The smell of garlic is removed with steel: 15 secrets of cooking from our grandmothers

How to get rid of the odor of garlic on your fingers, how many need to cook pasta, how to make perfect mashed potatoes?

 

 

These secrets and even a few others will facilitate cooking and will make a master in the kitchen:

1. Pasta cook a minute or two less than what the packaging, because when you add hot pasta sauces will further soften.

2. To get rid of the smell of garlic, rub hands them under running water with a spoon of stainless steel.

3. When fried in a lot of oil, the food we put in the small, a few minutes hold the edge, before putting down the pan. This will be cooked and will not stick to the bottom of the pan and other food.

4. For best results when baking the cakes, eggs and butter for some time leave them at room temperature (approximately half an hour to a whole hour).

5. The freshness of basil you can continue if you put it in a cup of water and keep it at room temperature.

6. cauliflower to keep the white color in the water add a little milk and salt.

7. When you cook mashed potatoes, after trickled cooked potatoes from the water, replace them inside the pot set aside from the hot hotplate and allow to dry at room temperature once a minute. So purée will have a nicer texture.

8. To alleviate the taste of asparagus, peel and put in a mixture of equal amounts of salt and sugar. After 10 minutes wash with water and prepare as desired.


9. To get more juice from the orange, citrus and oranges before you put the strainer, rotate hands on a hard surface to soften.

10. To make a perfect vegetable soup instead ingredients immediately put into the water, carrots, garlic and parsley first sweat them in butter or oil to boost flavor.

11. The freshness of the vegetables can be renewed if it wrapped in a moist paper and store in a plastic box. So it can last up to four days longer.

12. How do you know that the oil is hot enough without putting the food and wait to begin to simmering? Put a wooden spoon in the oil. If you start to make bubbles around it, the oil is hot enough.

13. Integral rice cooked far longer than white, some types are even cook 45 minutes. Faster you cook, if overnight put it in water.

14. If the food soak all the oil, add a bit of country and shake the pan to evenly spread everywhere.

15. Before you start to chop vegetables on the board put a little salt for easier without scrolling to cut.

One more thing ... While cooking, recipes do not have to be "scripture." Relax and play, and the elements try to change them. For example, if you do not want oregano, you can replace it with another spice.