Cooking doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Fortunately for these people, there are tons of cooking tips on the internet. If you are the type to eat out every night because you don’t have time to prepare your food or simply because you hate cooking, there are ways to help you make to most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Peeling foods is one of the main things that prevent bad cooks from saving money by eating a few meals a week at home.
Fortunately, there are many fun, simple and foolproof ways to save a lot of time when it comes to preparing dinner in the comfort of your own home. If you are ready to give it a try, have a look at these clever tricks. Here are 6 cooking tips that we believe will make you a more time effective cook as well as just an all-around more useful person in a kitchen.
1. Boiled egg
- To peel a boiled egg, grab a Mason jar filled with little water and put the egg in.
- Cover the top with your hand and shake well.
- Get the egg out of the jar.
- You will be able to remove the shell without much difficulty.
2. Garlic
- Fill a Mason jar full of garlic cloves.
- Close the jar and shake it.
- The cloves will be separated. Remove the skin and put them back in your jar.
- Put the lid back on your jar and shake once again vigorously.
- Most garlic cloves skin will have been peeled off.
3. Kiwi
- Separate your kiwi in half.
- With a glass squeeze your kiwi against the rim to remove its skin.
- You can also trip this trick on a mango.
4. Banana
- Grab a banana and a sewing needle.
- Take your needle, tuck it into one of the corners of your banana and slide it inside, going from left to right.
- Repeat 1 inch lower, an another inch lower until you reach the bottom of your banana.
- By peeling your fruit, you will see that it will already be sliced!
- Now hand over your banana to a friend and ask them to peel it. The banana will already be cut in slices, ready to be eaten.
5. Bell pepper
- Cut the top and the bottom of your pepper.
- Insert your knife in and move your pepper in a clockwise motion to separate it from the seeds.
- Sliced the rest of your vegetables.
6. Potatoes
- Cook completly your potatoes in water.
- Put them in a bowl of ice water for 5-10 seconds.
- Finaly, peel away the skin with your finger.
7. Watch an extra cooking trick in the video below.
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