Just an idea. The scrub daddy potato hack can maybe be a good idea for parents. If your child wants to help and you don't want to give them anything sharp, just give them a potato and a scrub daddy and let them have fun while you are continuing your cooking :)
i thought it would be good for smaller potatoes where you would lose a lot by peeling it regularly. also my mom uses some type of small potatoes as decorative, where it would perhaps make sense to peel them smooth like this 😄
That's a great idea& Lara had a great point as well bc it does save a lot of the actual potato&it actually works with any type of scrubbing sponge&even those silver springy looking scrubbers(not steel wool but it does work too)¬ just the scrub Daddy bc I've been doing this for years whenever I didn't have a vegetable peeler,way before scrub Daddy's were invented lol&it works for carrots too👍🏻
A few years ago, the stores here in Sweden started selling scrub gloves as potato scrubbers for new potatoes (ie the first small potatoes of the summer that has very soft skins). Before that they just sold hard bristled brushes for that. My grandparents had some sort of potato peeling machine with a small grater plate at the bottom that you cranked around sort of like a sallad spinner, iirc with a bit of water in it too for best effect. Not sure I'm describing it well, but that also worked well for new potatoes. The big potatoes with thick skin you might as well just peel, it's quicker and easier.
The garlic/egg hack is so you can pinch the yolk out. Not scoop it. The "head" of lettuce hack is for an actual head of lettuce. Not a stalk or heart of lettuce. The chocolate/ice hack is using a bowl of ice water for a flatter surface and releasing. Not just ice. The ice cream slicing is only to be sliced from the top that way you can still store it in the container for later.
For the garlic hack, I'm pretty sure Emmymade debunked it a while ago. You can pinch it if your fingers are just really dry, the garlic isn't necessary
The trick with the celery and carrots is that you would have to slice a teeny bit off each end in order to open the pores so that the veg can suck the cold water up into its system. I usually soak celery that way for a good half an hour or more and they crisp right up.
Yes! And you don't even have to totally submerge them. Cut up carrot and celery sticks in a jar/glass of water (only to submerge the bottom inch or two) covered lightly with plastic will keep them crisp a long time.
For the garlic hack, I think the idea is that you can pinch the yolk to pick it up and it doesn’t break. So it’s less messy and it’s supposed to make it easier to keep the yolk intact. Although, tbf, the way you did it seems pretty foolproof to me, so I don’t know if it’s even worth the effort of peeling a garlic clove just for this. Seems unnecessary, although pretty cool.
8:02 For the head of lettuce, you need the round ball of lettuce, not the one you have. I worked in a fast food restaurant and someone taught me this, it does work if you have a round ball of lettuce. Slam the root side down, on a hard surface. It pushes the root up towards the top and breaks off all the leaves from the root. from Ohio 🇺🇸
For the ice cream servings, start cutting from top and save the lid. It will be a bit too large for the bottom but will cover the ice cream well enough 😊
Try turning you citrus to "candied" slices...That is what I have seen on TikTok and what I thought you were going to do. They would also work for drinks or to decorate a cake.
You can put a thin layer of water on a plate. Freeze then add the chocolate art over the top. It works qnd combines both methods. Can also put ot back in the freezer to set quicker
The garlic hack for the yolk isn't to scoop the yolk...it's to pinch it between the fingers you put the garlic on. The residue of garlic leaves a sticky layer of mercaptans that bond with the yolk and allow you to pick it up this way.
I’ve watched a video by Ann Reardon on How To Cook That were she addressed a TikTok of someone doing that with lettuce and as a food scientist she explained about it allowing the lettuce to absorb bacteria and stuff. I can’t remember fully as it was a few months ago but remember noting not to do that hack 😅
For the berry hack, what I do is soak them in vinegar and salt for a couple minutes, dry them on a paper towel and put them into a basic container lined with paper towel. This works very well for raspberries or any berry and I do this after I come home from grocery shopping. I’ve never had them go bad from this, the longest I’ve left them is 6 days and you couldn’t tell a difference from when I first bought them.
I wash my berries and put them in a Mason jar. They hsve lasted 1.5 to 2 weeks and just as fresh. Done it with chopped salad without dressing too works amazing!
The celery and carrot trick is something I grew up with my mom doing. She could cut them into sticks and keep them in cold water in the fridge. It keeps them crisp. It also helps recover the celery and carrots, but cut the ends off first. The lettuce trick is really good for iceberg or cabbage.
