Joey Green's Kitchen Magic: 1,882 Quick Cooking Tricks, Cleaning Hints, and Kitchen Remedies Using Your Favorite Brand-Name Products

Joey Green's Kitchen Magic: 1,882 Quick Cooking Tricks, Cleaning Hints, and Kitchen Remedies Using Your Favorite Brand-Name Products

Joey Green

Language: English

Pages: 356

ISBN: 2:00364752

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


From the guru of brand-new uses for brand-name products come ideas and tips for culinary fun, cleaning shortcuts, and kitchen cabinet remedies.

Joey Green has fascinated readers for more than a decade with his quirky and innovative tips to make domestic engineering a lot more fun. Now fans will be completely intrigued and entertained by Joey's kitchen- and pantry-focused ideas, like using Canada Dry Club Soda to buff stainless steel appliances and flexible fabric Band-Aids as labels for frozen foods.

Filled with time- and money-saving ideas, Joey Green's Kitchen Magic offers clever ways to make household items do double duty, like using ReaLemon for revitalizing wilted asparagus, L'eggs Panty Hose (clean, of course) for removing corn silk, and Oral-B Dental Floss for slicing layer cake. He shares unusual ideas for kitchen troubles, like stirring in Jif Peanut Butter to save burnt gravy and using Efferdent to clean the coffeepot. Joey even tosses in home remedies from the kitchen (soothe a blister with Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk) and simple recipes (try Slow-Cooker Brisket with a Coca-Cola marinade).

Whether it's a quick fix (Eggo Waffles for hot dog buns, anyone?) or an emergency substitution (Bounty Paper Towel for a coffee filter), there are loads of useful and entertaining tips for making the most of brand-name purchases.

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towels. Food for Thought SAVING YOUR BACON Before frying bacon, soak the strips in cold water for a few minutes. The bacon will curl less in the frying pan. To prevent bacon from shrinking excessively when frying, place the strips of uncooked bacon in a cold skillet before turning on the stove and, as you fry them, prick them thoroughly with a fork. Baking Powder McCormick Cream of Tartar, Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, and Kingsford’s Corn Starch. To make baking powder, mix two teaspoons

in the waxed paper for the stems of the beaters, and insert the stems through the holes. Attach the stems to the mixer, and whip the cream under the waxed paper covering. Reynolds Cut-Rite Wax Paper and Ziploc Storage Bags. To freeze leftover whipped cream, spoon dollops of the whipped cream on a sheet of Reynolds Cut-Rite Wax Paper and freeze. Once the dollops are frozen, put them in a Ziploc Storage Bag and keep in the freezer to use for dessert toppings, allowing ten to fifteen minutes for

piecrust lighter and flakier, substitute Dannon Plain Yogurt for the liquid suggested in the recipe. Domino Sugar. When making tart shells, add some Domino Sugar to the pastry dough to create a more delicate crust when baked—even though sugar will make the pastry dough more difficult to roll and shape. Glad Flexible Straws. To bake a pie without having it boil over, cut a Glad Flexible Straw into three-inch lengths and insert vertically into the piecrust, leaving one end exposed. Bake the pie as

Parsley Flakes. To bring out the flavor of shrimp, add Morton Salt, McCormick Black Peppercorns, McCormick Ground Thyme, McCormick Bay Leaf, and McCormick Parsley Flakes to the cooking liquid. Food for Thought PRIMP THE SHRIMP After shelling and deveining, place the shrimp in a bowl and wash gently under cold running water for thirty seconds. Then place the shrimp in a colander and rinse under cold running water for three minutes. Never boil shrimp. Doing so makes them rubbery. Instead, see

and dry. Cascade. To clean caked-on crud from the inside of a vase, fill the vase with warm water, add one tablespoon Cascade Gel for every cup of water, and let sit overnight. In the morning, rinse clean. The phosphates in Cascade loosen the residue. Clorox Bleach. To deodorize and sanitize a dirty vase, fill the vase three-quarters full with water, add two tablespoons Clorox for every cup of water, let sit for one hour, and rinse clean. Coca-Cola. To clean mineral stains and any residual gunk

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