26 culinary life hacking with foil, which will be useful on the farm

How to cook a couple without steamers, protect the plate from stains and cork open bottle using thin sheets of aluminum.

1. Turn conventional container lunchbox

The partition of foil - the perfect solution for dishes, not divided into sections where you do not want to mix the tastes of different dishes.

2. Shorten your baking

If the pan is too large for the amount of dough, make a side of the foil in its baking dish. Especially important for jellied cakes.

3. Create any form for baking

Do you want to bake a cake in the original form of the heart or star, but the house is not suitable shape? Do not rush to go to the store. Form for the momentary rush of cooking can make the foil, first make a circuit of the strips, and then attach the bottom.

4. Bake cookies figure

Instead of the standard metal molds can use stencils from foil. Create any shape and cut it with a knife on the test circuit.

5. Make a box for cupcakes

If the hand is not a special container, a sheet of foil Cover the cake pan. Make a well in the resulting cell lay out cupcakes. From another sheet make "house". So you will be able to transfer the dessert, not crumple and do not lubricate the cream.

6. Save the cake or pizza with soft edges

If your oven turns brown in shoe soles, wrap the edge of the baking dish with foil.

7. Freshen stale bread

Sprinkle with water, wrap in foil and send it in the oven for five minutes at a temperature of 180-200 ° C. After this procedure, you can cut or break the bread, not crumbled.

8. Keep pizza right

Wrap the remaining pieces in foil and freeze, and when you want crisp next time pizza a viscous cheese, heat it in an oven (15 minutes at 200 ° C).

9. Make holders for snacks

To tortillas do not fall and do not stick together when baked and the filling is scattered, to shift cake bars foil.

10. Grill the bacon on the foil improvised grid

Thanks to the fan-shaped foil oil will flow into the grooves, and the bacon will be delicious and crispy.

11. Cook a juicy chicken in the oven

This can be done even when your oven is not equipped with a convection function. Put on a baking dense ring of foil and place it on the carcass. Hot air will envelop the chicken on all sides - it propechotsya faster and more evenly.

12. Wrap in foil wings and legs birds

So they are not roasted through when baked.

13. Cook the eggs on the grill or on the campfire

And yet the potatoes, chicken, eggplant and many other dishes. All this can be baked on coals in open or closed foil envelopes.

14. Turns any pan into a non-stick

Just Cover the foil it. It is also a great opportunity to not wash the dishes after themselves.

15. Cook for a couple of no-steamer basket

The absence of a separate kitchen, a double boiler, or even a special bowl for steaming can be compensated in two ways.

Roll the foil tight balls, put them on the bottom of the pot or pan with water and place on top of the plate with the fish or vegetables.

Pour in the bottom of the pot a little water, it Cover the foil and then make a few holes with a toothpick. Top can be covered with the dish cover. Convenient for cooking crisp rice or dumplings.

16. Save the plate against stains

And themselves from their tedious scrubbing. If you are going to cook a lot or for a long time, for example to do preparations for the winter, Cover the cooking surface of the foil, cut out holes for the burners. Then the "tablecloth" can be simply removed and discarded.

17. Dispose of fat burning and without a metal sponge

Ball of foil to cope with difficult dirt better than a special brush hard.

This simple device is also effective for cleaning grill of sludge.

18. Keep bananas longer

Wrap the base of stems and remove the foil bundle in the refrigerator.

19. Keep fresh celery

The "coat" of the foil it stalks do not lose succulence to four weeks. If they are not cleaned and kept in the refrigerator, of course.

20. Soften brown sugar

If sugar cane turned into stone, wrap it in foil and send in a preheated 150 ° C oven for five minutes.

21. Rub the peel correctly

Usually, she sticks to the walls and get stuck between the teeth grater, you need to work hard to get enough zest. But if you put a sheet of foil grater, you will quickly be a lot of zest, and the tool does not have to be washed.

22. Pour liquid lossless

Fold the foil sheet twice or three times and take the form of a cone. Get a great crater.

23. Clog foil bottle

She did not give drinks to lose flavor and carbonated - fizzle.

24. Cool drinks faster

Wrap the bottle with foil and send it in the refrigerator.

25. Do not let the ice cream melt in their hands

So that the heat does not melt popsicle toes, wrap it with foil.

26. Resealable bag without sealing machine

If you have not got such a useful device as a sealing machine plastic bags, then take two sheets of foil, put in between the edge of the package and iron iron.