These innovative food hacks will make your life easier !

You usually run out of time, and yet, cooking requires a lot to peel, to stone, to grate… Your time is precious, and that’s why these following tricks will make your life easier. And you know what? They are amazing!

1. Cook a dozen eggs all at once

It can be hard to put more than 5 eggs in a pan. Cook them in the oven to save some time. Put your eggs in a muffin tray and let them cook for 30 minutes. There you go, a dozen hard boiled eggs perfectly cooked.

2. Freeze your smoothies in muffin trays

Who has time to prepare a smoothie every morning? The trick is to buy all your ingredients in large quantities, to mix them all together and then to freeze your smoothies in the muffin trays. You will just need to take out 2 or 3 doses of smoothie from your freezer and mix it, and your smoothie will be ready!

3. How to keep bananas longer?

We all know that it is difficult to keep bananas more than a few days without them going rotten. To keep them 3 or 4 days more, you just need to wrap the fruits stem with plastic film.

4. Prepare your veggies in advance

After a tiring day, you don’t really want to lose your time cutting your veggies. To save some time, cut them in advance in large quantities and put them in a hermetic box or in a food pouch. You can then keep them a whole week.

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5. Get more juice from lemons

Everyone knows that it’s not always easy to extract all the juice from a lemon. However, if you make it roll on a table while putting pressure on it, you will burst the pulp and then get more juice out of it. Smart, don’t you think?

6. Get your butter to soften faster

To eat breakfast very quickly, you will need the butter to be ready. Yet, if it was in the fridge, it can be long until it gets soft… To make it soften faster, you just need to grate it instead of putting it in the microwave: it will melt quicker!

7. Cut corncobs easily

Take a kugelhopf mold, put your corncob inside the mold’s hole and cut it by turning the mold. Doing this will enable you to get the corn directly from the inside of the mold. Clever, don’t you think?

8. Take of the stems of strawberries with a straw

It is not very classy nor nice to eat strawberries when there are some leaves remaining. So, if you want to try and seduce someone around, just use a straw to take out the stem of the strawberries: they will be perfect and ready to be eaten!

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9. Peel your ginger

From now on, don’t waste ginger anymore. With a spoon, you can peel it easily and effectively. In the way, you will be able to have bigger pieces of ginger. Had you ever thought of this?

10. Peel your onions without a tear

Before peeling and cutting your onions, put them in the fridge for a while. This little trick will prevent you from shedding a few tears when doing it. Only put them in the fridge when you know you will use them right after you cut them.

11. For egg shells easier to peel off

When you boil your eggs, add some vinegar or baking soda to the water. These ingredients will be very helpful as they will make the shells come out very easily. Here is another trick that will make your life easier!

12. Keep your food fresh

If you’re very busy, you might take your lunch with you. You can make your own freezing bags. Wet a sponge, put it in a plastic bag and freeze it. You can then take it anywhere with you to keep your food fresh.

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13. Cut your tomatoes in record time

To cut cherry tomatoes more easily, put them on the back of a plate and flatten them with the back of another plate. But doing so, you will be able to cut a lot of them all at once.

14. Carry your salad

Cut the ingredients of you salad and put them in a jar. Thus, you can carry your salad easily. Don’t add the sauce yet so that it doesn’t cook. Practical, don’t you think?

15. Recycle your mixed herbs

A very practical trick to save your fading herbs is to put them in an ice-cube tray, add some oil and put them in the freezer. Then, when you want to flavor or season your veggies, you will just have to take them out of the freezer!

16. For riper bananas

You want to make banana fritter, right now! However, the only bananas you have are not ripe. No worries, you just need to put them 5 to 7 minutes in the oven at 350°F and your bananas will be perfectly ripe.

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17. Keep your leftovers properly

Keep leftover food in adapted containers and in the fridge. Warm up the easily wet ingredients such as rice, quinoa or couscous before eating them again. Do not keep them more than 2 days.

18. Bring honey back to life

If your honey crystallized, plunge it into warm water for 5 to 10 minutes. Just a bit of common sense and a clever solution will make you save precious time and also money.

19. Avoid oil splashes

You usually get burned when you cook steak or fried fish. To avoid oil splashes in a hot pan, add some salt or a pat of butter to the pan before heating it up and adding your ingredients.

20. Measure sticky ingredients

To measure some sticky or thick ingredients such as honey, peanut butter or agave syrup, add a bit of oil to your utensils. You will see, you will love this trick and use it a lot!

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21. Defrost your fruits

It’s the weekend and you’re feeling like doing some pastry. If you need to use frozen fruits to bake a tart or a cake, roll them first in flour so that they don’t release too much water.

22. Avoid boiling water to overflow

You have to let something simmer on the stove? Put a wooden spoon on the pan to prevent boiling water from overflowing. If you are overwhelmed or simply distracted, just think about using the wooden spoon.

23. To mince quickly

To save some time and also some energy, you can use utensils you already own at home. If you want to mince herbs or cut tomatoes quickly, just use your pizza wheel.

24. How to know if an avocado is ripe

There is a way to know if an avocado is ripe: you just need to take of the stem and check the color of the fruit. If it is yellow or green, it is perfect. If it is brown, your avocado is too ripe. If the stem doesn’t come easily, it is not ripe enough.

