Do you remember those little cooking tips your grand- mother ?
We may call them "grandmother's tricks", but they are still as effective today.
Indeed, most of these little tricks have been practiced for several generations — like they really work!
Without further ado, discover 50 super kitchen hacks tested and approved:
1. To remove bad odors from your hands after cutting onions or garlic, rub them with a stainless steel spoon. The stainless steel will absorb bad odors.
2. To remove bad odors from your hands, you can also rub them with coffee beans.
3. To make up for an overly salty soup, add a peeled potato to the pan. The potato will absorb the salt. Click here to discover the trick.
4. When preparing hard-boiled eggs, add a pinch of salt to the pan to prevent the shell from cracking.
5. Do not put your citrus fruits and tomatoes in the refrigerator. Low temperatures take away the aroma and taste of these delicate fruits.
6. Do not wash your cast iron cookware with dishwashing liquid. Instead, rub cast iron dishes with a little salt poured on a dry paper towel.
7. Does boiled milk go sour? It's an old misconception that is... completely wrong. If you left your milk boiling by accident, don't worry:it's safe to drink.
8. To descale your electric kettle, boil a mixture of water and vinegar (in equal parts). Then empty the kettle and the lime deposits. Click here to discover the trick.
9. To avoid bad odors in empty Tupperware, add a pinch of salt.
10. If your gravy has burned, pour it into a clean saucepan. Then, continue cooking by adding a little sugar. Keep adding sugar, always in small doses, until the sugar neutralizes the burnt taste.
11. Did you burn your rice?
Put bread crumbs on the rice for 5 to 10 min. This will absorb the burnt taste. But be careful not to serve the burnt rice that's at the bottom of your pan.
12. Before cutting chili peppers, rub some vegetable oil on your hands. This will prevent your skin from absorbing the active ingredient in the peppers.
13. If you're not sure if an egg is still good, dip it in a tall glass of water. If the egg remains at the bottom, it is still good to eat. If only a tip of the egg touches the bottom, it is no longer very fresh and should be eaten quickly. If the egg floats, it is expired. Click here to discover the trick.
14. To keep ants away from your kitchen, follow the column of ants to see where they enter your kitchen. Then, apply Vaseline to plug the hole through which they enter. Ants cannot pass through Vaseline.
If ants are entering your kitchen from under a door, draw a thick chalk line. Ants hate chalk and won't cross that line. Click here to discover the trick.
15. Before making popcorn, soak the corn kernels in water for 10 minutes. Then, drain the kernels and prepare your popcorn as usual. This allows the corn to pop faster. Plus, it leaves fewer unpopped kernels of corn.
16. Separate your bananas to keep them longer. Most people buy their bananas whole. Instead of keeping your bananas all hung together, separate them. The ideal is to keep them far from each other.
Why ? Because bananas give off a gas that ripens other fruits and also other bananas. By separating them, they keep much longer. Click here to discover the trick.
17. Prevent your potatoes from sprouting by placing an apple in the middle of the bag you store them in. Click here to discover the trick.
18. Put your leftover wine in the freezer in ice cube trays. Later, you can use these wine ice cubes for your sauces and to give body to your small dishes. Click here to discover the trick.
19. Use two Alka-Seltzer tablets to clean the inside of vases and jugs. The bubbles will do all the work for you.
20. Use pasta or potato cooking water to water your houseplants.
Just wait for the water to cool. Your plants will love it because the cooking water contains nutrients that are beneficial to plant health. Click here to discover the trick.
21. Use your aquarium water to water houseplants. When you clean your aquarium, do not throw away the water. Fish droppings are high in nitrogen and phosphorus — essential elements that make excellent fertilizer for your plants.
22. Pour a little white vinegar over the meat to defrost it faster. This will tenderize the meat and significantly reduce defrosting time.
23. The active agent in onions that makes you cry is located in the root of the bulb. Remove this part of the onion with your knife, making a tapered pyramid-shaped cut. Click here to discover the trick.
