15 Helpful Kitchen Tips
by Ruby Hawk on Oct 02, 2008 with 24 Comments
If you want to know if eggs are fresh, here’s how. What to do if your cheese is moldy, the best way to skin chicken, how to peel and cut those hard winter squash, how to tenderize meat. Here are the answers to those questions and more.
If you are looking for a little help in the kitchen, (aren’t we all?) These useful tips will make your cooking chores a bit easier.
- For fluffier mashed potatoes, add a pinch of baking soda along with butter and milk.
- Skin chicken when slightly frozen for easier skinning.
- Drop a wine cork in the stew pot. The tannin in it helps tenderize the meat. Just remember to take it our before serving.
- When separating several eggs, crack them all in a bowl and use your hands to scoop out the yolks.
- Use a little soy sauce to color and flavor gravy.
- If you have mold on your cheese, just slice it off, it is still perfectly good.
- Put a jar lid or a marble in the bottom of your double boiler. It will rattle if the water boils away.
- Slip your hand in a plastic bag to answer the phone when making meat loaf.
- Micro wave hard winter squash to make it easier to cut and peel.
- Put a slice of bread in the cookie jar. It will keep the chewy cookies soft.
- Partially frozen evaporated milk whips up like cream.
- To determine if eggs are fresh, put them in a few inches of water. If they are horizontal they are fresh. If they are vertical they are not.
- To ripen a tomato put it in a brown paper bag.
- Use a clear baking dish as a page weight for your cook book. You can read through it.
- 150 strokes by hand are the same as one minute beating with an electric beater.
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goodselfme | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
I want to live next door to you! This is fantastic, always useable info and so well composed for an easy read.thank you.
jo oliver | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
great tips ruby. Love 1, 3, and 14!
lanne | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
Great tips Ruby. I am always looking for ways to save time.
christine | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the tips Ruby, I am always looking for a way to get fluffier mashed potatoes.
Unofre Pili | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
These are wonderful tips.
Melody Arcamo Lagrimas | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
These are great and useful tips worth remembering. Thank you very much, Ruby.
Darlene McFarlane | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
Great tips here, Ruby. I am going to use the wine cork trick. Winter is coming and so are the hearty stews.
Bozsi Rose | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
Very useful! I’m definitely using the paperweight!
CHAN LEE PENG | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
Indeed, good tips!Thanks and take care!
william rodriguez II | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
Very useful tips,thanks!
Heart Stone | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
Very informative and useful. Great tips to consider and to apply.
raguett MF | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
Great tips…another great peice….
Gerlaine | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
#10 also works with brown sugar…to keep it fresher longer (not forever)
I will have to use #12. There is nothing worse than cracking a bad egg!
And in addition, if you add paper towel to your fruits and vegetables that are bagged or packaged, it will take on excess condensation and allow the veggie or fruit to stay more firm and crisp.
Great peice!
valli | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
Great tips.
Moses Ingram | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
It sounds wonerful, really great tips.
nobert soloria bermosa | Oct 4, 2008 | Reply
very useful tips,thanks Mom,
Ruby Hawk | Oct 4, 2008 | Reply
Thank you all for yout interest. Anything to help us make our kitchen chores easier. Another one I didn’t add is one I use everytime I make biscuits. I add a little vinigar to my milk. It makes the bicuits fluffier. Thanks again to all my friends. Take care, Ruby
Ruby Hawk | Oct 4, 2008 | Reply
Nobert, You are welcome, son.
Nanci | Oct 4, 2008 | Reply
These are good. I will use the microwave for the winter squash first.
BC Doan | Oct 5, 2008 | Reply
very useful tips, Ruby!
Alexa Gates | Oct 5, 2008 | Reply
great tips!
PR Mace | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Ruby, I learned some new cooking tips today.
lindalulu | Oct 15, 2008 | Reply
Wonderful tips, Ill have to try them.
Mind1 | Oct 15, 2008 | Reply
I can use these. I like the tip about making meatloaf, I will definitely use that one.