The garlic one didn't do anything because you put the garlic on the tip of your fingers so the hack is to pick it up like a claw, but you scooped it with your hand so the garlic does nothing because it's not touching the yolk.
It definitely shouldn’t have taken that long for the fruit slices to dry. I dry mine on a sheet pan with parchment paper at 200 degrees for 3-4 hours. I think the silicone mat was holding their moisture in.
If you just piped the chocolate on a bit of parchment paper and stick it in the freezer, you'd get the shape. Comes right off. And you can keep it thin😉
Best way to keep celery nice and crunchy, wrap it in Aluminum Foil. It sounds weird but it really works. The celery stays crunchy for two weeks, sometimes more. 🙂 Another great food hack, to get onion and garlic smell off your hands. Before washing, rub your hands on your stainless steel sink walls. The molecules in the steel bind with the sulfur molecules in your hand and removes the smell. You can also buy a stainless steel bar to use in your kitchen. 🙂
The stainless steel trick works to remove garlic & onion smell from hands. I run a stainless steel spoon over my hands then wash but the stainless sink works, too. Works great. You can buy stainless steel "bars" that look like soap, but a spoon works just as well.
I've been doing the berry "hack" for years. Strawberries i leave for about 10 minutes, softer berries 5. Also do grapes, cherries etc. Nothing makes them last forever but it sure helps. Make sure they are dry after! I don't measure the vinegar, just use a splash.
The ice water bath works way better for leafy herbs like parsley or basil!! Not once they they begin to turn brown unfortunately but when they're starting to wilt, it perks them right up. Best done about 10 minutes before use. Use that one in the culinary industry every day 👍
Also I found out (I’m in France) that the vegetables I buy in traditional grocery stores are very weird since a few months, I can’t keep them like I would normally, almost everything especially the carrots, in like 3 days after buying (even in winter because I store most of them outside) they turn black and all soft like they’re emptying from their water💀 maybe it’s because I went from buying organic all time to not organic but it’s a little scary not gonna lie, imma return to my organic 💀
I had the same problemy. Now,right after I come back from grocery I pell carrots and keep them in water in frige. Change water every day. Sometimes i cut them in pieces for hummus. Kids Have ready,quick meal.
@@aanrtyk7350 thank you for the recommendation but the heck we shouldn’t have to do that to eat fresh vegetables, what are those new mutant, I remember like 1-2 years ago I would buy vegetables for two weeks at least, now it’s like we have to go shop every couple of days that’s crazy💀
Yes!!! I am from Germany and i have the same problem. "Fresh" vegetables and fruits from the grocery stores are really soft, to fast too ripe and turning bad after like two days. A few month ago it was possible to store them in the fridge for weeks 😳
Technically the hack is for iceberg lettuce, though kudos to your husband for making it work with romaine. And maybe heating up your knife under hot water might have helped it cut through the ice cream. Dad used to do that decades ago near the bottom of the rectangular cartons. Looked funny getting a square of ice cream. I’ve heard some of the companies fill their pints from the bottom so when it’s opened the customer sees a nice smooth surface of a “completely” full pint.
do the chocolate on a metal cookie sheet. Freeze the cookie sheet in the freezer- do the chocolate shape- once the chocolate is set- heat the bottom of the tray just enough for the chocolate to start to loosen from the tray.
Girl, you froze the ice-cubes together! Of course it was gonna stick to the ice and plate. You wasn't supposed to put it in the freezer. Maybe if you had defrosted it a little, it would have loosened both up though, who knows...
My dad used to buy the rectangular boxes of ice cream, and he used a sharp knife to cut off a serving instead of using a scoop. Seeing you cut into that pint of ice cream brought back a memory. ❤
I had to pause video on TV to comment on phone😂 Scrub Daddy hack- Yeah it would take US forever to do a potato hack like that but think about how how much fun all the KIDDOS would have if you told them it was a race😂😂😂😂. I think that’s how God gets us to have more babies! He makes us think getting them to do any “work” will be easy, free labor and we forget about childbirth😂😂😂 Thanks for being transparent. I struggle with similar battles. Here with you💜💜💜💜
I rinse my vinegar bath blueberries and those little suckers last for weeks!!! Absolute tops 2 weeks for other berries but usually under. The produce at my local grocery store when very down hill during Covid and it hasn’t really improved at all. So excited next summer I will have a full garden and can grow my own!
