43 Fun And Simple Food Hacks That Even The Most Inexperienced May Find Useful (New Pics)

I had never seen this, but apparently this is done in certain parts of the world to enhance the flavor and aroma of coffee (probably cheap or weak coffee).

Visited a cafe over the weekend and they had a tea bag in my coffee. I had ordered that coffee without knowing what it is as it was popular at this particular cafe in Korea. I thought it was a mistake, but the person I went with told me that this was their speciality. I was blown away with the flavor. Enough to a point that I went to the local market and bought Earl Grey tea (which I don't normally drink) and started combining them with my morning coffee.

Who knows....maybe it is that little extra kick of caffeine that got me all excited about this.

I had some lasagna sheets and decided to turn them into pasta. I boiled the sheets in salted water with a little olive oil and black pepper, then strained them and saved some of the pasta water. After cooling, I sliced the lasagna sheets into thin pasta like strands.

For the veggies, I sautéed corn and capsicum in olive oil with oregano, dried garlic, salt and black pepper. Then I made a simple béchamel with butter, flour and milk, adding some of the reserved pasta water to loosen it. Added salt, pepper and cheddar cheese cubes, then mixed in the sautéed veggies and my lasagna sheet pasta.

Honestly turned out way better than I expected

I found myself constantly forgetting the full pack of bacon after making bacon in the morning because nobody else eats bacon here.
Now I take the bacon 🥓 cut it in half on some parchment paper and roll it so I can simply take out four bacon strips each morning.
It brings me happiness to know I’m not wasting anymore or sad when I forget lol

I feel a little proud of this. I was tired of the raspberries I get from the store going bad so freakin fast. Looked up some different ways to keep them fresh and I liked this method. I washed the raspberries well, dried them with a paper towel as much as possible, then lined an airtight glass container with a paper towel then placed the berries inside. Stored in the fridge. Throughout the week I made sure to remove the berries that were starting to rot (only really 3). I think it was a success

Behold, my greatest invention.

I can never choose between the cream cheese frosting cinnamon rolls or the icing topped cinnamon rolls.

So I sliced the bottom off of one of each and combined them.

Now I can never go back.

Do you know those pre cooked (usually steamed) pack/pouches of rice?

I recently discovered you can make the best fried rice out of them. You just take the thing and put it in the pan, and treat it like it’s yesterday’s cold rice.

Have you ever tried doing this?

Ps: this only works with rice/cereals in those pouches. Canned cereals that are stored with a. Water salt brine are not good for this.

In the picture you can see one of my early attempts with brown rice

It's literally just caramel poured into upside down waffle mold (the kind you use in a sandwich maker).

Their price is their weight in sugar and energy used to caramelize and melt said sugar.

I’ve spent my whole life unable to make that uniformly colored pancake like diners etc. Tried a whole bunch of stuff over the years that never worked. Accidentally did it tonight after forgetting to add oil/butter etc. to the pan because I was cooking hashbrowns, eggs and sausage and I’m really bad at multitasking. Please excuse that little folded corner. It’s not my instinct to photograph my food so this was the one and only pic I took lol. For the record, this was not a fluke. I made another 12 pancakes that looked exactly like this!

Edit: TLDR; the hack is add your batter straight to your pan/skillet whatever. No oil, butter, sprays etc. Also keep the heat low, as in 2-3 on an electric stove