Cooking is a form of true art. It can be pursued as a hobby, or one may aim for perfection. Perfect cooking means cooking the best flavored and most nutritious meals with available records in the least possible time. That last aspect-time management is sometimes ignored, but anyone who cooks regularly will know the importance of the same. While time management is mostly clever planning, here are also some cooking hacks that can save time through a smart little trick or add a unique flavor to the dish through a similar scheme. This article discusses some of these tricks in detail.
Clever hacks of cooking in Indian kitchens.
1. A faster way to get Lemon Juice
Lemons are rich in vitamin C and several nutrients. One can open a kitchen in India randomly, and the chances are that one should find a couple of them because of their usage in countless dishes besides their excellent benefits. The only downside to
these little fruits is that they get frozen when they are left in the fridge, making it impossible for one to take the juice out of them quickly enough. Even when one does manage to get something out of it, the result is disappointing. A quick hack around this annoying problem is to microwave them for about 15 seconds. That will un-freeze the juices and make it easy to squeeze the same out for lemon water, salad, and countless other dishes.
2. Keep the pickles in the dark
Everyone loves pickles. However, pickles love darkness. When exposed to light or heat, they can lose their flavor, and it is thus best to store them in some dark corner away from sight or sunlight.
3. Clean kitchen can be easy
Cleanliness is next to godliness, and when it comes to cleaning the kitchen, one sometimes needs godly powers as well to get rid of those stains somehow. However, a simple mixture of baking soda and vinegar will do the trick.
4. Keeping mint and coriander fresh
The health benefits of Mint and coriander will need separate articles to enlist, yet more articles will need to be written to number all the dishes in which one can use them. Unfortunately, they can lose their freshness very quickly, and however, it is actually relatively easy to keep them fresh. All one needs to do is keep them in an airtight container in the refrigerator to keep their freshness last longer.
5. Reheating pizza better
Lusting after that leftover slice of pizza but don’t like its look? Reheating a pizza is a chore, and it makes the slice go dry and hard. A simple hack to this problem is storing pizzas only in a glass container and using the microwave to heat the slice. As for dryness, one can put a bowl of water next to the container in the microwave when heating it to avoid the dryness.
6. Sharpen your blender blades
No kitchen is complete without blenders. However, blenders’ blades tend to lose their sharpness and go blunt after some time of usage. That will have one spending longer and longer time in the kitchen as blunt blades slowly blend through a food item. Mixing rock salt, though, is a simple and excellent way of sharpening the blender’s blades.
7. Washing the vegetable cleaner
It is not always possible to get organic food, and even if possible, one must still wash the vegetables to get rid of dirt and other impurities. Still, water alone is not always very adequate for the purpose. Adding a little baking soda to water and then soaking vegetables can be a much more efficient way of cleaning vegetables. And one should avoid using plastic containers for the purpose – glass containers are much better, being more eco-friendly and less harmful to health.
8. Peel garlic easily
Garlic is one of India’s most beloved spices and offers incredible health benefits. However, peeling this mouth-watering spice is a chore that no one likes. An easier way to peel the skin off is simply removing the top and bottom of garlic and then putting them in the microwave for about 15 seconds. After heating the microwave, it will be much easier to peel off the garlic.
9. Store bananas away from other fruits
Bananas and fruits don’t go together unless one wants to see them ripen. One should always keep them away from other fruits to increase their life of fruits.
10. Avoid crying
Onions are the defining ingredient of salad, and they offer numerous health benefits but slicing them can bring tears to anyone’s eyes. Well, not if one follows this last hack. Just cut their edges off and then wash them with cold water. And ta-da! No tears, only taste.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
When talking about these kitchen hacks, there are several frequently asked questions (FAQs). The following are some of the most important of these:
Question: Are these kitchen hacks safe?
Answer: Yes, as long as one takes the usual precaution, these hacks are not only safe, but they also actually make cooking in general safer.
Question: Will they make the food lose its taste?
Answer: No, and they won’t. And some of the hacks mentioned above will enhance the taste of dishes.
If the reader has any other queries, they should feel free to ask them here.
The Bottom Line
One can quickly wrap up the above discussion by concluding that cooking in an Indian kitchen will always be a huge chore. These few simple hacks will make the cook’s life a lot easier. That is, of course, by no means an exclusive list of such cool hacks – there are hundreds of them, and many get discovered by some culinary genius or other every day. Cooking is an art that improves every day, and that’s just the beauty of it, isn’t it?
