Category Archives: Kitchen tips

You love me? Then sharpen my knife.

When you’re the one doing the cooking in the house, it’s a must to have sharp knives . If you could find a kitchen knife that is sharp as diamond blades that could cut almost anything, then buy one! There is no greater hindrance to the person in the house who does the cooking than…

Tips to keep your kitchen a safe place

If the adage “Never trust a skinny chef” is familiar to you how about this line “never trust a chef without burn marks along his arms”? I knew two local chefs in our place. They’re fat, they got burns and they’re best cooks in the city! Let’s focus on that “burns” thingie. You see, working…

Food Preparation with Vinegar

Vinegar, a sour liquid used mainly in the kitchen as food preservatives and flavoring and for making vegetable pickles and preparing other menus, has always come in handy for those who cook. Here are vinegar tips to solve your kitchen problems like cooking or freshening up wilted vegetables. Poached eggs. Add one teaspoon vinegar to…

Ray’s Rule of Precision works well in kitchen too!

I was watching “The Asia Food Channel” a few weeks ago when I heard the chef mentioned the importance of following Carl Zwanzig Ray’s Rule of Precision in the kitchen too! It goes like this: ‘Measure with a micrometer, Mark with chalk, Cut with an axe.’ The chef just wanted to remind the watchers to…