11.08.2011

Kitchen Tips

Little tips that can help around the kitchen:
  • After handling foods with strong odors such as onions, rubbing your hands with either fresh coffee beans or a stainless steel spoon will remove the smell.
  • If you have over-salted a soup drop in a potato, it will absorb the excess salt. 
  • To remove extra grease that builds up on top when cooking foods such as meatballs in marinara sauce, placing a leaf of lettuce over the top and then lifting it removes some of the oil. 
  • When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to the water to avoid having the shell crack.

  • A bit of salt in airtight containers prevents an odor from building up in it.
  • If a pot of rice has burned, place a slice of white bread on top for 5-10 minutes to help remove the burnt flavor. Avoid scrapping any rice from the bottom.
  • Rub vegetable oil on your hands when cutting chili peppers to counter your skin absorbing the spicy oils
  • To test the freshness of an egg, place it in a pot of water. If it sinks to the bottom it is fresh, if it floats up it is past its fresh date.

  • Try to store bananas away from other fruits and vegetables because it emits high levels of ethylene which promotes ripening. This makes produce go bad quicker.
  • To clean crevices in pots or containers, fill it with water and drop in Alka-Seltzer. The reaction will ease cleaning. 
  • Apply either mustard or toothpaste when you burn yourself in the kitchen. It relieves some pain and minimizes blistering.
  • Add some rice to the container in which you keep your salt to keep it from clumping.
  • Keep lettuce in a closed bag with a paper towel to lengthen the time it remains fresh.
  • To reuse oil without keeping the flavors of what was cooked before, cook 1/4 inch of ginger in it.

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