Kitchen Tips

Some tips to make your life easier in the kitchen.
In the kitchen, each has small tricks to make his dishes the most tasty. The small ingredients, secrets of mother or grandmother are the most useful. However, there are some things that your mother did not teach you and that you discover yourself by experimenting.

1. Easily remove an egg shell

To avoid taking your head every time you want to remove an eggshell, there is a little trick. Fill a pan with cold water and dip the eggs before adding baking soda. After 10 minutes of boiling, pass them under cold water.

2. Butter the mussels with the butter packs

Rather than throw away the packs of your butter boards, keep them and use them to butter your mussels. You not only use what you have left of your pads, but you also avoid getting your hands dirty. An economic and ecological gesture.

3. Melt the ingredients

Take advantage of the preheating time of your oven to melt the butter and chocolate while you start preparing your recipe. In a few minutes they will be melted. This will prevent you from using the microwave. This saves you energy and reduces your bill by the end of the month.

4. Peel ginger with a teaspoon

It is preferred to use the traditional knife which is not often adapted to the nooks of fresh ginger. Instead, use a teaspoon. With your left hand, take the ginger, the spoon in your right hand, face bulging over it and grate with the back of the spoon.

5. Put sugar in the pie dough

To give crispiness to your apple pie and to hold it, put sugar in the mold just before you put your pie. When you unmold it, you will be amazed at the result. Enough to impress your guests.

6. Freezing meat or fish

To easily cut meat or fish, or prune correct slices, there is a simple trick. Freeze your meat for 15 minutes and then cut thin slices without any problem. A magic trick!

7. Peel a warm potato without a knife

To peel the potatoes easily is better to cook them. But at the time of removing the skin, one burns the fingers and the skin always sticks a little because of the starch. To avoid this, spend a few minutes your potato under cold water to easily remove the skin.

8. Freezing grapes

If you do not have ice cube molds, frozen grapes can serve as ice cubes. At the time of the aperitif, serve them in wine. The advantage is that the grapes will not be diluted like ice cubes. In addition, it will not wash your wine. It's simple!

9. Roll a lemon between your palm and the countertop

This trick will allow you to get the most juice when squeezing your lemon. To do this, you have to roll it two or three times between your palm and the work surface. All you have to do now is squeeze your lemon.

10. Use a wooden spoon

To cook pasta or rice, very often you put the water to heat and you forget it, time to prepare other ingredients. The trick is to put a wooden spoon on the pan. This will slow down the overflow and avoid dirtying your plates.