So the ice cream hack:I would put softened ice cream into muffin tins (sizes for however big the cookies are.) like for a kid “sandwich” or just smaller portion you could use mini-muffin or for a big treat a large muffin container. Just put in the amount you’d want for whatever thickness you want in between cookies and freeze it. Should pop out of the muffin tin (ooh! Or a ramican!) and fit in between the cookies.
I'm late to seeing this video, so please forgive me. I just had to comment on that Winnipeg Blue Bombers t-shirt. Everyone knows that the Saskatchewan Roughriders are the best! 😁
A berry hack I tried that I was super skeptical about (but actually worked for me) was keeping strawberries inside a tightly closed glass jar in the fridge. They stayed fresh a lot longer keeping them like that 🤷🏻♀
I do the vinegar soak with most of my fruits and vegs. How long you soak really depends on what you're soaking, raspberries *maybe* a min. I did strawberries tonight, they say 5 min (I go maybe 3), but as you noticed if you soak too long they become waterlogged.
The Scrubdaddy potato hack is very common in sweden using skrubb spunges or like the gloves you use to scrubb your body. Here you kan buy them specially for potatos (just the text potatoes printed on it :-P )
Mason jars Rach!!! I wash my strawberries in fruit and veg soap and let dry. I store them in a mason jar and I tell y’a, they last at least 2 weeks! Mind blown! I haven’t tried with raspberries though.
I once bought a bag of blood oranges they all looked pretty and everything, BUT the next day one of them LITERALLY looked like the inside of a baseball ball so we could the bag back and when the lady saw it at the service deck she looked like she would scream out bloody murder
It is funny to see you try things as "hacks" that I have used like everyday knowledge in other country, like using sponge to clean potatoes. You do not actually use the sponge to peel potato completely. We use it for fresh young potatoes, where the peel is tender and you do not want to remove it completely, because boiling young potatoes WITH peel is what makes them taste so good - with salt and butter - Yum! But what you want to do, is to clean them from sand and dirt. And sponge is so good for that. Quickly scrub them over with sponge and into the pot. You can do the same for carrots, where the peel is looking nice. No need to completely peel them, sponge clean will be enough.
I do that trick with all my veggies to rehydrate them. When my salade looks sad, celery, carrots, radishes etc.. I put them for at least half a day to a night long in water. They rehydrate and become like fresh and crunshie !! Excuse my english I am French
So I wash my fruit in the vinegar wash but I do rinse. Then I make sure they're extremely dry by first leaving them in a colander then I lay them out on paper towels in front of a fan for a few hours. I then line a bowl with paper towels, page all the berries in there, cover with paper towel, and then plastic wrap. Keeps for 2 - 3 weeks and looks like the day I bought them.
The egg hack has nothing to do with scooping it up. Obviously, that is easy. It has to do with pinching it to pick it up, which is very hard. I have also seen the hack where people say to wet your fingertips. Idk that just seems like a lot. Just crack the egg and scoop it out. I don't need garlic fingers.
For the ice cream sandwich one, I don't think I would want to be eating all the cooties from people stocking, the shopping cart, the cashier ect. It's the same thing as licking the packaging of your groceries.🤢
*Many* moons ago (high school), I worked for Baskin Robbins. We cut our ice cream tubs with a stand that had a blade to cut the cardboard and then used a wire to cut the ice cream. Like how they cut cheese wheels. So much better than trying to use a big chef’s knife.
The lettuce trick is for iceburg lettuce, its how I learned to prep lettuce when I worked at A&W as a teenager. Also, the paper towel on the bottom of the container works for most fruits and veggie - its how i keep my produce.
the vinegar method works best if you let them air dry on a paper towel or drying mat before putting them away. Towel drying doesn't get all the moisture off and you risk squishing the berries.
Love you and your channels!!! What about using your air fryer for the dehydrating of your fruit. I have a Ninja Foodi and there is a dehydration setting.
egg yoke hack: crack the egg into a bowl, grab an empty plastic bottle, squeeze it, put in on top of the yoke while squeezing, unsqueeze, the yoke will get pulled into the bottle. to take it out, just squeeze the bottle again
You should never wash your berries such as raspberries or blackberries until right before you eat them because you’re also rinsing out flavor and diluting it
You can absolutely grow that lettuce stump. I do it all the time in my little Canadian raised garden on my deck. Water first until it roots, then plant.
