Maybe you don’t need a brand new kitchen to make cooking easier and more enjoyable. Maybe you just needed some simple tips and tricks you may not have known.
Great tips, Emma, and the butter one will come in handy! I do use a bin bowl and find it such a time and space saver.
A couple of tips about garlic I learned from TV chefs... To peel a clove easily, press it with the side of a cook's knife. It doesn't need much pressure, and the skin will then slip off.
The other one is to wash hands with cold water after preparing garlic. Hot water 'cooks' the garlic smell onto the hands.
Thanks Kate, some great garlic tips there! I tried the knife one when batch-cooking over the weekend and it made peeling a whole bulb of garlic much less frustrating and without the need to trim the cloves.
Great hacks Emma. Funnily enough a reel of my microplaning a tart is my most successful on Instagram. All these people, watching me grate a tart case! Madness.
The bin bowl is a favourite of mine. Also, I’ve grated excess frozen pastry a few times when I’ve been in a pinch, but I’m not known for my baking so a word of warning to the more learned.
Great tips, Emma, and the butter one will come in handy! I do use a bin bowl and find it such a time and space saver.
A couple of tips about garlic I learned from TV chefs... To peel a clove easily, press it with the side of a cook's knife. It doesn't need much pressure, and the skin will then slip off.
The other one is to wash hands with cold water after preparing garlic. Hot water 'cooks' the garlic smell onto the hands.
Thanks Kate, some great garlic tips there! I tried the knife one when batch-cooking over the weekend and it made peeling a whole bulb of garlic much less frustrating and without the need to trim the cloves.
Great hacks Emma. Funnily enough a reel of my microplaning a tart is my most successful on Instagram. All these people, watching me grate a tart case! Madness.
I reckon the number of people sharing it because they didn’t know the tip will no doubt have contributed to that reel’s success!
The bin bowl is a favourite of mine. Also, I’ve grated excess frozen pastry a few times when I’ve been in a pinch, but I’m not known for my baking so a word of warning to the more learned.
It’s such a good one. I think grating stuff is an underrated hack! I always keep grated parmesan in the freezer too…