A Little Help In The Kitchen

Cooking should be fun! And in that spirit, we are happy to provide some great tips, fun facts and a few food-safe suggestions. Here we go!

Fun Food Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

• Putting a piece of bread in the brown sugar will prevent it from becoming hard.


• If you run out of brown sugar, mix a cup of granulated sugar with two tablespoons of molasses to make your own.


• To make hard-boiled eggs easier to peel, add a teaspoon of salt to the water before boiling.


• If raw eggs become mixed in with hard-boiled, spin each egg. Hard-boiled eggs will spin and the raw eggs will wobble.


• To prevent bugs from getting into flour, add a bay leaf.


• To get honey to slide smoothly out of a measuring spoon or cup, coat the measuring device with oil.


• To ripen bananas quickly, put an apple in a brown paper bag with the bananas for two days.


• To get more juice from a lemon, put it in the microwave for 10 seconds before squeezing.


• Put garlic cloves in the microwave for 15 seconds and the skins will peel off easily.


• To remove the core from a head of lettuce, hit the core solidly on the countertop, then give it a slight twist as you pull it out.


• When cutting half of an onion, use the top half and store the bottom half – it keeps fresher longer.


• Keep chili peppers fresh longer by storing them with the stems removed.


• Put an apple in the bag with potatoes to keep them from sprouting.


• Dust the surface of a cake with cornstarch to keep the frosting from running off.


• Potatoes will cook faster if they’re soaked in salty water before they’re baked.


• Cookies burn less easily if they’re baked on a light silver cookie sheet rather than a dark colored one.