For the cold water hack we used to ice water and a splash of lemon juice to crisp veggies. And the lettuce hack is best for iceberg. All restaurant secrets 🤣
I have heard that if you use mason jars after you wash your berries with vinegar and dry them that it will stay fresh for a couple weeks in the fridge!!!
We make our own ice cream sandwiches all of the time by just scooping ice cream on to store bought cookies. Its easier to do if the ice cream is a little soft. Wrap them with plastic wrap and freeze. Best after being in the freezer for a few weeks so the cookies can soften a bit.
As someone that lives alone my carrots and celery often go bendy I often leave them in cup of water in my fridge door till I use them. I tend to let the carrots go bendy and then put them in the water overnight before I use them. I also put spring onions in a glass of water on the windowsill they stay firm and actually grow a little too
The lettuce trick is great on a head of iceberg lettuce. Try!
That is the type we use it for as well.
I said this the millisecond I saw her with a romaine head and not a normal iceberg head 😂
I did too!! 😂
Why not just cut the end piece off it takes zero effort
I was just gonna say I think the lettuce hack is mostly for iceberg lettuce
Just an idea. The scrub daddy potato hack can maybe be a good idea for parents. If your child wants to help and you don't want to give them anything sharp, just give them a potato and a scrub daddy and let them have fun while you are continuing your cooking :)
i thought it would be good for smaller potatoes where you would lose a lot by peeling it regularly. also my mom uses some type of small potatoes as decorative, where it would perhaps make sense to peel them smooth like this 😄
That's a great idea& Lara had a great point as well bc it does save a lot of the actual potato&it actually works with any type of scrubbing sponge&even those silver springy looking scrubbers(not steel wool but it does work too)¬ just the scrub Daddy bc I've been doing this for years whenever I didn't have a vegetable peeler,way before scrub Daddy's were invented lol&it works for carrots too👍🏻
I’m my personal life it’s a 2 in 1, I wash the potatoes with a scrub daddy and it peels as we go, scrub daddy cleans up no problem
A few years ago, the stores here in Sweden started selling scrub gloves as potato scrubbers for new potatoes (ie the first small potatoes of the summer that has very soft skins). Before that they just sold hard bristled brushes for that.
My grandparents had some sort of potato peeling machine with a small grater plate at the bottom that you cranked around sort of like a sallad spinner, iirc with a bit of water in it too for best effect. Not sure I'm describing it well, but that also worked well for new potatoes. The big potatoes with thick skin you might as well just peel, it's quicker and easier.
The garlic/egg hack is so you can pinch the yolk out. Not scoop it.
The "head" of lettuce hack is for an actual head of lettuce. Not a stalk or heart of lettuce.
The chocolate/ice hack is using a bowl of ice water for a flatter surface and releasing. Not just ice.
The ice cream slicing is only to be sliced from the top that way you can still store it in the container for later.
I’ve always used this lettuce hack and I’ve only used it with an iceberg lettuce head… 😂, so I agree with you!
@Jess Bishop exactly. My mom taught me this when I was a kid. And I'm 40. Lol
she should hire you as a hack consultant LOL
For the garlic hack, I'm pretty sure Emmymade debunked it a while ago. You can pinch it if your fingers are just really dry, the garlic isn't necessary
@FlowersInTheVase_ Now that you mention it. You're right. I've seen that one too. 😄
The trick with the celery and carrots is that you would have to slice a teeny bit off each end in order to open the pores so that the veg can suck the cold water up into its system. I usually soak celery that way for a good half an hour or more and they crisp right up.
Yes! And you don't even have to totally submerge them. Cut up carrot and celery sticks in a jar/glass of water (only to submerge the bottom inch or two) covered lightly with plastic will keep them crisp a long time.
I also find it quicker with ice water.
Also works great on kale that looks a little limp
For the garlic hack, I think the idea is that you can pinch the yolk to pick it up and it doesn’t break. So it’s less messy and it’s supposed to make it easier to keep the yolk intact. Although, tbf, the way you did it seems pretty foolproof to me, so I don’t know if it’s even worth the effort of peeling a garlic clove just for this. Seems unnecessary, although pretty cool.
Came to say you are supposed to pinch it. But also, if you are baking it might make it taste funny. Just buy an egg separator lol
For the chocolate hack thing, if you mix coconut oil into the chocolate, it will set up at room temperature. It's basically magic shell!
