To make a good kitchen, it is not enough to follow to the letter recipes from a book.
It also goes through simple little tricks jealously guarded by our grandmothers for decades.
So if you want to know how to never miss a mayonnaise...
...whip egg whites perfectly or stop crying over an onion...
...discover 50 grandmother's tips and tricks that will change your life in the kitchen. Watch:
To have very compact egg whites or to make a very light whipped cream, it's quite an art!
To succeed every time, do this.
Beat the cream or egg whites slowly at first...
...then, when your ingredients start to foam, increase the speed to maximum speed.
Also remember to add a pinch of baking so that your egg whites succeed every time. Check out the trick here.
Personally, every time I boil water, it boils over all the time!
To prevent this from happening again, follow this grandmother's trick as surprising as it is useful.
While you are boiling your water, place a wooden spoon over the pot. Check out the trick here.
2 times out of 3, the shell of the eggs is broken when they are plunged into boiling water in the pan!
To avoid this, apply this easy grandmother's trick.
Before putting your eggs in boiling water, take a needle and make a small hole above the egg.
To discover: How to Boil an Egg WITHOUT Its Shell Bursting.
To obtain a very fluffy puree, use this grandmother's recipe.
Before combining all the usual amenities (milk, condiment...), add a pinch of baking soda.
Your mash becomes lighter and without lumps in it. Check out the trick here.
Having trouble grating your vegetables?
They still cling to your utensil and it gives a poor result?
So follow this grandmother's recipe to make it easier for you.
To make your vegetables slide perfectly, simply pour a little oil on your grater.
You will feel a real difference in the cut. As a result, you save time and it's much easier.
Successfully cooking rice is not so easy.
Very often, we tend to let it overcook, which makes it almost inedible.
Before you throw away and waste your rice, catch it using this grandma's recipe.
Rinse the rice with cold water to remove excess starch.
Put it in a colander to remove the water then heat it in a pan over low heat. Check out the trick here.
A homemade mayonnaise, how good!
But not so easy to do when you don't have the hand. So how do I do it?
What makes the difference is to master the chemical reaction that turns the liquid ingredients (oil, egg yolk) into a thick sauce.
To achieve this, first take a mixer with as many branches as possible, pour in the oil little by little and beat your ingredients vigorously!
The idea is to separate the oil molecules from each other.
The more you separate them, the more space they take up, the more your sauce consolidates!
Remember to take out all your ingredients before preparing your mayo so that they are at room temperature. Check out the trick here.
Covering a chocolate cake with English cream, I love that.
Be careful, however, that the pleasure is not spoiled by the formation of lumps!
It often happens if you have overcooked your cream!
If it still happens, then apply this trick from grandmother.
Fill an empty plastic bottle with your topping and shake vigorously.
After a few minutes, your liquid will be very fluid.
A salad that has been stored too long can become stale, making it look unappetizing.
To make it look crunchy again, just do this.
Immerse your salad in a container filled with sugar water and leave to act for about an hour.
Your salad will then regain all its crunchy texture. And it also works with ice cubes.
A tip made for gourmets who can't do without a good whipped cream for dessert.
To always succeed in making whipped cream, place the bowl and the whisk in the freezer for 10 minutes.
By doing this, you will obtain a more airy and firmer whipped cream.
Why ? Because the cold allows the fat in the cream to fill more easily with air.
To discover: Homemade whipped cream? My Unmissable Recipe!
A grandmother's trick you've always wanted to know about cooking butter.
How do you not burn or blacken this ingredient when you heat it up?
This is important, because butter does not withstand high temperatures well.
Well, just pour a drizzle of oil in the bottom of your pan...
...the piece of butter then rises in temperature, but without burning and without blackening! Check out the trick here.
Spinach leaves quickly lose their bright green color and your product looks faded.
To keep that bright color given by chlorophyll pigmentation, boil your baby spinach in sparkling water.
This grandmother's recipe gives a striking result.
Shortcrust pastry, puff pastry, pie dough... it's always the same problem when they are homemade.
