5 Easy Kitchen Hacks You Probably Didn't Know

You’re looking for an online recipe and it states that everything will be done in a matter of 45 minutes. You followed everything in the recipe but you ended up spending an hour or two. That’s totally frustrating especially if your guests are already in your house and you’re still not done with the cooking. The thing is, the person who actually wrote the recipe knew some kitchen hacks to minimize the time spent in cooking. If that person know, then you should also know because kitchen hacks serves a great help especially to busy moms out there. Here are some of the most fascinating kitchen hacks you probably didn't know.

1. Bacon in Oven

Burnt or crumbly, that is basically the result if you fry your bacon. But if you use oven as the means to cook, then you will have an evenly and properly cooked bacon which will eventually taste better. If you go to restaurants, they will serve this kind of bacon to you. Restaurant chefs are actually using oven to cook bacon that’s the reason why their bacon looks perfectly delicious.

2. Faster Way To Soften Butter

Let’s just say that you forgot to unfreeze the butter that you’re going to use for the party. That’s such a common kitchen scenario. Not everyone knows that there’s a faster way to soften butter just for a few minutes. Here’s the trick: Get a glass and heat it up for a few minutes, you can either put it in a hot water or put it in the microwave, anything would do. After that, cover the butter using the glass and presto! You can have a melting butter in a matter of minutes.

3. Peeling Oranges

Oranges are delicious fruits which are bundled with vitamins, especially Vitamin C. Because of that, oranges are consumed with people having colds, flu and a lot more. But if you just like to eating oranges, you certainly need to know this hack. Peeling oranges is just hard and time-consuming not unless you know this trick. Slice a thin part from both sides of an orange. After doing so, cut a perpendicular line but don’t cross it all the way. Open the orange. It will create a long strip and you can now grab each slice with ease.

4. Easily Get Eggshells From The Bowl

Another common scenario in the kitchen. You try to cook egg or you’re preparing to bake something. When you crack the egg open, some eggshells wen to the bowl. Now, you’re starting to get annoyed but don’t be. There’s a very easy hack you certainly need to know on how to remove those eggshells. Just pour some water to your fingers and get the eggshells. Your problem is solved!

5. Peel Garlic in Seconds

Get a container and put the garlic inside. Shake it really hard and after a matter of seconds, open the container and there you’ll see garlic skins separated from its cloves.