Wash vegetables first before cutting to avoid nutrition loss. Vegetables should not be cut into too small pieces as more exposure to air means more vitamin loss.
Water need to be only slightly above the surface of vegetables when blanching to reduce the loss of vitamin.
Put the fish into the pot and cover it only after water is boiling. The cooking time depends on the weight and thickness of the fish. Do not open the cover immediately after steaming; open it after turning off the fire for one or two minutes.
Method 1: The fish should be completely dried. When frying, do not be anxious to flip the fish. Frying the other side when the first side turns golden brown.
Method 2: Add some salt on the fish. Put ginger into the pot. Add oil into the pot and wait till the oil become hot before frying the fish.
Tin foil could be crumpled by hand before placing on the baking tray. The food would not stick to the tin foil.
When boiling soup, meat can be replaced by cashew. This is convenient and the soup would be as delicious.
Oatmeal can be added when steaming meat pie. A spoon of oatmeal and a spoon of water can be added into the steamed meat pie to make it more smooth and tasty.
Refer to the recommended cooking time on the spaghetti package and cook for one minute less. For example, if the recommended time is 8 minutes, the spaghetti can be taken up after 7 minutes. Cook the sauce and other ingredients, then put the spaghetti and some starchy spaghetti water into the pot and cook for one more minute. The spaghetti would be al dente with the sauce evenly attached to each spaghetti.
Put ramen under cold running water immediately after leaving the pot. The ramen would be more smooth and tasty no matter it is boiled or fried.
Put noodles vertically into the boiling water. Let the noodles spread naturally and they would not stick together after cooking.
Lemon juice, ginger juice and pepper juice can remove the taste from frozen food. Frozen food also can be put into boiling water for one minute to remove the taste.
Remove the internal organs and wash away the blood from the fish. Dry the fish. Add ginger and shallot when cooking to remove the fishy taste.
When making meat balls or flattening ingredients, the ingredients can be put into a preservation bag first. Our hands would not be sticky and the ingredients would not splash.
Use water from washing rice, orange peel, tea leaves and used tea bags to remove grease environmentally.
If the kiwifruit were hard, put them together with apples inside a preservation bag. The kiwifruit would become ripe naturally. Do not do this if the kiwifruit were already ripe.
Method 1: Freeze the onion for 7 to 8 minutes before cutting.
Method 2:Cut away the two polar sides and soak in cold water for 10 minutes before cutting onion into pieces.
Method 3: Do not cut onion down to the very bottom, cut the roots as the last stroke.
The fiber of onion is vertical. If cut horizontally, the spicy level of the onion is reduced and this would be suitable for salad and cold dishes. If cut vertically, the original taste of the onion could be preserved and this is suitable for cooking.
Cut both ends of the bell pepper. Place the pepper vertically, and make one cut on one side; the core and the seeds could be removed easily.
Roll orange on the table gently for a few rounds, then cut a circle in the middle part. The orange peel would come off in two pieces.
Cut water melon into half. With the inner part facing down, cut water melon vertically and horizontally. Eating would be convenient and the juice would not splash.
After washing and cutting apples, pears and eggplants, put into salt water at once.
After washing and cutting potatoes, soak them into water at once.
Method 1: Cut a cross at the bottom of the tomatoes, and put into a bowl of boiled water. This makes it easy for removing the skin, but do not leave the tomatoes in the water for too long.
Method 2: Cut a cross at the bottom of the tomatoes, and boil them for around 10 seconds.
Method 1: Put garlic on silicone pad, and cover garlic with one side of the pad. Press gently and roll up and down for about 10 seconds. Garlic will be peeled off.
Method 2: Put garlic into an empty bottle or plastic box. Vigorously shake it up and down for about 10 seconds.
Method 1: Remove the chestnut shell and put into water boiling for about 5 minutes. Put the chestnut on a towel, and use the towel to peel off the chestnut when it is still hot.
Method 2: Cut a cross at the tip of chestnut, and put it into boiling water until the cross burst open. Peel off the chestnut when it is still hot.
Cover grater with tin foil first before grinding garlic and ginger. The ingredients will not stick in the holes, and it is easier for cleaning.
Cut tin foil into small pieces. Wrap garlic and ginger inside the small pieces of tin foil tightly, and then put in cool dry place. This would prolong the preservation time of garlic and ginger, but do not wash them before wrapping.
Put a steel spoon into the gap of the cap, and twist the spoon along the cap; the cap can be open after gently twisting. If the gap is too small for the spoon, use a tape to stick the cap and its edge. Then, twist the cap vigorously.
