7 Essential Kitchen Tips Few Know About

Useful life hacks for those who cook and eat. Learn how to peel an onion without crying, how to keep an avocado half nice and fresh, how to get rid of scale and quickly peel citrus fruits.

Useful life hacks for those who cook and eat. Learn how to peel an onion without crying, how to keep an avocado half nice and fresh, how to get rid of scale and quickly peel citrus fruits.

If your cupronickel and silver cutlery has lost its former glory, do not be upset, and even more so, do not rush to throw them away. Every experienced housewife knows that if you boil them in a concentrated decoction of garlic husks, then the cutlery will again acquire shine and become clean.

 

Any housewife has heard the expression "only onions are worthy of my tears!", And only an inexperienced one believes in it. Nobody and nothing deserves your tears. Remember a very simple rule: before peeling or cutting onions, put them in cold water for a few minutes or in the freezer for 5 minutes. Also, while cutting onions, the knife should be washed more often, then the onion oil will not irritate your eyes.

 

A kitchen sponge collects a large number of germs, so it is advisable to change it as often as possible. But don't change it after every wash, right? As a preventive measure, after each use, simply place it briefly in the microwave to disinfect.

 

Onions and garlic are frequent guests in the kitchen, and everyone knows how hard it is to get rid of the unpleasant smell of these products on the hands. But there is one tricky way. The recipe is very simple - wipe your hands with lemon or soda, then rinse them under running water. 

 

Quite often we are faced with such a problem as scale. With each brewing, the electric heating element becomes more and more overgrown with it and threatens to break the kettle. There is a very simple way to get rid of scale. Pour one part vinegar and one part water into it, then boil the mixture, and the scale is gone!

 

This tip will help you peel citrus fruits easily and quickly. Put the fruit in the microwave for half a minute. You will not only peel fruits in seconds, you will also squeeze much more juice out of them! This is verified by personal experience. Slightly stewed fruit will retain all the vitamins and will not change the taste at all.

 

If you love avocados, check out the following tip. Many in the morning eat only half an avocado, and leave the other for later. "Then" gives us a darkened and unattractive fruit. There is a way out: put a quarter of an ordinary onion in a container with avocado. It will remain fresh and appetizing.