I believe the garlic on your fingers let's you pinch the yolk out without having to scoop it with your whole hand.
8:02 For the head of lettuce, you need the round ball of lettuce, not the one you have. I worked in a fast food restaurant and someone taught me this, it does work if you have a round ball of lettuce. Slam the root side down, on a hard surface. It pushes the root up towards the top and breaks off all the leaves from the root. from Ohio 🇺🇸
Apparently I used the wrong lettuce LOL 🫠
Iceberg lettuce
Iceberg
@@RachhLovesLife yes, works better on iceberg lettuce.
Yup.. I slammed many a lettuce when I did salad prep!
For the ice cream servings, start cutting from top and save the lid. It will be a bit too large for the bottom but will cover the ice cream well enough 😊
The veggie hack works best over night 🥰🥰 and the lettuce one is more for iceberg lettuce
yes but those carrots doesn't taste the same and you should use them right away cause they get back very quikly
My mother taught me the lettuce hack with iceberg lettuce when I was a young child, so I thought that was just the way everyone did it 😂
Try turning you citrus to "candied" slices...That is what I have seen on TikTok and what I thought you were going to do. They would also work for drinks or to decorate a cake.
You can put a thin layer of water on a plate. Freeze then add the chocolate art over the top. It works qnd combines both methods. Can also put ot back in the freezer to set quicker
The garlic hack for the yolk isn't to scoop the yolk...it's to pinch it between the fingers you put the garlic on. The residue of garlic leaves a sticky layer of mercaptans that bond with the yolk and allow you to pick it up this way.
5:23 Mold doesnt grow from bacteria it grows from spores! (Its fungus)
Did your house smell amazing when you were dehydrating the citrus?
The chocolate hack works but it needs to be ice WATER. I don’t know that you can really get specific shapes though. More abstract garnishes.
The cold water trick works the best with lettuce and other leafy greens! I use it constantly
I’ve watched a video by Ann Reardon on How To Cook That were she addressed a TikTok of someone doing that with lettuce and as a food scientist she explained about it allowing the lettuce to absorb bacteria and stuff. I can’t remember fully as it was a few months ago but remember noting not to do that hack 😅
For the berry hack, what I do is soak them in vinegar and salt for a couple minutes, dry them on a paper towel and put them into a basic container lined with paper towel. This works very well for raspberries or any berry and I do this after I come home from grocery shopping. I’ve never had them go bad from this, the longest I’ve left them is 6 days and you couldn’t tell a difference from when I first bought them.
I do the same, and they do seem to last longer.
I wash my berries and put them in a Mason jar. They hsve lasted 1.5 to 2 weeks and just as fresh. Done it with chopped salad without dressing too works amazing!
I did this a few days ago with strawberrys for the first time, it really works!
Dumb question but do you rinse or just go right to drying?
@@awshucks79 rinse with cold water and dry them with a paper towel to stop them to go squishy from the water:D
By the way we would love to see a video with Chris showing how to make is favorite cocktails 🥰
The celery and carrot trick is something I grew up with my mom doing. She could cut them into sticks and keep them in cold water in the fridge. It keeps them crisp. It also helps recover the celery and carrots, but cut the ends off first. The lettuce trick is really good for iceberg or cabbage.
The garlic one didn't do anything because you put the garlic on the tip of your fingers so the hack is to pick it up like a claw, but you scooped it with your hand so the garlic does nothing because it's not touching the yolk.
The lemons and oranges need at least 8 hours to dry completely in the oven. I always leave them over night and leave a wooden spoon in the oven door 🙃
The lettuce hack is for a ball of ICEBERG, not romaine. Please, lettuce romaine friends.
Will you please share Trish's cookie recipe? Looked amazing! And Chris needs to (well, I need Chris to) share a drink a week. Please and thank you.
It definitely shouldn’t have taken that long for the fruit slices to dry. I dry mine on a sheet pan with parchment paper at 200 degrees for 3-4 hours. I think the silicone mat was holding their moisture in.
If you just piped the chocolate on a bit of parchment paper and stick it in the freezer, you'd get the shape. Comes right off. And you can keep it thin😉
You realize you're an actual old lady when you already knew all of these hacks because of, well, life experience 🤣
So funny how kids on TikTok think they're so smart 😆 Everything old is new again
The egg wasn't a bust, you did it wrong. You need to try to pick up the eggyoke with 2 fingers.
