Food Hacks That Will Make Cooking Your Next Meal Way Easier
These food-related life hacks will change the way you cook. Keep reading to learn smart cooking tricks for everyday meals that will make cooking so much easier while helping you create less waste and get the most out of your grocery bill. Read on to learn more.
Peeling Garlic Has Never Been Easier
Peeling garlic can be a finicky task. The delicate outer skin sticks to everything. If you want to peel a large amount of garlic really quickly, put the garlic cloves into a bowl or container with a tight-fitting lid. Then shake the bowl very quickly and forcefully and the skin should come right off.
You can store your peeled garlic in the freezer for easy access whenever you need it.
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Keep Pre-Cut Onions In The Freezer
Onions are often the base of so many of our favorite dishes. Whether you're making a pasta sauce, an omelet, a stew, or a soup, you're going to need a few diced onions. Onions can be a pain to chop, and sometimes you're cooking under a time limit.
You can pre-cut onions and keep them in a plastic bag in your freezer. Then you'll be ready to go whenever you want to do some home cooking.
There's A Better Way To Peel A Kiwi
The kiwi is one of the most delicious fruits you can bite into. It's tangy, sweet, and smooth. Cutting a kiwi can be difficult though. These fruits have really thin skin and it's hard to get that skin off without removing chunks of the actual fruit.
Here are a few kiwi peeling hacks that you can use. Cut the kiwi in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Alternatively, you can use the edge of a glass to remove kiwi skin in a few swoops.
How To Stop Avocados From Browning
Avocados are delicious, but if you leave them cut and exposed to the air for too long, all of that delicious green flesh starts to turn brown. To prevent this from happening, spray the cut side of your avocado with cooking oil to create a barrier between the avocado and the air.
You can also use this trick on guacamole. Spray the top of the guac with cooking oil so it doesn't turn brown.
How To Keep Your Potatoes Nice And Fresh
You know how they say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away? Well, an apple a day also keeps potatoes from rotting. If you put just one apple in your potato drawer (or wherever you keep your potatoes), your potatoes will last longer.
Then you can use that apple to make apple sauce which goes perfectly with potato latkes (fried potato pancakes or fritters). Trust me on this one. It's an excellent combination.
Shuck Corn In One Swift Motion
Shucking corn can take a long time if you don't know how to do it properly. Plus all of those stringy bits can take forever to remove. Here's a quick and easy way to get all of that husk off in one swift motion.
Just chop off the wider end of the corn. Then you can easily slide out the whole cob without dealing with all of that stringy nonsense.
How To Chop An Onion Without Crying
Onions are delicious and essential for so many great dishes. The problem is when you chop an onion, the chemicals released from the onion cause your eyes to sting and water.
The next time you're chopping up an onion, try putting a metal spoon in your mouth. It will lift up your soft palate to prevent tears from forming. You can also try chopping the onion in a bowl of water.
How To Use Up That Last Bit Of Nutella
Nutella is so good that you want to use up every last drop, but it can be annoying trying to get every last drop out of the jar with a spoon or a fork. Instead of scraping, throw some cake batter into the jar and pop the whole thing in the microwave.
You've just made an instant Nutella cake! If microwave cakes aren't your thing, you can always make a milkshake in your almost empty Nutella jar.
How To Easily Peel A Hard Boiled Egg
It's hard to perfectly peel a hard-boiled egg without removing bits of egg while you're scraping off the shell. Here's a hack you can use to get a perfectly smooth surface every time.
Place your hard-boiled egg in a glass with a bit of water in it. Put your hand over the top of the glass (or a lid if you have one) and shake it around. The shell will crack and become easy to remove.
How To Sanitize A Sponge
Sponges soak up all the nasty food residue that's on your plates and cutlery, so you either need to throw your sponges away pretty frequently, or figure out how to sanitize them. Throwing away sponges all the time is bad for the environment and bad for your wallet.
To sanitize a sponge, just wet it and put it in the microwave for two minutes. That will kill off a whole bunch of harmful germs.
How To Save Scallions
Why not apply this hack to all kinds of veggies and fruit that need chopping? You'll cut your cooking time in half and your fresh produce won't sit around for so long that it goes bad.
You can put any leftover chopped scallions you have into an empty water bottle and store that in the freezer. Stored this way, scallions can last for up to three months. Then you'll always have scallions on hand when you need them.
How To Poach An Egg
Poached eggs are absolutely delicious, but they can be deceptively difficult to make. They look simple enough, but if the water isn't at just the right temperature, or if you don't stir the water exactly right, you can end up with bits of egg all over your pot and not much of a poached egg at all.
If you pour a little bit of white vinegar into your poaching water, your poached eggs will be way easier to handle and they should stay together better.
