25 kitchen Tips That Can Help You
1. If eventually you boil your beans to burn before it gets done. Don't worry. In order to avoid polluting the whole pot of beans, do not turn the beans, pour out the whole beans and water without turning the beans and wash the inside of the pot completely and pour back your beans and start cooking all over again. In this, the smell of the burnt beans will not come up at all to spoil the taste of the beans.
2. Mistakenly you over salt your food while cooking and noticed it. Don't worry, Just look for potato and and peel some into the food, it will absorb and neutralize the salt for a fresh and good taste again.
3. To protecting your egg from cracking when boiling. Add a pinch of salt and you are done protecting your egg from cracking while cooking.
4. You want to soften your yam, potato and other tubers when frying. This will give you a smoother flow when eating them. Add a little water into the heated oil before adding your yam, potato and other tubers and fry, When done it will be soft, It will be soft as if cooked, even though is fried.
5. Do not put citrus fruits like tomatoes, some orange families like lemon, limes etc and tomatoes in the freezers. The low temperature degrade the aroma and flavor of these fruits. That's why our tomatoes and some other citrus don't last in the refrigerator and begin to sour and watery before we use them. At last changes taste.
6. To store empty airtight containers, put in a pinch of salt inside to prevent them from being stinky or smelly.
7. To clean iron cooking-ware, don't use detergents. Just scrub them with salt and clean with paper towel or dried towel.
8. When making stew a gravy stew and mistakenly burn it, pour it out and washout out the bottom pot and continue cooking, add a little lime and sugar, avoid over sugaring by tasting it as you continue to cook, the sugar with neutralize the burnt taste.
9. If you burn a pot of rice, place a piece of sliced white bread on top of the rice for about 5 minutes to 10 minutes to draw out the burned flavor in the rice. Watch out and be careful not to scrape the burned part from the bottom of the pot when serving the rice.
10. To prevent the hash reaction of red pepper on your hand when chopping to pieces, apply vegetable oil on your arm area and the skin area of your hand won't absorb the pepper to penetrate.
11. Not sure how your eggs are, Place them in about 4 inches of water level. Eggs that stay in the bottom are fresh while those that floats are not fresh. If one end of the egg is up, it means the egg freshness is reducing and should be used first and fast.
12. To keep ants away from your kitchen, look for the hole where they are coming from and apply vaseline petroleum jelly to seal the hole, ants can't trek pass the jelly. If they are coming from under the door, draw a line with chalk on the floor, they cannot pass the chalk. Or draw a line by pouring a line of white powder across the kitchen door mouth, the ants cannot cross the powder easily.
13. Stop storing your bananas in a bunch or in a bowel with other fruits. Separate your bananas from other fruits and place them in a different location. Bananas release gases which causes fruits including other bananas to ripe quick. Separating them will make them fresh for a longer period.
14. If you have some uncooked potatoes and you want to keep them from budding in the bag. Put a ball of apple inside the bag where they are stored, it works like magic to your surprise.
15. When defrosting meat from the freezer, pour some vinegar on the meat, it will not only tenderize the meat, it will also bring down the freezing temperature of the meat, causing it to thaw quicker. It is important that every woman should have vinegar in her kitchen.
16. IF you have some leftover wine from cocktail drinks at the end of the evening, freeze it in ice cube trays for easy addition into sauces. They work wonders in sauces in future.
17. Are you the type that shed tears while slicing your onion? This can work for you, after removing the dried back of the onion, chill it in your refrigerator for like 5 minutes and bring it out to dice or slice it, you will be happy that you came across this post.
18. After boiling your potatoes, pour out the water and allow it to cool down to normal water temperature, then pour it on any of your house plants to water them, the water contains nutrients that will make your plants healthy.
19. For your aluminium pans that are looking dull, boil some apple peels in them, It will brighten up the aluminium and make your house to smell interestingly.
20. If your salt is becoming lumpy, put some grains of rice inside the salt container to absorb excess moisture in it to keep your salt dry.
21. 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 odors or flavors from the oil.
22. Try as much as you can to keep an aloe vera plant in your kitchen, It is very useful when you scrape your arm or burn your finger, All you do is get the aloe vera leaf and cut the leaf and rub the gel on the injury.
23. When making a sauce or soup that ends up too fatty or greasy, put in an ice cube inside, the ice will attract the fat, which you can then scoop out of the pot of soup or sauce. That's a wonderful way of reducing fat from your soup or sauce.
24. If two drinking glass cups stuck together after use or stacking together, You can separate them by putting ice block in the inner glass cup and insert the outer glass cup into a warn water, the outer glass in warm water will expand and the inner glass cup with ice block will contract making the glasses to separate.
25 If your milk always go bad before you can finish it, try to add a pinch of salt to the carton when you first open it, it will make it last and stay days longer.
I hope and believe that this particular post will go a log way in adding value to your kitchen activities. Make your comments please.