Best way to keep celery nice and crunchy, wrap it in Aluminum Foil. It sounds weird but it really works. The celery stays crunchy for two weeks, sometimes more. 🙂 Another great food hack, to get onion and garlic smell off your hands. Before washing, rub your hands on your stainless steel sink walls. The molecules in the steel bind with the sulfur molecules in your hand and removes the smell. You can also buy a stainless steel bar to use in your kitchen. 🙂
The stainless steel trick works to remove garlic & onion smell from hands. I run a stainless steel spoon over my hands then wash but the stainless sink works, too. Works great. You can buy stainless steel "bars" that look like soap, but a spoon works just as well.
@@wearelegion1163 I actually never thought of a stainless steel spoon, but it makes sense! That’s smart thinking. 🙂
I was wary on the celery trick but I tried it last time I bought it and it lasts significantly longer than if I hadn't wrapped it in foil.
You should do a whole video on scrub daddy hacks! Find out what it truly can’t do 😂😁
The potato hack is probably more safe if you have small kids who wants to help in the kitchen
I've been doing the berry "hack" for years. Strawberries i leave for about 10 minutes, softer berries 5. Also do grapes, cherries etc. Nothing makes them last forever but it sure helps. Make sure they are dry after! I don't measure the vinegar, just use a splash.
My air fryer has a dehydration button. Never tried because I have a dehydrator
Learned that lettuce trick from grandmother on iceberg lettuce. Make x on bottom of core put in soil for more lettuce.
Iceberg lettuce... not the Romain style...
The ice water bath works way better for leafy herbs like parsley or basil!! Not once they they begin to turn brown unfortunately but when they're starting to wilt, it perks them right up. Best done about 10 minutes before use. Use that one in the culinary industry every day 👍
Love the cameo from morning Rachel. LOL
Yeah wrong kind of lettuce.
even if the garlic hack worked, I'd rather struggle a moment to separate the yolk than have stenchy garlic hands for a week
Not to mention the hint of garlic that clings to the egg yolk...yummy cake - NOT!
The water bottle works much better.
Also I found out (I’m in France) that the vegetables I buy in traditional grocery stores are very weird since a few months, I can’t keep them like I would normally, almost everything especially the carrots, in like 3 days after buying (even in winter because I store most of them outside) they turn black and all soft like they’re emptying from their water💀 maybe it’s because I went from buying organic all time to not organic but it’s a little scary not gonna lie, imma return to my organic 💀
I had the same problemy. Now,right after I come back from grocery I pell carrots and keep them in water in frige. Change water every day. Sometimes i cut them in pieces for hummus. Kids Have ready,quick meal.
@@aanrtyk7350 thank you for the recommendation but the heck we shouldn’t have to do that to eat fresh vegetables, what are those new mutant, I remember like 1-2 years ago I would buy vegetables for two weeks at least, now it’s like we have to go shop every couple of days that’s crazy💀
Yes!!! I am from Germany and i have the same problem. "Fresh" vegetables and fruits from the grocery stores are really soft, to fast too ripe and turning bad after like two days. A few month ago it was possible to store them in the fridge for weeks 😳
@@Ninidil very weird !! I hate that situation
Technically the hack is for iceberg lettuce, though kudos to your husband for making it work with romaine. And maybe heating up your knife under hot water might have helped it cut through the ice cream. Dad used to do that decades ago near the bottom of the rectangular cartons. Looked funny getting a square of ice cream.
I’ve heard some of the companies fill their pints from the bottom so when it’s opened the customer sees a nice smooth surface of a “completely” full pint.
The lettuce trick is for iceberg lettuce
do the chocolate on a metal cookie sheet. Freeze the cookie sheet in the freezer- do the chocolate shape- once the chocolate is set- heat the bottom of the tray just enough for the chocolate to start to loosen from the tray.
I thought everyone hit their lettuce on the cabinet especially Iceberg. I'm 67 and that's the way my mother always did it as well.
Yep. I'm 65 & learned that from my mom when I was a child
Girl, you froze the ice-cubes together! Of course it was gonna stick to the ice and plate. You wasn't supposed to put it in the freezer. Maybe if you had defrosted it a little, it would have loosened both up though, who knows...
Wrap spinach in kitchen roll and put in a Tupperware… saves spinach from getting wilty!
