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6 Life-Changing Kitchen Tricks For Easier Cooking

Kitchen Hacks Will Make You Enjoy Cooking Again

By Annie TremblayPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Cooking at home is the optimal solution for healthier eating at half the cost of eating out, but granted, it isn’t always everyone’s cup of tea. Some may not have the time, patience, skills, or just preference to cook their own meals at home. However, we’ve put together a few life-changing cooking tips that will draw in even the toughest critics of cooking at home. These easy tricks will make your life easier and how uncomplicated life in the kitchen needs to be. Here’s how you can switch up how you use kitchen utensils that are just laying around in everyone’s house to get the most of it.

1. Mug Meals

An ultimate favorite for those who live alone and don’t want entire portions of meals to go to waste. Instead of microwaving frozen dinners, most of your favorite meals can easily be made in a mug. Eggs, macaroni and cheese, cakes and cookies are among only a few of notable ones. There’s endless recipes you can find online for healthy and delicious mug meals.

2. Ice Tray Wonders

There’s a lot you can do with a single ice tray that’s not related to making ice. Freeze a tray full of espresso or milk and add the cubes to your next iced coffee to avoid it becoming watered down. You can also freeze wine or stock cubes and use them for sauces and soups later on! Turn your imaginative gears on and experiment with your ice tray.

3. Slicing and Dicing

Chopping everything with a knife, worrying about it being the right size and even to all the rest of the pieces is a headache even for those who are in the kitchen all day, every day. To relieve yourself of this, head on over to your nearest home and living store or even a kitchen supply store online and get yourself a mandoline, spiralizer, or any chopping product that will catch your eye. There’s a lot of products in the market that can give you even slices of any produce within a few seconds and half the effort of using a knife.

4. Peel Easy

Peeling, deseeding, and other tasks of this nature are time-consuming and can take the fun out of any recipe. But there are more effective ways to achieve this that don’t change the overall outcome. Instead of peeling your potatoes first, boil them in water and remove the peels easily once it’s cooled down. For peeling garlic or cleaning out a pomegranate, shake it up in a jar and watch the item separate from the peel.

5. Pan Pizzas

Similar to mug meals, you don’t even need an oven to make a pizza. Roll out your down into a hot pan and make yourself an individual dinner tonight. Truth is, you don’t even need to use dough if you don’t have it at hand. Tortillas are a great alternative to making pan pizzas or pan meals in general. Add all of your favorite toppings and call it a day. No extensive cleanup is required afterwards.

6. Serving Hot and Cold

Have you ever been to a restaurant where the plates were warm and keeping the meal toasty? And the glass filled with your drink was too cold to even hold? You can recreate this experience at home with ease. This is a great tip when you don’t have premade ice at hand. Put your glasses in the freezer for a few minutes before use then pour your drink in it. Just make sure you don’t pour any liquids warmer than room temperature to avoid cracking glass. As for the plates, run them under near boiling hot water for a few seconds before serving your meal.

Did these give you any ideas for your next snack or meal? Head on over to the kitchen and see what you have to work with! Cooking doesn’t need to laborious if you work smart and not hard, especially with the array of kitchen utensils that can make just about any task half as easy.

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