Kitchen Tips No One Has Ever Told You About

Kitchen Tips No One Has Ever Told You About

1. Chew gum while cutting onions so that it does not bring tears to your eyes.

2. Wondering how to reduce excess groundnut oil from that stew or palm oil from your soup? Simply drop an ice cube into the meal. It will attract all the fat, and then you can scoop out the ice afterward.

3. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, while heating the oil, drop a small piece of fresh ginger. This helps to absorb any flavors and odors.

4. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just
drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb
the excess salt.

5. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking.

6. Never put citrus fruits(Oranges,Lemons, limes, etc) or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperatures degrade the aroma and flavor of these fruits.(That’s why our tomatoes don’t last in the fridge)

7. To clean iron cooking-ware, don’t use detergents. Just scrub them with salt and a clean, dry paper towel.

8. When storing empty airtight containers, throw
in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting
stinky.

9. If you are making gravy(stew) and accidentally burn it, just pour it into a clean pan and continue cooking it. Add sugar a little at a time, tasting as you go to avoid ‘over-sugaring’it. The sugar will cancel out the burned taste.

10. Burned a pot of rice? Just place a piece of
white bread on top of the rice for 5-10 minutes to draw out the burned flavour. Be careful not to
scrape the burned pieces off of the bottom of the pan when serving the rice.

11. Before you chop fresh red peppers, rub a little
vegetable oil into your hands and your skin won’t absorb the spiciness.

12. If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are,
place them in about four inches of water. Eggs
that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.

13. To banish ants from the kitchen, find out
where they are coming in and cover the hole with petroleum jelly(Vaseline). Ants won’t trek through the jelly. If they are coming under a door, draw a line on the floor with chalk. The little bugs also won’t cross a line of chalk.

14. Don’t store your bananas in a bunch or in a
fruit bowl with other fruits. Separate your bananas and place each in a different location. Bananas release gases which cause fruits. (including other bananas) to ripen quickly. Separating them will keep them fresh longer.

15. To keep potatoes from budding in the bag,
put an apple in with them.

16. If you manage to have some leftover wine,
cocktail drinks at the end of the evening, freeze it in ice cube trays for easy addition to sauces (white wine works wonders in sauces, i don’t joke with them) in the future.

17. After boiling pasta or potatoes, cool the water and use it to water your house plants. The water contains nutrients that your plants will love.

18. When defrosting meat from the freezer, pour
some vinegar over it. Not only does it tenderize
the meat; it will also bring down the freezing
temperature of the meat and cause it to thaw
quicker. # Note every woman should have vinegar in her kitchen.

19. Do you cry while peeling off onions, then try
this. After peeling off your onions, refrigerate the onions for at least 5minutes, then dice it. You will be glad you did.

20. For aluminium pans that are looking dull, just boil some apple peels in them. This will brighten up the aluminum and make your house smell yummy.

21. If your salt is becoming lumpy, put a few
grains of rice in with it to absorb excess
moisture.

22. Always keep an aloe vera plant in your
kitchen. It’s invaluable when you scrape your arm or burn your finger. Just break off a leaf and rub the gel from the inside on the injury.

23. When making a soup, sauce, that ends up too fatty or greasy, drop in an ice cube. The ice will attract the fat, which you can then scoop out. This works wonders

24. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a 1/4″ piece of ginger in the oil. It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.

25. If your milk always goes bad before you can finish it, try adding a pinch of salt to the carton when you first open it. It will stay fresh days longer.

26. If two drinking glasses become stuck together after stacking, it’s not impossible to unstick them. Just put ice in the inner glass and dunk the outer glass in warm water. The warm glass will expand and the cold glass will contract, making the glasses separate easily.

27. For splinters under the fingernail, soaking the affected finger in a bowl of milk with a piece of bread in it, it will help .

ENJOY!