Archive Category: 'Kitchen Tips'

• 50 Quick Tips For The Kitchen: Strawberry Tip: Wash freshly picked strawberries & then take a wide plastic straw and insert it at the bottom of a strawberry–then push the stem out. This was previously published as a feature tip on Tipnut for Ask Your Neighbor – Helpful Household Tips. Measuring Tip: Rinse measuring cup in hot water before using syrup, oil, [...]
• How To Measure Accurately: {Tip Sheet}: How To Measure Accurately There’s a trick to measuring syrup, honey or molasses to make sure you get all of it out of the cup or spoon. Grease the measuring cup thoroughly with butter, using a pastry brush. Pour off excess butter and measure sweetening required. Empty contents of cup into mixing bowl. You needn’t use a scraper [...]
• Kitchen Q&A: Holiday Baking Edition: Do you know how to make a cookie place card for the holiday table? Or how to make colored sugar or shredded coconut for decorating baking? Do you want to learn how to make your own cookie cutters for fun, festive shapes? When is the best time to bake a fruitcake, right before Christmas day [...]
• Kitchen Q&A: What’s Half & Half Cream? (And More): This week’s Kitchen Q & A answers questions on why brown sugar gets hard, what the difference between evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk is, what half and half cream is and how to tell if that old bottle of spice you found is still ok to use. Kitchen Q&A: What’s Half & Half Cream? (And [...]
• Kitchen Q&A: What’s The Difference Between Artificial & Pure Vanilla Extract? (And More): Do you know how to tell if a bulb of garlic is fresh or how to keep apple slices from browning? Would you use olive oil in place of vegetable oil when baking? Or do you know what the difference between artificial and pure vanilla extract is? This week’s Kitchen Q&A answers these questions and [...]
• Kitchen Q&A: Can You Freeze Bacon Grease? (And More): Would you freeze bacon grease to keep a steady supply on hand? Or do you know how to convert your favorite cake recipe to cupcakes? What about how to bring eggs to room temperature quickly? This week’s Kitchen Q & A answers these questions and more. Kitchen Q&A: Can You Freeze Bacon Grease? (And More) Can bacon [...]
• Is It Ok To Reuse Cooking Oil? (And More): {Kitchen Q&A}: This week’s Kitchen Q & A tackles questions on reusing cooking oil, if there’s a difference between white and brown eggs, testing the temperature in your oven (and refrigerator), how to darken gravy and more! Kitchen Q&A: Is It Ok To Reuse Cooking Oil? (And More) Is it ok to reuse cooking oil after deep frying? Deep [...]
• Kitchen Q&A: How Much Is A Knob Of Butter? (Plus More): Tipnut’s Kitchen Questions & Answers is a new weekly feature I’ll be running for the next little while. Each week I’ll list a dozen random questions and their answers pertaining to the kitchen (cooking, baking, ingredients, etc.). Some already have full articles of tips on the subject here on Tipnut but it’s a nice way [...]
• 12 Kitchen Tip Quickies: Haven’t had one of these lists for awhile! Here’s a mix of vintage and newer tips from my collection of kitchen tips: You can use water and lemons to steam clean a microwave easily, why not an oven too? Place a shallow pan of water and fresh lemon juice on the middle rack of the oven. [...]
• How To Season Cast Iron Cookware: Here’s how to keep that favorite iron skillet in perfect cooking condition. This tip was originally included with How To Clean Cast Iron Cookware (published August 27, 2007) but moved here to it’s own file. How To Season Cast Iron Cookware Wash and scrub with fine scouring powder to remove its lacquer coating. Rinse and dry it thoroughly [...]
• Homemade Cleaners For The Bathroom {Peppermint}: Homemade Peppermint Shower Scrub 1 cup baking soda 1/4 tsp peppermint essential oil Mix the ingredients then store in a glass mason jar. To use: Sprinkle on a wet sponge and scrub bath and shower walls. Rinse off with water. All-Purpose Cleaner 1 cup distilled water 1/2 cup household vinegar 1/2 tsp liquid castille soap 1/4 tsp Peppermint essential oil Mix ingredients in a spray [...]
• Kitchen Organizing Tip: Steamer Storage: Today’s feature is a clever tip from Martha Stewart with Steamer Storage: Bamboo steamers have holes that let air in and out to cook food uniformly. For just that reason, these containers are also well suited to storing onions, garlic, and shallots, which require ventilation and should not be refrigerated. Place all three in a single [...]
