The hub of meal preparation in homes, kitchens easily transform into disorganized spaces overflowing with meal ingredients, used pans, and spills on every countertop. This daily whirlwind of cooking often leaves home cooks feeling overwhelmed and stressed about getting dinner on the table. However, with a few clever simplifying techniques, you can streamline tasks like cooking, baking, and cleaning up. Small adjustments that save time and frustration really add up.
Material required:
Dish soap
Paper
Cloth towel
Apple
Wooden spoon
Grater
Clean a blender quickly: Instead of scrubbing at sticky blender residue after making smoothies or purees, make cleaning easy. Fill your blender halfway with warm water and add a small squeeze of dish soap. Blend at high speed for 30 seconds. The warm, soapy water will loosen and dissolve any bits stuck to the sides or bottom. Moreover, you should also take care of cooking safety.
Keep lettuce crisp: Leafy lettuce and spinach often go limp fast. Store them in an airtight container lined with a paper or cloth towel. The towel acts like a sponge, absorbing excess moisture and making greens soggy and slimy. It keeps them crisper and fresher longer.
Stop potatoes from sprouting: Potatoes stored in cool, dark places are less likely to sprout. But you can be even more sure your potatoes don’t begin growing new shoots and roots by storing apples with them. Apples give off ethylene gas. This natural gas blocks the hormones inside potatoes that make sprouts start to grow. The ethylene keeps potatoes dormant longer. So, add an apple or two to your bag or basket of potatoes to halt the sprouting process.
Use a wooden spoon to prevent boil-overs: Laying a wooden spoon atop a boiling pot efficiently prevents messy overflows. The wide spoon head interferes with the rising bubbles, stopping them from overflowing the sides. This neat trick holds liquids in the pot and avoids stovetop spills or burns.
Grate butter for baking: Recipes asking for cold, solid butter often call for dicing it into dry ingredients. But grating chilled butter using a large cheese grater hole instead makes baked goods more tender and flakier. The fine strands blend smoothly into the dough or batter.
