7 Useful Fruit Hacks You Should Know – Part 2
Useful Fruit Hacks
Previously, we’ve learned lots of cool fruit-related hacks like making bananas ripe faster with oven. If you’ve missed that, click on the related post link below and have some light reading. They’re really interesting!
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Here’s another list of amazing fruit tips and hacks that you should know about!
1. Juicier Pineapple
Pineapple doesn’t ripen any further once picked. In case you accidentally chose a not-so-ripe pineapple, there’s a way to make it sweeter! Here’s how:
- Cut the crown of pineapple
- Put it upside down on a plate
- Stick it into the fridge up to 3 days
The idea is to let the sweet sugar juice from the ripe part (the bottom) flow down and spread about the fruit.
2. Ripen Avocado In 10 Minutes
With this trick, you don’t have to worry about buying unripe avocados. Here’s what you need to do:
- Wrap the avocado in aluminium foil
- Bake it in the oven at 200°F for 10 minutes
Wrapping the avocado makes it ripen faster by trapping the ethylene gas in it. Ethylene gas is usually released by fruit to help it ripen. Heating it in the oven helps soften the fruit. However, this technique will change the taste of the avocado slightly because it is cooked. It is recommended to go for this technique in case you need avocado for cooking purposes. Otherwise, it might be better to keep the wrapped avocado and wait till it ripen naturally.
3. Keep Apple From Browning With Rubber Band
A Youtuber King of Random demonstrated an outstanding way to cut your apples. It is recommended to cut the apples into 9 pieces as in the image because it’s easier to hold it together with a rubber band. The rubber band keeps the apple in place and protects the white flesh from being oxidized by air. This prevents it from turning brown.
4. Split Watermelon With Penny
Sometimes, things happen and you forgot to bring a knife out to your picnic. Now, you’re not sure how to split open the watermelon. Everything starts to crumble and this might turn out to be the worse picnic ever. But, it doesn’t have to turn that way. You can open it with a penny!
Start by slicing a thin opening around the watermelon.
Then, karate chop the watermelon right in the middle. That should open it up.
It may not look neat and all. At least it is split opened and you can just dig in!
5. How To Remove Blackberry Stains From Your Hands
Blackberries are highly nutritious and is an awesome snack. Sometimes, we just couldn’t help ourselves but to eat it with our bare hands while watching netflix. However, blackberries can leave a stain on your fingers. Worry not, you can clean it off with lemon juice. Just rub your hand with a piece of lemon. You can add salt for abrasiveness. After a few scrubs, your hands will be clean as before.
6. Squeeze & Roll Your Oranges
Squeezing it and rolling them gently on the table helps loosen the skin fibers. In turn, you’ll be able to peel them easily. This is also applicable to other citrus fruits such as grapefruits and clementine.
7. Squeeze Lemons With Tongs
If you don’t have a juicer, you might have to squeeze the lemons the manual way. No, not with hands but with tongs. Just put it right in the middle and let the tongs grip it tight. Then, squeeze it hard. The tongs should make it much more comfortable to squeeze than bare hands.
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