Kitchen Hacks Part II

Hello! I hope last week’s Kitchen Hacks was helpful! When I discovered these tips and tricks in the kitchen, I was blown away! These ideas are ways to make your time in the kitchen easier and more fun, so make the most of them!

1.     To prevent a flour cloud from coating your counter when using a stand mixer, drape a very damp, clean towel over the mixer, shielding the bowl from view.

2.     Don’t like when you pour liquid out of a bottle and it runs down the side of the bottle, making it sticky?  Wrap a band of paper towel around the bottle and secure with a rubber band. The paper towel catches the drips, and you can just discard it when it gets dirty!

3.     Have a big pot of threateningly hot boiling liquid? To prevent it from continuing to heat, you can move it off the hot burner onto another one, but if you throw a couple ice cubes in, you can drop the temperature quickly enough that the boiling stops fairly quickly and the ice cubes won’t dilute the taste too much.

4.     To get the residual soft, sticky cheese off your cheese grater after use, rub hard, stale bread crust over the dirty grater to remove most of the cheese. Rinse with hot, soapy water and you’re all set!

5.     Sometimes a small zester/grater with all its small grates can be hard to clean, but a toothbrush can get in there and clean it off well for you!