10 Easy Kitchen Hacks That’ll Make Your Life Easier – Part 2
Easy Kitchen Hacks
Kitchen hacks are some of the most useful ideas out there that we should know about. It helps us save time, prolong the freshness of the produce we bought and some other advantages that will make us master of the kitchen. We have created a similar post previously. So, check that out for tips that is not covered in this post:
11 Smart Kitchen Hacks That’ll Make Your Life Easier – Part 1
1. Punched Paper Bags
Apparently storing onions, garlics and shallots in punched paper bags is the best way to keep your produce fresh and edible up to 3 months. The bags of produce should be put in dark cool area. Read for more specific instructions via link below.
2. Whole Yellow Egg Trick
Yes, it’s chicken egg. You can scramble them before making hard-boiled eggs out of them. Checkout the tutorial video below.
3. Rubber Band To Open Jar
Rubber band adds more gripping power to your hands as you twist the jar open. It should make it easier to open that stubborn jar. Using plastic glove works the same.
4. Cut The Perfect Cheese Slice
Don’t have cheese knife? Use dental floss instead! Sometimes, we need our cheese to be in that exact round shape as how it comes in for different cooking purpose. That’s when this trick will come in handy.
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5. Instant Cold Lemon Water
Lemon water is beneficial to our body. It’s a natural flush that helps with clearer skin, maintaining weight and loaded with vitamin C. So, here’s a quick way to reap the benefits of it in cold refreshing way.
6. Quick Makeshift Funnel With Envelope
Cut the envelope at strategic places to turn it into a functional funnel. You can certainly do this with some simple origami folding techniques as well.
7. Make Cookies Soft Again With Bread
Cookies harden over time and that ruins the pleasure of eating them. Make them soft again by storing it with a piece of bread in an airtight container. Leave it for a day before trying out your cookies again.
8. Restore Bread’s Freshness
Bread lose moisture over time and become stale. So, what we want to do is to put the moisture back in. Here’s how:
- Soak paper towel in water and squeeze water out of it.
- Wrap the bread with it.
- Microwave for 10 seconds.
- Serve!
9. Use A Glass To Peel Mango
Peeling with fruit peeler is fine but it takes time. As the skin slides off, you get less grip over the mango and that might get things harder a bit. So, instead of doing that, cut the mangoes in huge slices. Then, use a glass to scrape the skin off, leaving only the juicy flesh in the glass.
10. Hold Recipe With Cloth Hanger
Let’s be honest. Recipe book should be designed in a way that it’s easy for it to remain open at that specific page. It’s annoying that it’ll close by itself. It almost feels like the book designer expects you to memorize the recipe in your head and do the steps. Well, that’s quite some expectation right there. Thank God, that there’s a cheap solution to this. Cloth hanger is the perfect thing that you can use to grip your book in a comfortable position for you to have a read while doing it step by step.
Hey, thanks for reading till the end. We hope it has been beneficial to you. Share it if you like it. If you haven’t read our previous post of kitchen hacks, have a read via link below.
11 Smart Kitchen Hacks That’ll Make Your Life Easier – Part 1