My dad used to buy the rectangular boxes of ice cream, and he used a sharp knife to cut off a serving instead of using a scoop. Seeing you cut into that pint of ice cream brought back a memory. ❤
My dad told me the same thing about my grandpap!
I had to pause video on TV to comment on phone😂 Scrub Daddy hack- Yeah it would take US forever to do a potato hack like that but think about how how much fun all the KIDDOS would have if you told them it was a race😂😂😂😂. I think that’s how God gets us to have more babies! He makes us think getting them to do any “work” will be easy, free labor and we forget about childbirth😂😂😂 Thanks for being transparent. I struggle with similar battles.
Here with you💜💜💜💜
Cold water whimpie veggies, just leave in fridge in water. THEY WILL firm up.
I rinse my vinegar bath blueberries and those little suckers last for weeks!!! Absolute tops 2 weeks for other berries but usually under. The produce at my local grocery store when very down hill during Covid and it hasn’t really improved at all. So excited next summer I will have a full garden and can grow my own!
I’m new to your videos, but I always enjoy the Winnipeg t-shirts Chris wears.
Hello from Winnipeg.🤣
So the ice cream hack:I would put softened ice cream into muffin tins (sizes for however big the cookies are.) like for a kid “sandwich” or just smaller portion you could use mini-muffin or for a big treat a large muffin container. Just put in the amount you’d want for whatever thickness you want in between cookies and freeze it. Should pop out of the muffin tin (ooh! Or a ramican!) and fit in between the cookies.
I'm late to seeing this video, so please forgive me. I just had to comment on that Winnipeg Blue Bombers t-shirt. Everyone knows that the Saskatchewan Roughriders are the best! 😁
A berry hack I tried that I was super skeptical about (but actually worked for me) was keeping strawberries inside a tightly closed glass jar in the fridge. They stayed fresh a lot longer keeping them like that 🤷🏻♀
Lol, I kinda like 'I just woke up' Rachel. She seems kinda fun. :3
I do the vinegar soak with most of my fruits and vegs. How long you soak really depends on what you're soaking, raspberries *maybe* a min. I did strawberries tonight, they say 5 min (I go maybe 3), but as you noticed if you soak too long they become waterlogged.
The Scrubdaddy potato hack is very common in sweden using skrubb spunges or like the gloves you use to scrubb your body. Here you kan buy them specially for potatos (just the text potatoes printed on it :-P )
I’m laughing so hard. That’s ROMAINE LETTUCE. NOT A HEAD lol
Cold tub. Haha perk of living in Atlantic canada just stand in the Atlantic ocean for 5 minutes
Honestly surprised at how many people don't know the lettuce trick... but also. It's for a head of lettuce...
Mason jars Rach!!! I wash my strawberries in fruit and veg soap and let dry. I store them in a mason jar and I tell y’a, they last at least 2 weeks! Mind blown! I haven’t tried with raspberries though.
I once bought a bag of blood oranges they all looked pretty and everything, BUT the next day one of them LITERALLY looked like the inside of a baseball ball so we could the bag back and when the lady saw it at the service deck she looked like she would scream out bloody murder
Hi! Could you please try out Color Street nail stickers! They are super good quality, mess free, and last awhile! Thanks so much!
i've been doing that lettuce trick my entire life. I didn't know other people didn't do it tbh...though usually it's for round/iceberg lettuce
It is funny to see you try things as "hacks" that I have used like everyday knowledge in other country, like using sponge to clean potatoes. You do not actually use the sponge to peel potato completely. We use it for fresh young potatoes, where the peel is tender and you do not want to remove it completely, because boiling young potatoes WITH peel is what makes them taste so good - with salt and butter - Yum! But what you want to do, is to clean them from sand and dirt. And sponge is so good for that. Quickly scrub them over with sponge and into the pot. You can do the same for carrots, where the peel is looking nice. No need to completely peel them, sponge clean will be enough.
I do that trick with all my veggies to rehydrate them. When my salade looks sad, celery, carrots, radishes etc.. I put them for at least half a day to a night long in water. They rehydrate and become like fresh and crunshie !! Excuse my english I am French
That’s going to be one expensive cocktail with the fruit hack since your oven was on for 8 hrs! 😂 Fun video to watch.
Thx&see ya😂
So I wash my fruit in the vinegar wash but I do rinse. Then I make sure they're extremely dry by first leaving them in a colander then I lay them out on paper towels in front of a fan for a few hours. I then line a bowl with paper towels, page all the berries in there, cover with paper towel, and then plastic wrap. Keeps for 2 - 3 weeks and looks like the day I bought them.
