9 startling but extremely useful tips in the kitchen that every housewife should know

Cleaning and cooking will become much easier when you remember these tips.

Cooking and cleaning sounds incredibly easy, but when you start doing it, you realize it’s incredibly difficult. While being busy at work, having to take care of the family and also having to take care of the kitchen, even if you have three heads and six hands, mothers will sometimes feel tired. The 8 tips below will help make kitchen work easier.

1. Remove sticker with dryer

When buying some canned goods and household items, they will be labeled with the manufacturer’s label. If you want to peel them off, don’t use your hands to pry them off. It’s a waste of effort. Take a hair dryer and heat up the label. Then you can peel them off easily.

2. Eggs will peel more easily if soaked in boiling water

Many people think that soaking boiled eggs in cold water will make peeling easier, but actually this is completely wrong. Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt, who has boiled thousands of eggs, advises you to put eggs in boiling water instead of cold water. Soaking eggs in boiling water will help the eggs peel better. However, you need to pay attention because at different temperatures, the eggshell can crack.

A few other notes are: The fresher the egg, the harder the shell. To ensure eggs do not crack while boiling, boil them in pairs.

3. Soak the pan in warm water and leave overnight

If the pan is burned or dirty, you should soak it in warm water, leave it overnight and then wipe the pan the next morning. Cleaning will be much easier.

Don’t follow the advice to boil salted water and then wipe the pan. Not only will your pan not be clean, but the salt can be harmful to the pan.

4. Wipe your hands with lemon to remove odors

When preparing fish or foods that have a fishy smell, hand sanitizer may not be able to remove all the odor from your hands. One way to help your hands get rid of the smell is to wash your hands with water first, then wipe your hands with lemon.

5. Wet the knife before cutting onions to reduce eye irritation

When cutting onions, we often encounter the problem of tears. One way that can help your eyes feel more comfortable is to dip the knife in water before cutting the onion, the pungent taste of the onion will reduce a bit.

6. After boiling, put the potatoes in ice water for a few minutes to make peeling easier

After boiling potatoes, we usually let them cool and then peel them. But peeling them is very difficult and they often stick to your fingers, looking very messy.

There is a way to make peeling potatoes more convenient. That is, after boiling the potatoes, soak them in ice water for a few minutes, then peel them. By then, the potatoes have cooled, the skin is still moist, and peeling is easier.

7. Cool hot drinks by placing them in an ice bath and sprinkling with salt

When pouring salt into an ice basin, the ice will melt and the temperature of the ice basin will drop extremely quickly, cooling hot drinks in just a few minutes.

8. Remove the bitterness of onions by pouring boiling water over them

Very few people can stand the bitter taste of onions. To remove this unpleasant bitter taste, chop the onions, put them in a small bowl and pour boiling water inside. Soak for one to two minutes then rinse with cold water. After that, the onion will no longer be bitter.