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No one is perfect, this means that kitchen mistakes can and will happen sometimes. However, that doesn't mean that you need to give up cooking. These simple hacks can turn the most common kitchen mishaps around in no time at all!

The Most Common Kitchen Mistakes And Ways You Can Fix Them Include:

Too-Soft Potatoes 

What if that pot of simple, starchy veggies goes too far, and you end up with a bowl of bland mush? The easiest thing to do is just to make mashed potatoes instead.

Salvage Stale Bread

Instead of throwing out your day-old bread, work with that slightly stale texture and make crostini. Slice and toast the dried out bread to get it extra crispy

Revive Flavorless Tomatoes

Tomatoes usually taste best when stored outside the refrigerator  they are actually quite a fragile fruit, and keeping them in the fridge can damage the membranes inside, causing them to lose flavor.  But if you committed a food storage no-no and put yours in the fridge,  there is something you can do about it. Roasting concentrates tomatoes' flavor.

Create A Tasty Snack With Soggy Rice

Rice is one of those basic ingredients it seems essential to master, but it can take awhile to learn how to cook it just right. If you add too much water to the pot and end up with soft muck instead of perfectly separated grains, it's still usable. Mold that mushy rice into balls around your favorite cheese, then bread and fry the rice balls to make arancini.

Rescue Overcooked Chicken

As long as it's not charred beyond all recognition, overcooked chicken can be remedied, at least to an extent. While you can't put back in any juiciness that you lost, you can mask a piece of chicken's dryness and add flavor and moisture with a well-made sauce.

Bring Together Broken Mayonnaise

What to do when it breaks? The key to making good mayo is proper emulsification  after all the other ingredients are whisked together, make sure to add the oil in a very slow, steady stream, whisking vigorously the whole time. If your mayo breaks, fix it by making a double batch.

Make Use Of Mushy Veggies

Steaming is an incredibly healthy way to prepare vegetables and highlight their natural flavors. But it doesn't take long, and if you get distracted for even a minute, it's easy to take veg too far. There are a couple of things you can do to make use of those squishy, too-soft veggies, though. Quickly pop them into a food processor or blender and make a purée .

Save  Dried Out Cake

If you have a cake that's already crumbling, broken bits or cracks in the cake can be pasted together with frosting.

Add Flavor To Bland Berries

If you end up with a bunch of unripe and flavorless berries, you can slice them up and sprinkle them with sugar to bring out their natural juices.

Perfect Pie Crust

If you tear pie crust while rolling it out, pie crust can easily be patched together  sometimes adding a sprinkle of water to moisten overly dry dough can do the trick. If you already placed the dough on top of the pie, you can remove tiny cracks altogether by cutting out a cute pattern — try shapes relatively easy to do with a small pairing knife, like hearts or stars.

Don't Cry; Just Use One Of These Fixes!

These hacks for fixing the most common kitchen mistakes will help you be able to save just about any meal. Have you used any of these hacks before?

Let Us Know How They Worked Out!

Article Source: Delish