If you rub garlic on your fingers, you introduce extra oil which will ruin any attempt to whip the egg whites. Not a "hack fail", this is sabotage.
The egg hack has nothing to do with scooping it up. Obviously, that is easy. It has to do with pinching it to pick it up, which is very hard.
I have also seen the hack where people say to wet your fingertips. Idk that just seems like a lot. Just crack the egg and scoop it out. I don't need garlic fingers.
For the ice cream sandwich one, I don't think I would want to be eating all the cooties from people stocking, the shopping cart, the cashier ect. It's the same thing as licking the packaging of your groceries.🤢
*Many* moons ago (high school), I worked for Baskin Robbins. We cut our ice cream tubs with a stand that had a blade to cut the cardboard and then used a wire to cut the ice cream. Like how they cut cheese wheels. So much better than trying to use a big chef’s knife.
My nana makes the dehydrated orange things as Christmas decorations and to make the bathroom smell nice :)
The lettuce trick is for iceburg lettuce, its how I learned to prep lettuce when I worked at A&W as a teenager. Also, the paper towel on the bottom of the container works for most fruits and veggie - its how i keep my produce.
Can you do a video on Canadian specific foods- flavors, things you do differently and explain what they’re like for us non Canadians?
You don't want to soak raspberries, you shouldn't wash them until right before you eat them because they just hold water.
I've been using the lettuce hack forever because its what my mom always did. But we only did it with heads of iceberg lettuce.
the vinegar method works best if you let them air dry on a paper towel or drying mat before putting them away. Towel drying doesn't get all the moisture off and you risk squishing the berries.
Raspberries disappear too fast in my house. No need to store them. Blackberries might last a few days but not usually unless I freeze some.
Love the hack testing videos! Please do more of them. But Christoper looks like a grumplemuffin here
Love you and your channels!!! What about using your air fryer for the dehydrating of your fruit. I have a Ninja Foodi and there is a dehydration setting.
egg yoke hack: crack the egg into a bowl, grab an empty plastic bottle, squeeze it, put in on top of the yoke while squeezing, unsqueeze, the yoke will get pulled into the bottle. to take it out, just squeeze the bottle again
You should never wash your berries such as raspberries or blackberries until right before you eat them because you’re also rinsing out flavor and diluting it
The lettuce trick has been around for a long time.
Ok the berry one is a lie you DO HAVE TO wash the vinegar off I’ve been doing that
I have literally done the lettuce thing since I was 8 I'm 47 that was not a head of lettuce. So much harder I think.
The chocolat hack will only work with water in the bowl with the ice. Not only ice cubes. And you don't refreeze them.
You can absolutely grow that lettuce stump. I do it all the time in my little Canadian raised garden on my deck. Water first until it roots, then plant.
For the cold water hack we used to ice water and a splash of lemon juice to crisp veggies. And the lettuce hack is best for iceberg. All restaurant secrets 🤣
Hitting the lettuce works with iceberg lettuce. I've don't that for years
If you wrap your unwashed celery in tin foil it will stay crisp for over a month. I learned this from Martha Stewart and it works really well!
Vinegar water for berries at our house! But also because it’s cleaning them and making me feel better about my kids eating them.
Is Christopher from Winnipeg? Saw his Bomber shirt and now wondering if he is a fellow Winnipeger.
I like the potato hack where you score the skin around the width, instapot, cool, and the skins come right off.
I have heard that if you use mason jars after you wash your berries with vinegar and dry them that it will stay fresh for a couple weeks in the fridge!!!
Sweet Clementine! Bah Bah Bah...Good times never felt so good.
I wonder if the citrus would dehydrate better or faster on parchment paper 🤔 oh,oh,oh ooorrr on a cookie cooling rack !!
We make our own ice cream sandwiches all of the time by just scooping ice cream on to store bought cookies. Its easier to do if the ice cream is a little soft. Wrap them with plastic wrap and freeze. Best after being in the freezer for a few weeks so the cookies can soften a bit.
As someone that lives alone my carrots and celery often go bendy I often leave them in cup of water in my fridge door till I use them. I tend to let the carrots go bendy and then put them in the water overnight before I use them. I also put spring onions in a glass of water on the windowsill they stay firm and actually grow a little too