24 brilliant life hacking Kitchen

At the same prescription professional chefs spend half an hour on the strength and novice in the kitchen trying to make something like all half. The fact that the real masters know many useful techniques that facilitate and speed up the cooking process.

1. To the ice was transparent, freeze boiled water

Ice, served in restaurants is usually crystal clear and transparent. And from your refrigerator cubes is cloudy and white. But this can be corrected, first boil the water (can be double), only then pour it into a mold.

2. Always check the age of the eggs, to make sure that they are fresh

To do this, dip them in water:

• just demolished an egg will lie sideways on the bottom;
• week old egg pops up a blunt end;
• egg at the age of 2-3 weeks will stand perpendicular to the bottom of the glass;
• very old egg pops up to the surface - it should not be there in any case.

3. A large number of eggs can be cooked in the oven

In a preheated 160 degree oven they will cook for 15-30 minutes.

4. Push down on the lemon and a little roll it on the surface of the table

So squeeze the lemon juice will be much easier.

5. Put in a glass of wine a few frozen vinogradinok

The drink will be cold, but do not dilute.

6. With the help of a spoon can be cleaned in a few minutes ginger

At ginger rather bizarre shape, so clean it with a knife is not very convenient: cut off too much. Usual tablespoon do the task better.

7. Keep the ice in a plastic bag

To the ice cream in the freezer is not turned to stone, previously put it in the bag.

8. To peel the garlic, a good shake it

Place the garlic in a bowl and shake well, holding his hand. Most of the husks will disappear by itself. Instead, you can use the bowl jar with a lid.

9. When grilling fish on the grill, put under it a few lemon slices

any a fish It will taste better if you cook it with lemon.

10. Put the pan on top of a wooden spoon

Then Boiling the water will not spill out onto the plate.

11. Bake bacon in the oven

Bacon from the cafe are always evenly frizzled: it is not wet at the ends, in the middle is not crumbly, not hard and not overcooked. Most people are at home in a frying pan fry the bacon, and the employees of the restaurant just send it in the oven.

12. Cut several cherry tomatoes can immediately by two covers or plates

Take two of the same diameter plates or plastic covers. On one part of the Put the tomatoes, and the second from the top cover. Hold the top plate, a knife, cut the tomatoes all at once.

13. Cookies to stay longer soft and fresh, store it with a slice of apple

There is nothing nicer soft crumbly homemade cookies straight from the oven. But after a couple of days, they are similar to crunches. To biscuit remains soft for several days, store it in a container with a slice of apple.

14. To guacamole stay fresh longer, add a little water

On contact with oxygen guacamole quickly loses its flavor and bright green color turns brown. To avoid this, to shift the remains of guacamole dish in an airtight container and pour on top of a small amount of water. The water in this case will act as a protective barrier. When you want to eat a snack, just drain the water.

15. Lunch at the stake can be cooked in foil

If you are an avid camper, you probably know this trick: any pots and pans can be replaced with a piece of foil and cook food in it. Just put all the ingredients into a foil, carefully wrap and send it to the fire. What is the most beautiful, after a delicious dinner, do not even have to wash the dishes.

16. Oil can soften to a glass cup

Often we forget before cooking to remove the butter from the refrigerator. Correct this mistake is very simple: take the glass glass, hold it a few seconds in the microwave or under hot running water, and then cover with a glass of this pat of butter. Under the warm glass, it quickly softens.

17. A quick way to clean the orange

Put an orange on a cutting board, cut the rind from the top and bottom. Then make a cut perpendicular to the side. It remains only to pull in different directions, and you get a strip of lobules.

18. Reach trapped in an egg shell fragments with wet hands

The situation that occurs almost every day: you break the egg into the pan and notice there are a couple of small pieces of shell. To get them, you need to wet your fingers with water and cockleboat instantly stick to them.

19. Peel corn by using bakeware cupcake

Usually, pan bakeware - round and with a hole in the center. It is necessary that the heavy dough well propeklos inside. But you can use it to clean the corn. Insert the ear of corn in the hole and remove any seeds with a knife. They fall into the tank and will not scatter all over the kitchen.

20. To cane sugar remained soft, store it with bread or marshmallows

When storing sugar cane often hardens. To avoid this, put in a bowl with sugar slice of bread or marshmallows.

If the sugar has hardened, there is an easy way to soften it: pour the sugar into the mold, cover with a damp towel for a few minutes. Then send in the microwave for 30 seconds - the sugar will again become soft and crumbly.

21. To cut the cake, use dental floss

There is an alternative way to gently cut the cake without a knife or cake: take floss (without any perfumes, not to spoil the taste) and divide the cake into pieces. This works not only for sweet baked goods such as cakes, but also for soft cheese.

22. To replace the taste of saturated vegetable oil cream

Popular wisdom says: Porridge oil will not spoil. And not only porridge. And not only do not spoil, but rather, to make the best: any dish becomes more dense texture and rich flavor, if you use butter instead of the usual oil. Butter can also replace the water in the recipes with milk.

23. Squeeze lemon juice can with tongs

If you need to squeeze out a large amount of lemon juice, but you do not have a juicer, it does not matter. It can be replaced by conventional cooking tongs.

24. Simple ways to improve the taste of bad wine

Imagine the situation: you bought in the store a bottle of wine, and it turned out to taste worse. Pour out, of course, a pity, but through the power of not thirsty. There is a solution - you can try at least a little to improve its taste.

Firstly, it is possible to make sangria: Add the wine pieces of fruit, berries, spices and refrigerate. The taste will be much better. For winter evenings there is a worthy alternative - cook mulled wine. Second, you can eat some mushrooms. For unknown reasons, after the mushroom flavor of the wine begins to look much nicer.

A wine that gives a sulfur smell or taste, you can do better by throwing a glass of copper coin. If you smell really comes from the fact that the wine is, the compounds of sulfur, copper instantly neutralizes them, and the smell will disappear.