You can master culinary skills over the course of years. Or you can speed up the process by using some useful life hacks.
1. To make fried potatoes crispy, pour cold water over the potatoes and dry them on a paper towel. Place the vegetables cut into strips only on a well-heated frying pan with vegetable oil poured on it.
2. If you decide to make mashed potatoes, use only warm milk so that the potatoes do not turn grey.
3. Are you afraid that the grated potatoes for the pancakes will darken? Add a small amount of hot milk to the bowl with the mixture.
4. Bay leaf can sometimes be the reason why the soup tastes bitter. To avoid this, add the spice to the pot 5 minutes before the soup is ready.
5. But to soften the bitter taste of radish, you can mix the grated vegetable with the same grated carrot.
6. Mother-in-law's skin on tomatoes is almost always associated with mold formation. To prevent this, sprinkle the cracked skin with salt.
7. You can get rid of the skin on tomatoes by pouring boiling water over them and then throwing them into cold water.
8. Often, only half of an onion is needed to prepare a dish. To prevent the other half from drying out, place it cut side down in a saucer sprinkled with salt.