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11. Multitask your vegetable peeler

Use it to make curls from a stick of cold butter or dark chocolate, slice cheese super-thin for easy browning, peel off the zest-y outer layer of lemon and lime rinds (sans pith) for cocktail twists, or cut long strips of root vegetables like parsnips, carrots, beets, or rutabagas to crisp for easy veggie chips.

12. Measure sticky ingredients without getting stuck

When you're measuring thick, sticky ingredients like honey or peanut butter, spray your measuring cups with nonstick cooking spray to make the ingredients slip right out.

13. Prevent freezer burn

If your ice cream lasts long enough to get freezer burned, try trimming the ice cream container down as you eat your way through it. The lid will still fit the miniaturized container and this reduces the amount of air the ice cream is exposed to (the culprit behind freezer burn).

14. Make a toad-in-the-hole burger

Put the egg inside the burger. Duh.

15. Waffle-itize…everything

Scrambled eggs, brownies, cornbread, hash browns, s'mores, carrot cake, cheese squares, tofu with sticky rice. Want more waffle maker recipes? Check out Will It Waffle.

16. Pimp your refrigerator
Cut decorative shelf paper to fit your refrigerator shelves. Cleaning bonus: If you cover the shelves with Press-n-Seal plastic wrap, just rip it off and replace it when the shelves get dirty.

17. Avoid kitchen math

18. Never second-guess grain-to-water ratios again

19. Nuke your fresh herbs to dry

20. Make eating an apple nearly impossible

21. When your digital thermometer battery dies on steak night …

22. Make ice cream with 4 ingredients (bonus: one of 'em is booze!)

23. Scrape the skin off of ginger with a grapefruit spoon

Because a vegetable peeler can't reach all of those knobby nooks and crannies.

24. Defrost meat on an aluminum tray

If you can't defrost in water (still the fastest method), aluminum is an excellent heat conductor and will cut the defrost time by about 30 percent, according to Serious Eats – much faster than a ceramic plate or plastic cutting board.

What do you think of these tips? Have you ever tried any of them? What are some of your favorite kitchen hacks?

Article Source: Chowhound