If you love your food but don’t have enough time to even boil an egg most days, life can be difficult. However, there are ways of getting round virtually every food problem. From using a fork to dipping your cookies into milk, to microwaving using two bowls at once, most of these 14 tips and tricks save you time and mess! Others, like the egg trick, just make you look good in front of your friends.
It’s a win all round! If you’re looking for fast ways of honing your culinary skills, read on for some of the most ingenious cooking hacks around!
For fluffy, tender eggs, try baking them in their shells for 25 to 30 minutes at 160 degrees C.
Cupcake sandwiches taste so good. You also won’t get frosting all over your fingers!
Minimize mess by using a fork to dip your cookies in milk. Easy!
Try dipping cookies in milk and placing them in the freezer for a few hours. Mmm, yummy!
Don’t you hate it when your ice cream goes hard in the freezer? Simply place it in a bag and it’ll stay soft!
Now you can microwave two meals at once.
Cook two pizzas at once with ease!
This trick works best with a ripe mango.
Can’t stand that annoying dust near the end of a packet? Just use a colander!
Placing a rubber band around your takeout box stops the lid getting in the way of you eating.
Hard to open lids are a thing of the past when you do this!
Tired of breaking your nails on pistachios? Simply open half cracked ones with another piece of shell.
Mmm, Nutella and ice cream!
Pour milk into one side of an empty cookie packet for dunking heaven.