10 Food Hacks That Will Change Your Life

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Naturally, I'm the kind of person who likes to spend time in the kitchen but doesn't exactly get every creation to taste as delectable as they were intended to be. This is probably due to my lack of ‘kitchen skills’ so to speak or maybe it’s because despite my undying love for eating good food I am actually quite clueless when it comes to making it.

Now you may be thinking, “Why don't just follow a recipe then, duh?” and that’s actually a good point, touche, but even when it comes to following recipes I have difficulty getting it right. Normally when I see words like ‘julienne’, ‘sautee’ and ‘repose’ in a recipe I end up with an over (or sometimes under) cooked, nightmarish mess that nobody wants to eat and I end up getting reprimanded for wasting food. 

So is there hope for someone like me? I like to think so, and that hope my friends comes by cheating the system and hacking your way to perfection. Here we have my top ten food hacks from all around the inter webs    designed to get your cooking on point.

HACK 1: If an egg shell breaks into tiny pieces that float around in your egg and swim away whenever you try to pluck it out, try this hack. Dip your fingers into water, then take the shell out. You're welcome.

HACK 2: If you have an electric knife and somehow you need to cut off corn kernels from loads of knobs put the two together. You’ll get the job done a lot quicker.

HACK 3: If you like traditional oats for breakfast but you don't like instant oats for some crazy reason, or maybe you need to go somewhere in a jiffy and this place has no hot water just a microwave then try making your oats the night before, freeze them in muffin tins and then transfer them into a bag or container so you have your portion size all ready for thawing and eating. 

HACK 4: Cook your bacon on a waffle iron for 2 minutes each side. It wont shrink or dry out.

HACK 5: If you want to add some flair to your tea try this: add milk and crushed oreos to an ice cube tray. Freeze and pop into your hot tea or other warm beverage. 

HACK 6: If you have fancy guests coming over for some chit chat and all you have in house is white bread, cheese and ham, have no fear. Cut the edges off the bread slices and place the cheese and ham onto one side. Roll them up (You can dip them in some egg wash if you have eggs lying around) and fry them. Serve with some fancy tomato sauce and no one would be the wiser.

HACK 7: If you hate getting gooey liquids stuck onto your measuring utensils, spray them with some oil or non stick spray first. 

HACK 8: If you like bananas and you're craving some ice cream, freeze your bananas and then process them until you get some banana soft serve.

HACK 9: Wrap your bananas at the top (where the woody bit is) with some cling wrap to make them last up to a whopping four days longer. Wow!

HACK 10: If you don't want to cry like a baby when your cutting up some onions then cut them under the hood fan of your stove.