24. Removing the first layer of the onion can also save you from crying.
25. Toothpaste is an excellent cleaner for silver utensils. Click here to discover the trick.
26. If baking soda isn't effective enough at absorbing bad odors from your refrigerator, try activated charcoal. There is nothing more powerful to deodorize bad smells from your fridge. To buy now, we recommend this activated carbon.
27. Baking soda is extremely effective for cleaning the house. Use it with white vinegar to deodorize drains and clean stoves and sinks. Click here to discover the trick.
28. One of grandma's best tricks:cut your finger while cooking? Wait until the cut is no longer bleeding. And apply a layer of clear nail polish on the cut. This will prevent the cut from becoming infected. In addition, unlike plasters, the varnish does not fall into the bolognese sauce!
29. There are several tricks to prevent brown sugar from hardening. Here are 3 effective solutions used by grandmothers:a slice of apple, a piece of bread or a shard of terracotta.
30. Got a splinter from your wooden kitchen utensils?
Apply a piece of tape to the affected area. Then, remove the piece of tape to extract the splinter. You can also use this trick here.
31. When you burn yourself in the kitchen, apply mustard to the affected area. Leave it on for a few minutes:the mustard will relieve pain and prevent blisters from forming on your skin. Click here to discover the trick.
32. If your aluminum pans have tarnished, just boil some apple peels in them. It'll make the metal shine — and your home will smell good, too.
33. Keep your little cookies fresh longer by adding balled-up tissues to the bottom of the container you store them in.
34. Prevent your salt from forming lumps by adding a few grains of rice to your salt shaker to absorb the moisture. Click here to discover the trick.
35. Remove fruit stains from your fingers by rubbing them with a peeled potato. It also works with white vinegar.
36. Keep your salad longer by wrapping it in paper towels. Then, put the salad and paper towel in a freezer bag in the refrigerator. Click here to discover the trick.
37. To prevent your bread from going stale, add a stalk of celery to the bag you store your bread in. This retains the taste of fresh bread and its soft texture. Click here to discover the trick.
38. Always have an aloe vera plant in your home. Aloe vera is essential for small cuts and burns in the kitchen. Just cut a leaf and apply the gel to the affected area. Click here to discover the trick.
39. When you put too much fat in a soup or dish, add an ice cube. Grease will naturally accumulate around the ice cube. Then use a tablespoon or ladle to extract the fat. Click here to discover the trick.
40. Do you want to reuse cooking oil without the taste of the food you cooked in it? Fry a small piece of ginger (8 mm) in edible oil. The ginger will absorb all the tastes and odors of the oil.
41. If your milk goes sour before you can finish it, add a pinch of salt to the bottle as soon as you open it.
This will help the milk stay fresh longer.
42. Water that has been boiled and cooled freezes faster than tap water. This can be especially useful when you're hosting a party at home and need ice cubes quickly.
43. Remove tea or coffee stains from your porcelain. Just use a paste made from baking soda, squeezed lemon juice and cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate). Rub the stains with this paste to make them disappear easily. To buy now, we recommend this cream of tartar.
44. To unstick 2 glasses stuck together, there is a little easy trick. Put ice cubes in the top glass and dip the bottom glass in hot water. The hot glass will expand and the cold glass will contract — you can now separate the 2 glasses easily. Click here to discover the trick.
45. For inaccessible splinters under the nail, put bread crumbs in a bowl of milk. Dip your finger in the bowl, it will easily extract the splinter.
46. Did you know that Coke relieves stomach pain? Indeed, it is a particularly effective remedy. The sugar and gas from coke can relieve many intestinal disorders — but they can also aggravate other disorders. Click here to discover the trick.
47. Apply bacon to a boil to “absorb the poison”.
48. Unjam old drawers (without slides) by rubbing a candle on the bottom of the drawer sides. Click here to discover the trick.
49. Apply a cotton ball soaked in white vinegar on the bruises. White vinegar makes bruises go away faster. Click here to discover the trick.
50. Drink cranberry juice or eat blueberries to avoid UTIs. Click here to discover the trick.
And you ? Do you know any other grandmother's cooking hacks? Share them with us in the comments. We can't wait to read you! :-)