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25. Properly peel a mango

It can be hard to peel a mango without spilling it all over. However, it is possible: cut the two sides of the fruit and then, use a glass to get the pulp. It’s clean, fast and above all you don’t waste anything because you can get the whole fruit.

26. Clean your cutting board

You would like to get back a brand new cutting board? Clean it to get rid of smells and bacteria. To do so, rub it with cooking salt and the half of a lemon. Do it regularly to keep your cutting board incredibly clean.

27. Carry a cut apple

You’re always very busy? Carry your apple already cut and ready for your snack or your desert. To prevent it from oxidizing, put a rubber band around the fruit: it will stay fresh until you eat it!

28. Keep your guacamole

All cooking lovers know that avocado gets brown very quickly after using it. Of course, it gets less appetizing… To keep your guacamole longer, put a small layer of olive oil on top of it so that it doesn’t turn brown.

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29. Refresh your drinks

You are receiving hosts and yet, you don’t have any fresh drink? No problem, you just need to wrap your bottle in wet kitchen paper and put it 15 minutes in the freezer to make it fresh!

30. Keep your potatoes

Prevent your potatoes from sprouting by putting an apple with them. Your potatoes will then be firm and without any sprout. It will enable you to be able to keep them longer up to more than 8 weeks.

31. Prepare your salad

Take off the heart of a lettuce in a few seconds: to do so, hit the salad sharply on a wooden cutting board. Then take the end of the veggie, pull and it will simply come in your hand. It’s a done deal, your salad is prepared!

32. Keep your fruits longer

To keep your fruits fresh, put a cork cut in two pieces in your fruit basket. The cork will absorbe humidity and repulse midges. This trick will prevent your fruits from getting rotten and you will be able to enjoy them longer.

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33. Separate the yolks from the whites

Separating the yolk from the white when breaking an egg is not always easy. Break your egg in a bowl, put an empty plastic bottle right on top of the yolk and press the bottle. When you release pressure on the bottle, it will suck up the yolk: a quick and efficient trick!

34. Heat up your food easily

To quickly heat up your spaghetti plate in the microwave, just draw a hole in the middle of the plate. By doing this, heat will be able to diffuse equally and your food will be hot faster.

35. Do not cry because of onions anymore

Here are two tricks not to cry when cutting onions anymore: put your knife under warm water before cutting the onion or chew a gum while cutting it.

36. Prepare pasta in 60 seconds

Just let your pasta soak in a bag of water for 1 minute and they will be cooked. If you’re always in a hurry, just try this trick when you have only 5 minutes to cook.

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37. Take off egg shells easily

You will be impressed by this surprising trick consisting in wetting your hands to be able to take off the egg shell pieces that have fallen in your bowl.

38. Order your lids

A bit of ordering and tidying up in your kitchen will help you save some time. To prevent all your lids from getting all over your kitchen cupboards, tidy them up in a magazine rack.

39. A practical barbecue

Save some time and make your life easier! Put all your different sauces in a muffin tray so that you don’t have to wash too much dishes. Smart, don’t you think?

40. Caramelize your onions faster

Thanks to baking soda, you can cook and caramelize your onions two times faster. This is a great trick if your need to prepare a homemade sauce in a very limited amount of time.

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41. Stabilize your slippy cutting board

Your cutting board always tend to slip when you use it? You just need to put some kitchen paper or a cloth under your cutting board to make it stable!

42. Cut meat easily

You don’t need to wait for the meat to defrost to cut it into pieces. It can be cut in carpaccio very easily when frozen. Thus, before preparing your meat, put it in the freezer for a few minutes to make it easier.

43. Prepare your burger quickly

For a perfect homemade burger, spread the minced meat. Use a glass to make a hole in the middle. Then, put in on a pan and break an egg inside the hole. Add a slide of cheese on top, and your delicious burger is ready!

44. Keep your salad

Everyone knows that salad fades very quickly. Yet, this still little known trick will enable you to keep it longer in your fridge. Put your salad in a bag and blow inside it before closing it. This trick will prevent the salad from withering.

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45. Keep your berries longer

Wash your berries in a bowl of water and vinegar so that they do not get rotten too quickly. Let your fruits soak for three minutes, drain them and rince them to take of all the vinegar. Dry it with kitchen paper and and put them in the fridge.

46. How to keep half of an avocado

One half of an avocado is remaining, put you don’t want to eat it right now. To make it stay green a few more days, put it next to the quarter of an onion. It will prevent to from turning brown because the sulphur of the onion is a very good preservative.

47. Keep your lemons fresh longer

Here is a trick that will help you keep your lemons fresh, even after weeks. You just need to fill a jar with water and to keep your lemons in this jar in the fridge.

48. For crispy asparagus and celery

Just like the last trick, it is important to keep your asparagus in a jar containing water. Before putting it inside the jar, just cut the bottom of the veggie. When you will need it, it will still be fresh and crispy!

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49. How to keep tomatoes?

Did you know that tomatoes don’t like cold temperature? Don’t store them in your fridge! The best thing to do is to put them out of the fridge and far from the windows. While the sun make them ripe faster, the fridge make them softer and they lose their taste.

50. For a soft cake

Cakes tend to dry quickly. If you want them to stay soft just like the first day, you just need to put a bread slice on it overnight. You will see that it will keep your cake fresh!