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

1. Just thought I would share this one with folks. I bake a lot around the holidays, but not so much the rest of the year. As a result I always have old spices left over and have to buy new to bake. I use the old ones when I clean house to simmer on the stove while I’m working. There’s nothing like your house smelling like baking spices when you get done with the cleaning and don’t have the smell of cleaners everywhere! (Melissa). (For recipe ideas, see Fragrant Home: 13 Simmering Pot Recipes).
2. You have probably already had this one submitted but just in case, an easy way to chop hardboiled eggs for egg salad, potato salad, etc. is to use a pastry blender. The wire one works just as well as a bladed one. (Mary Ann)
3. For an easy way to “cook” lasagna noodles, put them in a pan of very hot tap water while completing the rest of the recipe. They will be soft and pliable when you are ready to start layering them with the sauce, etc. I usually make my lasagna the day before and keep overnight in the fridge to reheat the next day. Flavor is wonderful. (Pat)
4. Don’t shuck corn. Just put on microwave safe plate, and microwave. When cooked, remove outside shuck and then grasp the corn silks with your fingertips and gently pull. The silks will come off easily. (Margaret). (More tips How To Remove Corn From The Cob).
5. Keep a supply of kitchen trash can liners in the bottom of your trash can. When you lift out the full bag, the new ones are right there, saves the extra steps to get a liner from the cupboard. Do the same for small bathroom liners (we use plastic grocery store bags for bathroom liners). (Joe)
6. When breading chicken pieces, first coat with mayonnaise instead of egg then dredge in crumb coating. Delicious! (Melanie)
7. Sometimes kitchen odors can linger (especially when cooking cabbage and onions). I set out a small bowl of ammonia on the kitchen table and go to bed. When we get up in the morning, the smells are all gone. (Holly)
8. Plastic crates are excellent storage cubes for the deep freeze, they keep food sorted neatly and they’re easy to shuffle around. We have a very large freezer that came with only two baskets and I found the plastic crates to be a big help. They hold up very well in the cold. (Dianne)
9. I use a potato masher to mash ground beef while it’s browning. It’s a time saver because the beef separates and cooks up quickly. (Joanne)
10. Drop a teaspoonful of peanut butter in the bottom of each muffin pan then add muffin batter and bake. The peanut butter adds a nutty flavor to the muffin. (Cheryl)
11. Remove the smell of garlic from hands by rubbing your fingers over a stainless steel spoon. I don’t know how it works, but it does! (Jean)
12. Coat greased loaf pans with a layer of cinnamon sugar then pour in batter for banana bread and top with more cinnamon sugar. A very tasty addition that my kids love! (Barbara)
13. My friend taught me this tip: Add onion skins to the water when boiling eggs, this turns the shells a tint of brown. When stored in the refrigerator, you’ll know at a glance which eggs are hard boiled and which aren’t. The flavor of the eggs aren’t affected at all. (Sarah)
14. Save onion peels for the bbq, toss on the hot coals and they’ll give extra flavor to the food that’s grilling. (Kenneth)

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