The smart cooking tips that will make your life easier!
Who knew that cooking could be so fun and easy!
Whether you’re living on your own, feeding a large family, or working as a chef in a restaurant: these handy cooking tips can help everyone. Sometimes you forget how fun and easy cooking can be. Let’s get to work!
1. Bake an omelet au bain-marie
Au bain-marie: you have probably already heard of this technique, but usually we only use it to melt chocolate. Did you know you can throw an omelet together au bain-marie just as well? It’s simple. Take two heat-resistant metal lids and place them in your frying pan. Place the beaten eggs into the lids and fill the rest of the pan with boiling water. Let them bake for a bit and behold: perfectly round mini omelets!
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2. Stock or wine in an ice cube tray
Do you have leftover stock or wine? Unfortunately, you cannot keep it in the fridge for too lang, and throwing it away would be wasteful. Luckily, both liquids can be kept in the freezer! Put them in an ice cube tray: you can preserve them for much longer this way. And isn’t it practical to always have some wine or stock on hand when you’re in the kitchen? This trick is fun, easy and saves money!
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3. Let your fruit ripen faster
Do you have a green banana, a rock-hard mango, or other unripe fruit you need to use sooner rather than later? With this trick, your fruit will ripen a lot faster: place the unripe fruit in a paper bag together with an apple. You’ll notice this speeds up the ripening process by a lot!
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4. Knowing when an avocado is ready to eat
Picking avocados always feels like a huge guessing game. You never know whether it’s perfectly ripe on the inside, or rather too hard or too soft. Luckily, there is an easy way to find out whether an avocado is really ready to eat. Simply remove the ‘button’ at the top and look at the color. Is the avocado green at this point? Then you can open it! Is it brown? Then it’s likely to be past its prime. Is it hard to remove the button? Then the avocado is probably not ripe enough just yet.
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5. Heating your frying pan
You may already know that it’s best to preheat a pan before adding oil or butter. But for how long exactly? Three minutes seems to be a good guideline. As a result, your food is usually cooked a bit more quickly.
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6. Use mayonnaise on the BBQ
Huh?! Apparently, the best way to grill fish on the BBQ is to coat the fillets with mayonnaise. This prevents the fish from sticking to the grid and allows them to cook evenly. So, rub your fish fillets all around with mayo before placing them on the BBQ.
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7. Peel potatoes super quickly
Potatoes are incredibly versatile and delicious. No wonder we often put them on the table! Do you think that peeling potatoes is a boring chore? Then this trick is for you! First, cut the potato crosswise with a knife. The cut should just go through the skin. Subsequently place the potatoes in a pot with boiling water and let them cook. After fifteen minutes you can pull the peel right off!
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8. The creamiest scrambled eggs
To prepare deliciously creamy scrambled eggs, add a spoonful of mayonnaise when you whip up the eggs. For a slightly healthier version, go for a dash of while milk. Delicious!
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9. Peeling garlic with ease
Garlic is indispensable in the kitchen for many, even though it can be very inconvenient to peel the little cloves. Fortunately, we have a handy kitchen hack for that too! Put the garlic in a glass jar and shake it vigorously. The skins will peel off much faster. Or use the trick below, where you gently pry the cloves apart with a fork.
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10. Hamburgers with cheese filling
Love cheeseburgers? Then you should really give this combination a try. Make your own minced meat burger and place a Babybel cheese on top. Top with a second hamburger and press together. Bake as usual and voilà: a thick hamburger with cheese filling!
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11. Heat your pizza without a microwave
Do you have leftover pizza? We often heat it up in a microwave, but this does not always make for the best quality pizza. The crust often turns soft and a little too soggy in the microwave. It’s tastier when you simply heat it in a frying pan. The crust will stay crunchy this way, and the pizza as a whole will retain more flavor.
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12. An easy way to cut meat
Meat has a distinct texture that can be hard to cut through. Looking to cut nice cubes or strips? Then put the meat in the freezer for 15 minutes. This is just long enough to firm up the meat, without freezing it. Cutting the meat into even pieces will be much easier.
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13. Very clever way to cut herbs
Fresh herbs really complete a dish. Did you know you can easily cut them by using a pizza cutter? Put the fresh herbs on a cutting board and roll over them a few times with the large round disc. Easy as pie!
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14. Crushing garlic
Even without a garlic press you can distribute the flavor of garlic evenly through your dish. Use a mortar and pestle to crush a few cloves of garlic. This releases many delicious aromas!
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15. Creamy boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes
A dash of cream improves just about any dish, but have you ever thought about cooking your potatoes or vegetables in cream? Of course, it’s best not to make this into a daily habit healthwise, but from time to time you can treat yourself with this delicious method. Simply replace boiling water with boiling cream and cook the potatoes in it. Alternatively, mash for creamy mashed potatoes.
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