7 hacks that will make cooking easier
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: 7 times absurdly handy kitchen hacks.
Those kitchen hacks from last time, you all loved them, it turned out. Well, rest assured because we have more ready for everyone who can't get enough of clever tricks that make your life easier.
I can't promise that the mobile ‘loaded nachos from a chip bag’ will ever be matched, but there are surely tips & tricks here that will make you think: I’ll put my phone down and do this NOW.
1. Reheat your pizza in a frying pan
Admit it, no one really thinks reheating leftover pizza in the microwave is a good idea, even if you have that one handy trick for microwave pizza to go with it. Trust us, in a spacious frying pan, the bottom will definitely be crispier and less soggy than in the microwave.
And not with your pizza cutter in the pan, okay…
2. Peanut butter oatmeal
That last little bit of peanut butter can stay in the jar. Add two tablespoons of oatmeal or oat flakes, milk of your choice, some dried fruit, and shake it up. The next morning, add some fresh fruit and coconut flakes, and your super easy no waste breakfast is ready.
3. Flossing that cheese
That fun cheese wire they use at the cheese shop to cut cheese? You can just do it at home faking with a piece of floss. Not through a super hard crust, of course, but with softer cheeses, you can easily pull a long length of thread without the cheese sticking annoyingly to a knife. Just like with that fun watermelon hack..
4. Make a microwave omelet
Nice lowbrow and easy, such a filled omelet from a big mug. Whisk two or three eggs in a bowl, throw in leftover vegetables and grated cheese, stir, and pour into a large mug or two. One minute on high, stir a bit, another minute, and ping! You’re sitting on the couch or at your desk with this easy peasy savory breakfast.
5. Grape ice cube in your drink
Instead of ice cubes, you can also use frozen grapes to keep juice (or sangria!)cool. No more watery drinks, and especially in the case of sangria, you’ll have a nice boozy grape left to nibble on.
6. Never again sticky cheese
Super annoying, right, when you want to grate cheese roughly on one of those four-sided standing graters; after two grates, everything sticks, and you end up with a sort of cheese butter and total disgust at grating for another second. This often happens with soft yellow and bright orange cheddar (which you need for the tastiest mac ’n’ cheese or for those amazing nachos from a bag). The trick? Spray a tiny bit of baking spray on that grater. You won’t have any issues with the taste or greasiness when that cheese gets melted anyway. Top tip, this.
7. Pizza cutter becomes herb cutter
You can use that pizza cutter (even) more often. So, bring it out when you need to chop fresh herbs. Hold the herbs together in a bunch and just roll the pizza cutter over them from front to back. Ideal! And it saves storage space for a mezzaluna or rocking knife.
