Food Hacks (20 pics)
Does anybody else do this or am I the only crazy one?
Use a spoon to anchor your strainer
Put a koozie on your ice cream pint, keep your hand warm, and ice cream cold.
For easy-to-eat s'mores, try making them in ice cream cones.
Toast your buns on a conventional toaster
Make “sour patch” candy grape snacks by tossing grapes in lemon juice and different flavors of gelatin mix, chill or freeze (black cherry, lemon and lime flavors pictured)
Empty ketchup bottles make excellent batter holders and dispensers.
When sprinkling icing sugar over pastries or cakes, balance your wire tray over the sink (make sure the tap is out of the way!), dust liberally and any excess sugar can be easily rinsed away. No sticky counter / cloth! :)
Elevating the bacon keeps it out of the grease and allows hot air to circulate around the strips, so they cook and crisp evenly.
Weave your bacon like a basket while it’s raw. When it’s done cooking you can plop it right on your sandwich.
No cooking twine? Use bacon!
I cut bacon in half and freeze in individual pieces. Then I pack them into bags. When I want a little bacon I can pull just what I want and not have to find a use for the whole pound.
Use mason jar can lids to get the patty shape when making black bean burgs. (Also works with eggs)
Mason Jar lid ring to make my egg round for my breakfast sandwich! Totally works.
You can add 2 eggs and 1/2 a cup of oil to turn any cake mix into cookie dough.
Try the lemon method under the salmon to avoid burning your fish
Storing avocados with onion in the refrigerator keeps avocado fresh for days. I learned this by accident and found out it's actually a thing
New to the sub, so sorry if this has been done before. But the bottom of J.Lohr (as well as any similar shaped wine bottle) makes a great press for homemade ravioli.
My husband is using our baby monitor to keep an eye on the temperature of his smoker while he works.