They still stick to the rolling pin when you roll it out! To avoid this very annoying phenomenon, do this.
Place a sheet of baking paper on the table, place your ball of dough on it and cover with another baking sheet.
All you have to do is pass the rolling pin over the baking sheet.
With that, no more headaches, you can evenly spread your dough. Check out the trick here.
If you're tired of crying like a madeleine as soon as you peel an onion, apply this grandmother's trick.
Before slicing, put the onion in your freezer for 10 min.
You can also put it in a basin of cold water that you will keep cool for 30 min.
Thanks to this trick, your onion will be anesthetized and will not be able to let go of its gas. Check out the trick here.
To discover: The 7 Best Ways to Peel Onions Without Crying.
A pastry piping bag is super practical for finishing your favorite cakes, except that you don't often have them at home.
If this is your case, don't panic, we'll explain how to do it.
Just take a freezer bag and cut one of the corners with scissors.
To make it easier to use your homemade piping bag, don't make the hole too big. Check out the trick here.
A lawyer, how good is that! The problem is that it turns black very very quickly if you don't eat it right away.
And it makes it look rotten...
To avoid this, apply this grandmother's recipe.
Simply pour a few drops of lemon over the flesh of the avocado.
By doing this, you will avoid oxidation of your fruit. Check out the trick here.
For successful boiled eggs, it is not enough to respect a cooking time of 3 min.
Because as soon as the eggs are out of the water, they continue to cook for a little longer!
For a perfect result, take your eggs out of boiling water and immediately plunge them into ice water.
To discover: Here is the Cooking Time For a Hard-boiled, Boiled, Soft-boiled and Poached Egg.
When honey is stored for a long time, it may crystallize.
To regain its original fluid texture, follow this grandmother's recipe.
Place the honey in a bain-marie in a saucepan and wait for it to melt.
Then pour it into a container wrapped in a cloth to avoid the difference in temperature with the bain-marie. Check out the trick here.
You can also put it in the microwave for 30 seconds.
Can't rise bread dough properly? Despite your best efforts, the dough does not rise?
We tell you how to always succeed with this grandmother's recipe.
Put your dough in a bowl and cover it with a damp cloth.
Then place the bowl near a radiator or in a hot oven at 30°C protected from drafts. Check out the trick here.
To make succulent, plump and tender madeleines, follow this grandmother's recipe.
Pour the dough into a suitable mold and put it in the fridge.
Then bake for about 10 minutes following your classic recipe.
Thanks to the thermal shock, you will obtain a well rounded dough on top.
When you make a cake with pieces of fruit or chocolate, it's always the same story...
...They inevitably arise at the bottom of the preparation. To avoid this, do the following.
Put your pieces in a freezer bag with a little flour and shake it well so that the fruit or chocolate is well covered.
Wipe off the excess flour around the pieces and introduce them into the dough.
The flour helps to retain the ingredients and prevent them from ending up at the bottom of the cake. Check out the trick here.
Not good at cooking red meat? Is it either too hard or too dry?
Don't despair, we tell you how to do it with this grandmother's trick.
After cooking your meat, place it for a few minutes in a dish with aluminum foil on it.
This allows the meat to soak up the juices better and therefore become more tender and juicy.
But how do butchers always brown their chicken well and have that good grilled taste?
It's actually not hard to do! Follow the guide.
During cooking, pour a little sparkling water over your chicken.
The minerals present in sparkling water ensure better cooking while making the meat more tender.
A good caramel topping is really delicious.
But not everyone can achieve this sweet topping perfectly.
To never miss it, apply this grandmother's recipe.
While the caramel is cooking, pour a few drops of lemon on it.
This prevents it from being too fluid and inconsistent at the end of cooking.
Why ? Because the lemon allows the sugar not to solidify.
Your bellows fall back as soon as they come out of the oven?
Are you looking for a recipe that finally keeps them well rounded after cooking?
You will find your happiness by reading this grandmother's tip.
