Kitchen Tips & Tricks

KITCHEN TIPS

For crisper vegetables :

• Soak limp lettuce leaves, celery and carrots in ice water for an hour. They will become crisper.

To remove burnt food from a pan : 

• Fill a scorched pan halfway with water and 50 grams of baking soda. Boil for 10 minutes and the burnt food will loosen and float to the top.

To soften hard butter :

• Hard, refrigerated butter will soften in the microwave in 30 seconds on the defrost setting. But stand there and watch it - a few seconds too long, and you could have a runny mess.

To ensure batter does not stick to spoon :

• When dropping dough from a spoon into a pan, wet the spoon in milk and the dough will not stick to the spoon.