Top 25 kitchen tricks that will change the way you cook

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When it comes to making any recipe, there are often little tips and tricks that we accumulate through the years that make our cooking that much easier. These "Top 25 kitchen tricks that will change the way you cook," is a great list to go through and add to your kitchen knowledge.

These top 25 kitchen tricks are great ideas to make you life in the kitchen that much easier, some of the kitchen tricks you will find include; for boiled eggs that are difficult to peel, add vinegar to your water; for hers that about to go bad, freeze them; for that expensive leftover parmesan rind that you don't want to throw away, add the whole rind for use as seasoning when you are sweating onions in the first stage of risotto sauce; if you need breadcrumbs but don't have a food processor, go manual and make your own by grating stale bread on the side of a grater, then spreading them on a baking sheet and baking on low for about 30 minutes; if you need a meat marinade for your steak recipe but only have half an hour before cooking, reach for the wine, it will inject your meat recipe with a short, sharp burst of flavour, choose ingredients wisely, they will penetrate the meat, giving deep color while citrus zest and juice will tenderize the meat rapidly.

These quick and easy kitchen tricks are so helpful, and once you read through them, you will have a new arsenal of kitchen ideas and tricks sure to come in handy when you least expect it. I especially like the boiling egg trick, as it never fails that the shell is difficult to peel, while no more, thanks to the vinegar kitchen trick!

Another kitchen trick for when you have lemons that are not juicy enough, a solution is to use the microwave. Lemons save yourself the disappointment of an unsqueezable lemon by microwaving it whole for around twenty to thirty seconds on high. It's just enough time to release the juices in the lemon, but you'll want to be careful not to go overboard and dry the flesh out. Try a recipe containing lemon juice.

Lemon juice, rind, and zest are used in a wide variety of foods and drinks. Lemon juice is used to make soft drinks, lemonade, and cocktails. Lemon juice is used in marinades for fish, where its acid neutralizes amines in fish by converting them into nonvolatile ammonium salts, and meat, where the acid partially hydrolyzes tough collagen fibers, tenderizing the meat, but the low pH denatures the proteins, causing them to dry out when cooked. Lemon juice is frequently used in the United Kingdom to add to pancakes. Lemon juice may also be used for cleaning. A halved lemon dipped in salt or baking powder is used to brighten copper cookware, the acid dissolves the tarnish and the abrasives assist the cleaning.

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