Cooking can be done much easier and also become more fun once you learn these 10 kitchen hacks. The following list of tricks will help you save both time and money. What you are about to read are 10 secret kitchen tips that only chefs know.
- Squeeze more juice from the lemons
Roll the lemon on a hard surface using your hands. Apply pressure while rolling it. The membranes then broke down which means you will get more of the lemon juice.
- Keep the Wine cold
Toss a few frozen grapes in your wine glass to keep the wine cold before drinking it.
- Peel ginger fast
Ginger skin can come off much faster if you use a spoon to scrape it off. Make sure you provide enough pressure with the spoon so that the skin can peel better.
- Cook eggs in the oven
Hard boiled eggs can also be prepared in the oven when put at max 160 degrees for about 15 minutes.
- Improve the flavor of a fish and prevent sticking
Add a few slices of lemon under the fish before grilling it in order to prevent it from sticking to the grill and also to improve the taste.
- Prevent bottle from boiling over
You can prevent this by putting a wooden spoon on the pot.
- Prevent ice cream from freezing hard
To prevent the ice cream from freezing too much put it in a bag before you place it in the fridge.
- Test freshness of eggs
You can easily determine the freshness of the eggs by putting them in water. The eggs that are too old will float at the surface of the water.
- Make crystal clear ice cubes
The ice cubes will be clear if you boil the water before freezing it.
- Peel garlic fast and easy
Put the garlic cloves in a bowl and then close it tightly. Shake the bowl hard until the garlic peels come off by themselves.