20 simple kitchen tricks

Surely you have repeatedly struck by household wisdom and skill of your mothers and grandmothers about all that is within the kitchen. This is because they told us that a raw egg from a boiled can be distinguished, just twirling them around on the table, or coffee from the Turks will not run away, if you put it in pitcher of water. All of these crafty skills with food and drink comes from experience, and today we want to give you a bit of theory, which is definitely worth experiencing in practice.

How to save the bubbles in champagne and protect the cheese from drying out? How to make a cupcake again yesterday crumbly and not to give the bananas to darken? These and other details of the storage and preparation of foods that will save your time and money, in our collection of 20 kitchen tricks.

1. Find out the freshness of eggs

If you are not sure that the eggs in your refrigerator fresh, just put them in a glass of water. A fresh egg sinks, old — emerges.

2. Extend the freshness of vegetables

On the bottom of the box for vegetables in refrigerator lay paper towels. They absorb excess moisture and not allow so fast rotting vegetables.

3. Save the bubbles in champagne

It is not necessary to pour the sparkling wine, which plays out. Just drop one or two of the highlights — natural sugar can work wonders.

4. Do not put the lemons

If you need only a few drops of lemon juice, do not cut the lemon in half so that it will quickly dry up. Instead, puncture the fruit with a metal skewer and you will get the right fluid in the right amount.

5. Keep fresh herbs

To grass remained fresh for up to a month, pack bundles in plastic bags and put in the freezer. They are easy to get when you need them, and they thawed within minutes after contact with the hot pan.

6. Eliminate insects

Bay leaf, put in a container of flour, pasta or rice, — a guarantee that there will not appear insects.

7. Mushrooms rid of mucus

Mushrooms can easily get rid of mucus, if you wrap them in paper towels before you put it in the refrigerator.

8. Make stale muffins fresh

To update yesterday's muffins, sprinkle them with water, put it in a paper bag and put in the oven for 10 seconds. The generated water vapor will quickly restore their softness.

9. Prevent drying of cheese

To prevent drying of cheese, spread butter or margarine on the cut surface, it will keep the moisture inside. This is the most effective method in the case of cheese with wax cork.

10. Keep the vegetables crisp

When radishes, celery, or carrots cease to crackle, put them in a bowl of iced water along with a piece of raw potato and watch the vegetables sweeeet right in front of you.

11. Do not allow the cookies to harden

Store crisp cookies that require prolonged chewing, in different containers, because otherwise moisture from the second will make the first not so crispy.

12. Don't let the bananas turn brown

Keep your bananas from the ligament until then, until he decided to eat them separately, they deteriorate much faster.

13. Save salt crumbly

A little bit of rice in your salt shaker to protect the salt from hardening. Fig collects the condensate, which appear lumps.

14. Keep fragrance oil

Feel free to stock up on butter when it goes on sale, because you can store it in the refrigerator for up to six months. Just put the butter in an airtight container, and it will not absorb the smell of all that is stored in the refrigerator.

15. Keep dairy products from the appearance of bacteria

To make cottage cheese or sour cream last longer, containers or jars in which they are stored, put in the fridge upside down. This will create a vacuum, prevents the appearance of bacteria, of which moulds products.

16. Clear honey

In fact, honey is the only food that never spoils, therefore, should not be allowed to sugar or muddy. Warm it in the microwave on medium power for 30 seconds, and it will be clean again.

17. Keep moisture in the pasta

To cooked pasta turned in one solid lump, put them in an airtight bag and place in the fridge. When you are going to reheat, simply place a few seconds in boiling water.

18. Save your cheese

Cheese you can freeze. After the meal, fold the leftover cheese back in the box, okay, close and put in the freezer. The day before again decide to eat it, put the cheese in the fridge. Best of all, this trick works with soft cheeses with a high fat content.

19. Use yogurt instead of cream

In a pinch you can substitute the cream for the yogurt in dishes that do not require cooking, because yogurt can solidify during cooking. So it is better to use whole milk or even mix it with yogurt 50 to 50.

20. Fix oversalted soup

There is nothing more hurtful than the soup is too salty, cooking which took hours. Try adding slices of raw potato or Apple to absorb the excess salt: leave them to cook on slow fire for 10 minutes and then remove. If the soup is still too salty, add a spoonful of sugar. If sugar doesn't help, you can splash a little Apple cider vinegar. The last thing you can try, if all else fails, is to dilute the soup is too salty water or broth.