Food Fare's "Kitchen & Cooking Tips" pages contain a multitude of tips collected and used over the years. They really work! Some of the tips come from Appetizing Muse, while others have been provided by readers, as well as Jenna Rose ("Household Hints"), Pamela Gross ("How to Clean Anything!"), and other print or online sources (which are noted). The tips are broken down by categories, hopefully making them easier to navigate.
General Tips | Cleaning | Cooking & Preparation | Eggs
Food Storage | Freezing | Fruits & Nuts | Grilling
GENERAL:
Improve Cheap Tomato Juice: To improve the taste of inexpensive tomato juice, pour the can into a pitcher and add one chopped green onion, and a cut-up stalk of celery.
Leak-Proof Ice Cream Cones: Before scooping ice cream into a cone, try placing a mini-marshmallow or upside down Hershey's kiss in the bottom to prevent leaking when ice cream starts to melt.
Prolonging Spatula Use: To rejuvenate your old spatula, trim off the tattered rubber edges. This should be good for a few more rounds in the frying pan.
Removing Silk from Corn Cobs: A dampened paper towel or terry cloth brushed downward on a cob of corn will remove strands of corn silk.
Sharpen Garbage Disposal Blades: To sharpen the blades of a garbage disposal, simply run the disposal with a few ice cubes thrown in.
Silky Cake Frosting: To give the frosting on cake a silken look, spread the frosting as you normally would and then use a hair dryer to blow dry the frosted surface of the cake. The slight melt of the frosting gives a smooth, lustrous appearance.
Using a Melon Baller: You obviously use a melon baller to scoop out the flesh from melons, but you can also use it to make cookies or shape meat balls. When making cookies, use the melon baller to form your cookie dough instead of using a cookie cutter, and drop the dough from the melon baller onto your cookie sheet. The melon baller also shapes cute mini-meatballs.
Using a Melon Baller #2: A melon baller can also be used when coring and slicing apples; use the baller to scoop out the seeds. Tip from Gene Ha.
Uses for Baking Soda: Baking soda is inexpensive, but it has a convenient array of uses. Brush your teeth with it; set an open box of baking soda in your fridge to absorb odors; use it to scrub counters, microwaves, ovens, pots and pans; wipe down your cutting board, coffee pot and tea pot; pour baking soda down drains and disposals to help with the smells.
Uses for Coffee Can Lids: If you live where it snows, you can use the plastic lid from a coffee can as a car window scraper to remove winter frost.
Uses for Leftover Wine: Don't discard leftover wine - freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.
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