Kitchen Tips and Tricks For You

By Sneha

Saturday, May 26, 2012, 10:58

Are you a beginner in the kitchen? Even if you are a cooking expert or not, you might encounter several issues regarding the cooking process and the storage of food. In case you are unable to find some useful cooking tips and tricks, there is no need to worry! We give you some very useful cooking tips and tricks to win your daily war with frying pans and vegetables in the kitchen.

Keep 8-10 black pepper seeds in mustard or any other edible oil so that it doesn't get a stale odour after a few weeks.
Keep 3-4 clove pieces in the sugar container to prevent the ants from entering the container.
Roast pulses before storing them in the containers. This prevents the insects from eating the pulses and also avoids fungal formation.
To keep coriander leaves fresh in the refrigerator, store them in a plastic container.
Add some salt as soon as the oil in frying pan starts heating up. The oil spills will reduce to minimum.
Drop a Vitamin C tablet or a tsp of cornflour into milk if you want to make curd out of it. The curd will be very thick in consistency.
Wash an apple in salt water after cutting it. The fruit will look fresh whenever you serve it.
Soak chicken or mutton liver in milk for 15-20 minutes before cooking. It will not only be soft but very tasty too.
To store the maximum food value, drop a few drops of tamarind extract in it.
Drop a pinch of salt in burnt milk. Most of its burning smell will reduce.
Add a pinch of salt and a few drops of vinegar while boiling eggs to prevent them from cracking.
Before you cut a cake, dip the knife in cold water for sometime. If you cut the cake with this knife, your cake will not cut unevenly.
In order to keep salt free from lumps during monsoon, tightly wrap rice in a small piece of cotton or muslin cloth. Drop it in the salt container.
Pickles often develop fungus. To save it from fungal formation, wrap few mustard seeds in a small cotton or muslin cloth and dip it inside the pickle jar with a clean and dry spoon. Always use clean and dry spoon to take out pickle and store pickle in air-tight jars.
If you do not like to peel garlic, you can store them! Peel the garlic cloves and coat them with a bit of salt and vinegar. Refrigerate it. It will stay fresh for a long period of time.
To keep the fish fresh in your fridge, wash off raw fish or meat well and let it dry completely. Then keep it in a plastic bag inside the refrigerator.

These are a few cooking tips and tricks that can be of great help in the day to day cooking. These cooking tips if practised, can make cooking and other related issues much simpler. If you know any more cooking tips, share with us.