Best Cooking Hints and Tips

Best cooking hints and tips are the foremost requirements to manage your kitchen with perfection. Various cooking tips, you have been followed via your Mom or other family members. Today, i am interested to share my personal experiences of managing kitchen that is also my best practice and which i intended to convey to my dear readers.

1. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking. 
2. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky. 
3. If you are making gravy and accidentally burn it, just pour it into a clean pan and continue cooking it. Add sugar or milk to adjust the taste. The sugar will cancel out the burned taste. 
4. When cooking any kind of strawberry dessert, add a splash of aged Balsamic vinegar to the recipe to enhance the flavor of the strawberries.
5. To hull strawberries, use a sturdy plastic straw. Push it up through the bottom of the strawberry and through the top. It does a great job quickly and neatly. The berries look excellent if you want to leave them whole.
6. For a different flavor and less fat, use chicken stock instead of butter or milk when whipping up mashed potatoes.
7. Create your own colored sugar by placing granulated sugar in a plastic bag. Add a few drops of your favorite food coloring and shake to blend. Pour out into a plate and let dry, then use.
8. Try using raw spaghetti instead of toothpicks when securing stuffed chicken breasts and meats. It works great and it's edible. 
9. Ground spices really should be replaced every 6 months or so! Unless you know you will use them up fairly quickly, buy a bottle in partnership with a friend and split the contents. You'll each benefit from fresh spices.
10. Instead of the water your recipe calls for, try juices, bullion, or water you've cooked vegetables in. Instead of milk, try buttermilk, yogurt or sour cream. It can add a whole new flavor and improve nutrition.
11. When browning ground meat, brown several pounds and drain. Divide evenly in freezer containers and freeze. Unthaw in microwave for quick fixing next time.
12. Marshmallows won't dry out when frozen.
13. Fresh eggs shells are rough and chalky; old eggs are smooth and shiny.
14. Add a little lemon and lime to tuna to add zest and flavor to tuna sandwiches. Use cucumbers soaked in vinegar and pepper in sandwich instead of tomatoes. Use mustard instead of mayo to cut the fat and add a tang.
15. Steak Sauce With A Kick: Deglaze your frying pan (after searing your New York steaks) with brandy. Add two tablespoons of butter, a little white wine and a splash of Grand Marnier. Serve over steaks - you'll never use steak sauce again.
16. When baking and you need to "cut in" the butter, an easy way is to keep the sticks of butter in the freezer. When needed, use a cheese grater to grate the butter into fine pieces.
17. To get snowy white potatoes, add a teaspoon of vinegar or fresh lemon juice to the boiling water.
18. When making potato salad, add the dressing to warm potatoes for the best flavor. Once cooled, the potatoes will not absorb the dressing as well.
19. Slide a strand of unwaxed dental floss--one end wrapped around the forefingers of each hand--under fresh cookies to unstick them from a cookie sheet. Floss also makes a clean cut through a cake for layering. 
20. When mincing garlic, sprinkle on a little salt so the pieces won't stick to your knife or cutting board. 
21. If your cake recipe calls for nuts, heat them first in the oven, then dust with flour before adding to the batter to keep them from settling to the bottom of the pan.
22. Noodles, spaghetti and other starches won't boil over if you rub the inside of the pot with vegetable oil.
23. For extra smooth, well-mixed oil and vinegar salad dressing: Combine all ingredients in a screw top jar, add an ice cube and shake then discard what's left of the ice cube.
24. If you put onions in the freezer 15 minutes before you chop them, you'll reduce the spray of vaporized onion oils - which means your eyes won't tear when you cut the onions.
25. To prevent cream whipped ahead of time from separating, add one quarter teaspoon of gelatin to each cup of cream during whipping.
26. Brown gravy in a hurry with a bit of instant coffee straight from the jar... no bitter taste, either.
27. For a juicer hamburger add cold water to the beef before grilling (1/2 cup to 1 pound of meat).
28. To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.
29. Don't throw out all that leftover wine: Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.
30. Before making popcorn on the stove or in an air popper, soak the kernels in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, then pop as normal. The additional moisture helps the popcorn pop up quicker and fluffier with fewer “old maids.”

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