During preparation, add a teaspoon of cornstarch to the egg whites once well beaten and firm.
This makes the texture lighter.
When you cook onions, you often get a little burnt filling.
If you finally want to know how to blanch your onions without browning them too much, follow this trick.
First mix the onions with a good amount of water in the bottom of a casserole.
Then, sauté for 20 to 30 minutes with the lid closed.
For successful preparation, cooking must be done over very low heat, stirring occasionally.
Salt to taste afterwards.
Reheating a piece of pie in the microwave softens the dough terribly and it's not terrible to eat.
However, you have no other way, because you do not have an oven? We will give you an alternative.
Put your slice of pie, puff pastry or pizza in a pan and heat over low heat with the lid on.
Miracle, the dough remains crispy! Check out the trick here.
Breaking squares of chocolates is a real ordeal! It is true that this ingredient is super hard and difficult to cut.
So to avoid breaking your hand at each attempt, we give you a grandmother's tip.
Place your tablet in a tea towel and tap it vigorously with a wooden spoon.
You will get plenty of chocolate chunks without getting tired.
Do you want to know how to make your lasagna no longer have a too liquid texture?
Apply this grandmother's recipe.
When making your sauce, simply add a beaten egg to it.
Your preparation will then be much firmer and will have a perfect consistency. Check out the trick here.
Some sauce preparations sometimes give a pungent, acidic or too spicy taste.
To rebalance your sauce, adopt this grandmother's recipe.
Pour a spoonful of honey or put a piece of sugar in your accompaniment.
Thus, the sauce will find a taste harmony.
Are you a fan of chicory except that their bitterness puts you off a little?
We'll give you Grandma's recipe so you can keep eating it.
The trick is simply to cook them twice in water!
Thanks to this little trick, you remove the acidity of endives and give them a better taste. Check out the trick here.
Are your stuffed tomatoes super soft and runny when you finish preparing them?
It's probably because of too much water. Indeed, tomatoes are full of water!
To remove excess water, pour salt inside the tomatoes, place them upside down and let drain for 1 hour.
You will only have to cook them and you will see the difference. The salt will have had its effect. Check out the trick here.
Have you always wondered how to properly season your red meat?
Not sure when to add the main condiments?
Follow the guide we tell you how to do it.
Regarding pepper, never pour it during cooking otherwise it will burn in your pan.
Salt can be added before and during cooking as it enhances the flavours.
For all other spices, always season your meat after cooking and not before.
Want to know when your oil is at the right temperature so it's neither too hot nor too cold?
Throw a kernel of corn into the puddle of oil.
When it explodes, the temperature is right and your oil is good for cooking food.
When you make a fruit pie, do you often have your dough that becomes soft?
This phenomenon is due to the fact that the fruits release all the water during cooking.
To avoid this, apply this grandmother's recipe.
Sprinkle your dough with cassava starch better known as tapioca.
By doing this, you will keep a crispy batter even with waterlogged fruit. Check out the trick here.
Your dressing is a little too sour, because you put too much vinegar in your mixture?
Does it make your salad taste sour?
Before throwing it away, do this to get your salad back.
At the bottom of the salad bowl, place a ball of bread and stir your sauce.
The sliced bread sucks up the excess vinegar and rebalances your accompaniment.
Your lemon isn't quite ripe yet and you can't extract all of its juice?
No need to wait 1 week before it matures, because a simple solution exists!
Either you roll it under the palm of your hand on your work surface, or you put it for 1 min in your microwave oven.
In both cases, you will obtain a much more malleable fruit ready to offer its juice.
To discover: 8 Tricks To Get The MAXIMUM Juice From A Lemon Effortlessly.
The secret to Béarnaise sauce is not to overcook the eggs during preparation.
And that's not so easy to do!
If, despite all the efforts made, your eggs have still overcooked, make up for them with this simple grandmother's recipe.
In a second saucepan, add a spoonful of cold water and gently stir in your preparation.
You then find a rehydrated texture and a delicious sauce.
Gingerbread is super good; except when it is very dry!
