old,
and the one on the right is nearly three weeks old.
Although this trick is handy, please don’t march to your grocery store
and request for a bowl of water before buying your eggs.
6. Use dental floss to cut soft foods.
There’ll be no mess, no knife sticking events and no hassle.
Slide the floss under a rolled cake or bread and pull both ends up.
For cheese, hold both ends across the ledge, tighten and cut across it.
7. Easy Way To Peel An Orange
With a few clever cut of a knife, you can peel an orange
and eat it without juice dripping all over your hands.
Here’s how you do it.
First, cut the top of the orange
and then cut the bottom part as well.
Slit the side part of the orange just a little until the skin is parted.
Open it up and enjoy your orange in strip.
8. Mini Bacon Egg Cups
Yep, bite sized bacon and egg awesomeness
Here’s the instruction:
Spray non stick spray in 12 muffin tins.
Wrap each piece of bacon along the sides of each muffin cup.
Fill each bacon lined muffin cup 3/4 of the way with the egg mixture.
Bake for 30-35 minutes, until the egg cups are golden brown
and use a knife to scoop them out of the tins.
9. Remove strawberry stem with a straw.
A strawberry stem can’t be that hard to remove
but a clean cut way to vanish it is by using a straw.
Insert the straw from the bottom ,
push it up and the stem will be removed all the way.
10. Freeze leftover sauces in ice cube trays.
The cubes can be reheated later when you need a quick sauce.
11. Lay wooden spoon on the pot to prevent the water from boiling over
while you’re cooking pasta.
12. Thumprint for even cooking
Burger patties may cook round and swell
if you put it straight into the cooking pan.
Put your thumbprint in the middle of the patty before cooking
and the indentation will make sure that it will cook evenly
13. Keep apple slices fresh with honey and water
When fleshy fruits like apples are cut open and exposed to the air,
their insides will often turn brown within minutes as a result of the oxidation process.
However, with natural ingredients like honey and water
you can prevent your fruit from turning brown.
First Place your sliced fruit into a medium-sized bowl.
Mix together 1 tbs. of honey and 1 cup of slightly warm water.
Pour the honey and water mixture over the fruit.
Allow the fruit slices to soak in the honey and water mixture for 30 seconds.
Your fruit slices will now appear bright and fresh-looking for up to 8 hours.
14. Peel garlic the easy way
This is not the job I like to sign up for but this technique looks too much fun to pass up.
Start with a whole garlic bulb
and then use a bowl or the palm of your hand to break apart the bulb of garlic.
After it look like this,
Put the garlic cloves in a seal-able container and shake.
Dump everything out and separate the cloves from the skins
and now you have peeled garlic that's ready to use!
15. Apple cutter to cut potatoes into wedges
If you thought an apple slicer was just for slicing apples,
you thought wrong.
This food hack will save you time
and cut down on the washing up too.
To make your potato wedges, you don't even have to peel your potatoes
or if you do, you'll make chips!
Pop your potatoes onto a wooden board,
grab your apple slicer, press down firmly and ta-dah! You’ve got potato wedges.
This hack works best on small or medium-sized potatoes,
but if you only have larger spuds you can cut them in half before you start.
16. If you crack eggs on a flat surface
it will open more cleanly instead of on the edge of a bowl.
17. When reheating leftovers,
leave a circle in the middle of your food. It'll heat much more evenly!
18. Wrap banana stems in cling wrap to keep them fresh longer.
Simply cut a small piece of clear plastic wrap about the size of the palm of your hand
and then wrap the banana steam with it.
19. Keep potatoes from budding
Place an apple in with your potatoes to keep them from sprouting.
The reason is because Apples produce ethylene gas
which keeps the potato from sprouting.
20. Keep Your Cutting Board From Sliding
Sharp knives is not a good combination
with cutting board that slide all over the counter.
Use a wet paper towel under your board to keep it in its place.
21. Keep your salad fresh through a paper towel.
Keep your salad fresh by strain the remaining water,
put the salad in a bowl, top it with a paper towel to absorb it s moisture,
then cover the whole thing with cling wrap.
22. DIY Travel Cup
This stuff works like magic!
All you need to do is stretch a piece of Press'n Seal over the open part of the cup and voila!
Your own DIY travel mug.
23. How to Eat a Watermelon the right way.
First turn the watermelon over to the chopping board.
Then use knives to cut strip about an inch wide.
Turn it around and do the exact the same thing over again.
And there we have it… Simple and ready to serve.
24. DIY a frozen yogurt pops.
First picked up a four-pack of strawberry yogurt singles,
poked in the four popsicle sticks and popped them in the freezer.
When you are ready to eat,
open the seal through the stick,
ran one under hot tap water for about 10 seconds,
slipped off the plastic cup and snack time is ON!
25. Freeze grapes for ice cubes alternatives for wine
Do you like your wine chilled?
When you're faced with a hot glass of red wine on a warm summer night,
try throwing in a few frozen grapes.
The chilled fruit won't dilute the wine or release much flavor.
26. Roll Lemons before cutting & juicing.
This will bursts the tiny juice filled cells in the lemon’s flesh,
allowing more of the juice to be extracted.
27. Hard-Cooked Eggs in a Muffin Pan
Baking eggs instead of boiling them is better
since it can lessen the eggs sulphurous smell
and the egg texture is a whole lot creamier.
Here’s how to do it:
Preheat oven to 325. Place a dozen eggs into a standard 12-count muffin pan.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.
After baking, place hard-cooked eggs into a cold water bath.
Crack and peel your pretty eggs.
No gouges or shell marks from peeling.
Just easy, perfect little eggs
There you have it. Lovely little hard-cooked eggs in a muffin pan.
28. Line Cake Pans With Parchment Paper
Line your baking pans with parchment paper before making brownies or cake.
Then you can just pull it out, easily cut
and not have to woryy about the mess.
29. Simple ways to cut cherry tomatoes
Don’t you hate it when you have to cut a lot of cherry tomatoes
and it take a long time to finished it?
Simply put the cherry tomatoes between 2 plates then with a sharp knife,
cut through the gap.
The cherry tomatoes will cut up perfectly.
30. Microwave Pizza With a Glass of Water
Day-old pizza can be soft, chewy and gross,
a former shell of the delicious treat you bought yesterday.
By microwaving your pizza with a glass of water,
you'll restore the pie to its former glory.
31. Shred chicken in less than a minute
Place whole cooked chicken breast hot from the pan or boiling water
and place them into your KitchenAid with the beater attachment.
Add your splatter guard if you have one
and turn that bad boy on to a medium setting for about 45 sec.
And like magic you get shredded chicken in seconds! Hello time saver!
32. Pick up the egg yolk with your hand…
or with empty bottle…
33. How to cut a bell pepper without seeds
This is a very simple process.
All you have to do is:
Cut off the bottom, cut off side 1, cut off side 2,
cut off side 3, cut off side 4 and discard the core.
That’s all for now…
For more Kitchen hack and organizing Ideas,
stay tune to our channel.