KITCHEN TIPS
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BAKING
Homemade Rolling Pin Guide For Pie Dough
- You can make a rolling pin guide for pie dough with 2 rulers which are roughly the same thickness as rolled out pastry should be.
- You place the rulers on either side of the round dough so that the rolling pin on top of them which ensures that she ends up with a uniformly rolled dough.
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Non-Stick Cookie Portioning
When scooping cookie dough, lightlyspray your portion scoop with vegetable oil spray. This makes the scooping process faster & the cookies tidier. Reapply the spray as
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Portioning Frosting With Ease
- You use an ice cream scoop that will hold 2 T of frosting.
- Squeeze the ice cream scoop so that the frosting get's placed on the cupcake.
- Use a knife to round it on the cupcake
- This ensures that all the cupcakes are equally frosted & that the dollops of frosting are
even & easy to spread.
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Make-shift Pie Carrier
You can safely transport your homemade pies
by slipping the pie inside an empty large cereal.
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Makeshift Splatter Guard
- The best way to avoid splatter when mixing dough or batter with a handheld or standing
mixer is to keep the dry ingredients contained by making a splatter guard from a paper plate. - You cut a line from the edge to the center of a paper plate, cut a 2 inch circle out of the
middle of the plate. - Then position the cut-out plate over the bowl.
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Non-Slip Utensil Grip
- When preparing batters or other liquidy mixtures in a large bowl, you often find that the
whisk, spoon or spatula handles slips down the site of the bowl & into the mixture. - Wrapping a rubber band around the handle creates a nonslip portion that can rest on
the edge of the bowl so that the utensil stays in place.
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Origami Parchment Paper
- The problem is usually that it's difficult to tame the curl of a freshly cut sheet of
parchment paper. - Fold evenly spaced parallel creases in both the short & long directions.
- When unfolded the creased grid helps to keep the paper from folling back in a cylinder.
- It also works as a guide for evenly spacing cookie dough.
- The number of pleats may be adjusted for more or fewer spots depending on what is
being baked.
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Remembering to Remove The Bay
- When you prepare a soup & it needs to be pureed you need a reminder to remove
the bay leaf. - Cut 2 slits in a plastic coffee can lid & write on it 'Remove The Bay' on it.
- Then slide the lid onto the plug of your blender so that when you go to puree the soup, you'll have to remove the reminder.
- This will help you realize that you have to take out the bay leaf.
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Trim Lemons To Get The Most Juice
- The hard pointy end of the fruit keeps you from squeezing out the maximum amount
of lemon juice.
- By trimming off the end & creating a flat edge, you could press out more juice.
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KITCHEN EQUIPMENT
A Stick for Leveling Dry Ingredients
- Keep a chopstick in your flour bin.
- It's straight edge works well for leveling off dry measuring cups & it takes up almost no room.
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Easily Removing Lids From Cans
- When you are using an old-fashioned can opener, the lid sometimes drops into the can
& needs to be fished out. - You could make a 'handle' by taking a 4 inch strip of masking tape & fold one end over on
itself about halfway to form a handle. - Use your can opener & then press one end the lid before opening the can.
- Then pull the 'handle' to lift the lid from the can.
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Hot Handle Reminder
- Many people place a potholder near the oven door when they're roasting foods in the oven.
- A better idea is to hang a potholder on the oven door so it's at the ready to cover his hand before transferring the hot food to the stovetop.
- It's smart to leave the potholder over the pan's handle to signal to you & others that the
- handle is till hot.
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Makeshift Flame Tamer
- When you need to cook foods like polenta, over very low head, you need to stack two
burner grates from your stove top over the flame. - This way, the pot or pan is farther from the heat source & the food cools as gently as possible.
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Minimize The Mess Of Stovetop Splatter
- To keep stove top grease from spattering onto curently unused burners, put a new
12-12 inch floor tile over each of the unused burners.
- The tiles are easy to clean & they act as added counter space
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Pull Tab Leverage
- Most people have difficulty opening containers with pull tabs like the ones on soup cans.
- Sliding the handle of a small rubber spatula of wooden spoon into the tab loop give you
the right amount of leverage to easily pull the lid off the can.
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Sauce Splatter Reducer
- When you simmer thick tomato sauce it tends to sputter.
- Placing a splatter screen over the pot helps prevent a messy stovetop while still
allowing for evaporation.
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Shower Capping A Sifter
- Wrap an unused shower cap around the bottom of your flour sifter when you're storing it
or you need to put it down between tasks. - The elastic holds the cap in place around the base so no flour falls into the bottom of you kitchen drawers or onto the counter.
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Storing a Corkscrew Properly
- Keep a cork on the end of your corkscrew so you won't stab your hand when reaching
into the drawer to grab it. - It's also better if you have an extra cork.
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Wire Rack for Stovetop Streamed Tortillas
- To soften & warm tortillas without using a microwave, place a tortillal on a wire rach set
over a pot of simmering water. - Leave the tortilla over the heat only briefly to ensure that it doesn't get overly moist.
- Flip in once or twice so that it warms thru evenly. You should be able to stack more
than one at a time.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Cleaning Narrow Vessels With Rice.
- If you have a carafe, cruet or syrup dispenser that is too narrow to clean with a sponge
making it look cloudy, try this. - Clean the it with cool water, a little dish soap & a small amount of dry rice.
- After adding these to the vessel, cover the top & rapidly swish the rice kernels around.
- This will loosen any reside so that it washes away.
Double-Duty Cupcake Liners
- Drinks in car cupholders leave behind a mess from drips & spills.
- Put cupcake liners or coffee filters in your car cupholders.
- They help catch messes & you can simply toss them when they get too dirty.
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Space Saving Storage For Glassware
Store your drinking, wine glasses & coffee mugs
by arranging them rim up & rim down to fit more in a small cabinet or on a shelf.
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Stacking Bowls Of Soft Food
- Creamy desserts like pudding & creme brulee are often portioned into small dishes &
covered with plastic wrap to chill before serving so they take up a lot of refrigerator space. - A better way is to make them stackable by covering the dishes with stiff plastic lids.
- This also works for portioned sauces, dips & condiments.
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Storing Zip Lock Bags
- Most people reuse their lightly worn zipper lock bags.
- Here's a better way to store them neatly.
- Roll them up tightly & place them in an empty paper towel tube.
- The tube can hold 5 or 6 bags in a compact space.
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