Save a dish (and your mind)
Why on Earth were we ever making brownie mix in a big mixing bowl, only to pour it all into a brownie pan of the same volume, dribbling ooey-gooey (albeit ooey-gooey goodness), everywhere? Just throw everything straight in the brownie pan and mix it all up there! Save yourself washing a difficult dish. This tip will really resonate with those of you baking your way through lockdown.
Learn 10 cooking tricks that are only taught in culinary schools.
Tendon-less tenderloins
To get the tendon out of your chicken tenderloin, pull the tiny bit sticking out through the tines of a fork and give it a good pull. The whole tendon will come out all at once, in one piece. You can thank TikTok-er @raising_krazies for this one.
This egg hack
Instead of peeling teeny, tiny pieces of shell off your hardboiled egg until it’s free, just crack a small hole at the top of the egg and a slightly bigger one at the bottom. Then, play the smaller hole like a trombone and blow the entire egg out of the bigger one. Yes, it actually works!