Grandma’s cooking hacks
The 10 best kitchen tips from our grandmothers
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Grandma’s kitchen tips still save us from many cooking disasters when we oversalt something – or simply don’t like a dish. With these grandmotherly advice, the food tastes much better…
Sometimes a very specific scent hangs in the stairwell. It smells of fresh onions, fried, of fat and warmth. You would love to ring the neighbor’s doorbell in the illusion that your own grandmother would open it, invite you in and serve steaming fried potatoes.
Of course you could also prepare the dish yourself. Unfortunately, it rarely tastes the way we imagined it in our heads. What’s missing is the lightness, the security, the memory of a time when you didn’t have to take care of your own meals, but were looked after by warm family members. Apart from the extra portion of love and care that grandmothers and mothers like to put into food, there are a few kitchen tricks that we could learn from them – and thus get closer to the original taste of our favorite dishes.
After all, almost every family has a few tips that are passed down from generation to generation and save us a lot of food. It’s not just emergency plans for when our hand with the salt slips (or we fall in love), but also little tricks and unfamiliar ingredients that we might never have thought of without the wise advice of our grandmothers.
10 kitchen tips from grandma that still save us food today
“After draining the boiled boiled potatoes, you have to put them back on the stove for a moment, then the remaining water will evaporate and the potatoes will taste better!”
“When the potatoes are finished cooking and the rest of the food still needs some time, take the pot and snuggle him up in the blanket to keep him warm.”
“Yeast dough works best in bed under the covers.”
“Always add apples and a few chopped pieces of pineapple to red cabbage for sweetness.”
“A few flakes of butter in the scrambled eggs – and if so, use water to stretch them and never milk!”
“Tip for the perfect rice pudding: At the end, mix in a good dash of cream and let it steep for five minutes with the lid closed and the stove turned off (doesn’t work with induction).”
“Instead of apples, it’s better to serve applesauce with red cabbage”
“Simply grate a potato roughly into oversalted food – and fish it out again after ten minutes.”
“To everyone Add a pinch of salt to every sweet dish and a pinch of sugar to every savory dish.
And because there was always advice for heartbreak in the kitchen:
“There’s a lid that fits on every pot!”