These 24 Easy-To-Learn Tips & Tricks Will Turn You into a Kitchen Expert in No Time

Let's face it, not many of us are kitchen experts, although we may know a lot, we can never know everything there is about preparing, cooking food, and cleaning up afterwards. That's why these 24 Kitchen Tricks and Tips from the �Serious Eats� blog are absolutely invaluable when it comes to the most important room in your house! These kinds of posts are always awesome to read. They can give us so many different ideas on how to make life easier and more fun. Some of these ideas will be totally cool to show your friends when they are over at your house too. They will totally want to learn how they can pull off some of the sweet tricks that you show them. That is one of the great things about the internet, you can learn so many awesome things to do and then share them with people you know too! It spreads like wild fire.

Take this simple trick, for example. Ever try to peel ginger with a knife or a vegetable grater? You failed miserably, right? Okay, so why not try a spoon instead? Yep, that's right � a spoon! All you've gotta do is gently scrape the skin off � you'll be amazed at how easy it is! The spoon's curved edge fits perfectly around all of those bumpy bits. Okay and what about squeezing lemons into a recipe? The seeds can be one royal pain in the butt! They are so very slippery, and once they fall into your bowl they can take forever to fish out. So, how about keeping a small citrus strainer nearby? Then, when it's time to squeeze the lemon or lime, you squeeze it over the strainer! The strainer catches all of the seeds and voila � no seeds in your recipe. Life is grand! What about simple tips like keeping the dishes clean as you go along cooking? It makes the end clean up process a lot faster, and that way you also always have a nice and clean working surface. Or a very obvious one, read the recipe before you start to make the dish. This one is often overlooked and can lead to problems while making the recipe. When you take time to read it over first, you are saving yourself a lot of trouble in the long run.

I have heard of this one before too, to always use a scale when baking. This is the best way to get the perfect amounts of everything because different flours can weigh out differently. And what about the garbage? Do you waste a lot of time running back and forth from the counter to the garbage and washing your hands in between? How about keeping a garbage bowl nearby? Then you can put your garbage in it as you go, and then dump it all into the larger trash can when you're all done. Brilliant! And of course, cooking is always much easier when our knives have been freshly sharpened! Want to more of the 24 Kitchen Tricks and Tips? Then head on over to the �Serious Eats� website and you can find out more of these great tips!