• 25 Vintage Kitchen Tips: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips are from a vintage booklet published in the 1930’s. The Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look back at the shortcuts and advice shared from decades ago. 25 Vintage Kitchen Tips Fat can be removed from hot soup by straining broth through a cloth wrung from cold water. [...]
• Go Go Gadgets: 30 Handy Kitchen Gadget Tips: Use an egg slicer to make uniform slices of more than just hard boiled eggs: You can slice fresh mushrooms, soft fruits (such as strawberries, kiwis, bananas), olives, soft deli cheeses and more. Very handy tool for garnishes! Use a pizza cutter to quickly slice everything from pizzas, fudge, pancakes, french toast, chicken strips and more. [...]
• Cool Kitchen Hack: Crush Garlic With A Rock: Here’s a kitchen tip sent in by Janet that is totally new to me and I think it’s fantastic: Tipnut here’s a tip for crushing garlic that once you try it, you’ll never go back to the method you are now using (I guarantee it). It was taught to me by my mother who was from [...]
• 26 Kitchen Tips: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These kitchen tips are a collection I’ve gathered from a variety of vintage books, cookbooks and magazines from the 1940’s and 1950’s. Many of them are from women who would send in their tips to share with each other, they were quite resourceful back in the day! To keep cheese from getting hard, cut off enough [...]
• Herbs & Spices: Storage Tips Guide: How To Tell If Spices & Herbs Are Good To Use If you have no expiry date listed on the package and you’re not sure when you purchased the seasoning, here are a few tips to help figure out whether or not your herbs and spices are stale or still good to use: Look at the color, [...]
• 20 Handy Quick Tips For The Kitchen: Here’s a mix of handy kitchen tips from Tipnut, other bloggers and from Tipnut readers… Cabbage Rolls Tips: Wash cabbage heads, pat dry then wrap well in plastic and place in freezer a couple days before you plan on making stuffed cabbage rolls. Thaw the cabbage heads in the fridge one full day before preparation. When [...]
• 20 Frugal Kitchen Tips: Save clean carrot scrapings, celery leaves, outer onion layers, vegetable peels and freeze them in a ziploc bag. When you have a soup bone or chicken carcass, throw everything in a pot to make a lovely homemade soup stock. Although fresh ingredients are best for tasty soup, get into the habit of keeping “soup bits” on [...]
• $5 DIY: Cabinet Door Recipe Message Center: Today’s feature is from This Young House with Somebody Put A Cork In Us…: We wanted to create a convenient little bulletin board in the kitchen to keep favorite recipes and meal ideas on hand (and on our mind- anything in a recipe book is so far out of sight that it’s immediately forgotten). But we [...]
• More Kitchen Tip Quickies: How nice! Here’s the latest bunch of kitchen tips sent in by readers to share with everyone, there are several goodies that are new to me. I’ve included the name of the person who submitted them beside each tip (thank you so much!). Kitchen Tip Quickies Just thought I would share this one with folks. I bake [...]
• 14 Kitchen Tip Quickies: How lucky! After last week’s list of readers kitchen tips, a fresh batch of tips have been pouring in over the past week from Tipnut readers–I’m thrilled with the response, thanks to everyone for sharing! I’ve included the name of the person who submitted them beside each tip (thank you!). 14 Kitchen Tip Quickies Your tip suggested thawing [...]
• 15 Kitchen Tip Quickies: Here’s a handy list of kitchen tips sent in by readers over the last few weeks. Each of these were selected because of their usefulness and I’ve included the name of the person who submitted them beside each tip (thank you!). 15 Kitchen Tip Quickies Whole tomatoes can be washed and frozen in containers or plastic bags. [...]
• Kitchen Tip Quickie: Use A Reward Card As A Pot Scrubber: Today’s feature is from My Sister’s Kitchen with this Handy Dandy Kitchen Tip for using store reward cards as stubborn crust busters: Some good things: the cards are free and I seem to have a lot of them. So far, I haven’t even worn out the first one. I’m saving my fingernails. I’m saving my Pyrex [...]
• Kitchen Tip: Safe Cutting Board: Today’s feature is a quick video showing how to keep your cutting board in place so it won’t move around while chopping food: Summary: Chef Pam takes a large sheet of paper towel, lays it on top of the cutting board and pours a bit of water on it. Pat the wet towel on the cutting board [...]