So to keep it always moist, follow this grandmother's recipe.
When baking gingerbread in the oven, add a bowl of water next to it.
Once finished, take your bread with gloves and surround the complement of plastic film so that the water does not dissipate.
This trick also works to rehydrate cookies that are too dry.
Over time, the radishes soften and become much less crunchy.
You then tell yourself that they are no longer good and that you must throw them in the trash.
Don't do that anymore! We tell you how to save them easily!
Simply immerse the radishes for a few hours in a large container filled with cold water and white vinegar.
You will find them quite crunchy.
This trick works globally with all vegetables and raw vegetables. Check out the trick here.
Wondering why you can't keep a sausage whole when cooking?
Whatever you do, it breaks up after a few minutes?
To avoid this phenomenon, there is an easy grandmother's trick.
The trick is to pre-cook the sausages for 15 minutes over low heat (no more than 80°C) in a pan of water with the lid on.
Once this is done, you can then grill the sausage in a pan. It will remain in one piece. Check out the trick here.
Cooking lentils takes hours without being sure of the result.
Very often, they remain hard as concrete and very grainy.
If you want to know how to finally tame these starches, apply this grandmother's recipe.
Simply add baking soda to the cooking water.
Thanks to this method, you will not only reduce the cooking time of the lentils, but they will also be much lighter to digest.
A lemon meringue pie is just delicious when done well.
Except that very often, the meringue on top is as soft as the lemon stuffing!
If you finally want to get a consistent and light meringue at the same time, follow this grandmother's trick.
Simply add 50 g of icing sugar per beaten egg (3 eggs =150 g).
Before eating it, put your meringue pie in the oven and cook for 30 minutes.
Getting our children to eat cauliflower or salsify is already complicated.
But that becomes downright impossible when the vegetables turn yellow during cooking.
To avoid this natural phenomenon and give yourself every chance against children, apply this grandmother's trick.
To keep your vegetables white, pour a tablespoon of flour into the cooking water.
This will prevent the coloring from rotating.
With pancakes, it's always the same story.
They are succulent right out of the pan, except that once cooled, they tend to dry out a bit...
So if you want to keep them soft and always warm, follow this grandmother's tip.
Bring a pot of boiling water to a boil.
Once done, turn off the heat and place a plate on it, adding your pancakes one by one.
Lay a plate upside down to cover everything and keep pancakes warm and fluffy for a snack or dinner. Check out the trick here.
When it comes to making rice, we often go to the ladle for quantities.
Except that in the end, you always end up with twice as much rice as you need.
So to know from now on what capacity you need exactly, follow this simple little trick.
Do not count more than 60 g of rice per person. This corresponds to a small glass filled.
This amount is enough to feed your guests well.
It's Sunday and you've decided to have a cake afternoon with the children.
Everyone is delighted except that during the preparation, you realize as usual that you have no more baking powder!
Don't panic, we tell you how to replace this ingredient so you don't run to all the stores to find it.
Simply replace the baking powder with baking soda.
The result will be just as conclusive, because sodium bicarbonate is a natural leavening agent. Check out the trick here.
Avocados, you never really know when they are ready to taste.
If you come across a hard avocado that isn't quite ripe yet, we'll explain how to consume it quickly.
Put it in a bag next to a banana overnight. The next day, you can eat it without any problem.
If you want to devour it right away, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Check out the trick here.
There is a mistake that everyone makes when trying to melt chocolate in a double boiler.
The bowl where your chocolate is placed should not be in direct contact with boiling water.
What you need to do is place a large bowl with the chocolate in it over a small saucepan filled with boiling water.
Thus, it is the water vapor that melts your chocolate and not the boiling water.
When cooking moist vegetables in a pan filled with hot oil, you can be sure of the result.
You'll have oil splatters everywhere and a greasy stovetop when you arrive.
To avoid this phenomenon and save a good cleaning, use this grandmother's trick.
Before you add your oil to the pan, just put a pinch of salt in it.
You will be amazed at the result. Check out the trick here.
