Life Changing Kitchen Tips – Volume One

Yes, I love hyperbole, so let’s get that admission out of way first thing.

HOWEVER.

These little kitchen tips that I’ve picked up recently are so brilliant that I just can’t keep them to myself any longer.

Tip # 1: Avocado Storage


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Tara changed my life by letting me know you can freeze avocados. Did you know this? Man, you are smart, because I didn’t know this. Her suggestion was to cut in half, remove pit and freeze in a ziploc. I’m sure you get bonus points if you have a vacuum sealer, but I do not. No bonus points for me.

I’ve now frozen avocados mashed and whole and both turned out just fine. I generally buy my avocados at Costco and sometimes they get ripe before we can eat them all. Throwing them in the freezer? Totally solved my waste problem. I have only frozen them for a couple of days so far (we REALLY like avocados around here — we’re Californians after all) but I did not notice a weird texture change or anything once defrosted.

Tip # 2: Stirring Natural Peanut Butter with No Mess


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We buy lots of almond butter and other weird nut butters because in a past life we were giant hippies. Oh also: because they are delicious!  I mean cashew butter?  Have you tried this?  You will die.  But it does irritate the heck out of me when I pull them out of the fridge and the oil has separated and I have to stir the whole thing up because it makes a giant mess. Yes, I realize these are First World Problems, but still.

Life changing solution # 2 comes from Sarah who told me: turn the jar upside down in your fridge. Gravity will stir it for you. I mean — WHY THE HELL DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT? And it works! And it is awesome. Now I have more time to stand around in my kitchen and lament the fact that my diamond shoes are too tight or how Garrett’s money clip is just sooooooooo small.

Tip # 3:  Keep Your Apples From Turning Brown When You Slice Them (without citrus!)


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Garrett loves when I out his quirks on the internet and one of them involves apples.  He loves them, but will only eat them sliced (what?)  This baffles me, but whatever.  The problem is, he also will only eat them when they are not brown.  Which gives a window of opportunity of what, three minutes that he can eat apples? So I could never really pack them in his lunch.

But then I found this idea: Slice up an apple and wrap it in a rubber band — it will keep the apple in one piece and it won’t turn brown. I mean, the brilliance of that? Not lost on me.


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Did you know all of these, smartypants?  If so, enlighten me!  Tell me some other kitchen tips have changed your life?

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7 Responses to Life Changing Kitchen Tips – Volume One

  1. Megan says:

    I did not know that about avocados! We keep getting them in our organics share and I never get through them in time. I feel so bad throwing them out. Yeah for a solution!

    I recently learned you can also freeze egg yolks and whites. I have an ice cream habit (who doesn’t?), and I’ve been making it myself. My favorite recipe calls for yolks, so I end up with a bunch of whites. Then I make various other things calling for whites, and I end up with too many extra yolks. I froze the yolks in ice cube trays, each stirred up a little bit, per some tips I found online. Unfortunately we moved about a week later and the freezer wasn’t cold at the new place, so I ended up wasting them. I read that it does change the texture, but since you’re probably going to do something like throw them into your next batch of ice cream or stir them into an egg bake, who cares?

    BTW, apples will also not brown if you dunk them in cold water with a few drops of lemon or lime juice. It doesn’t have to be straight juice. So, you don’t taste any of the citrus, but they stay pretty. (I’m with Garrett, btw — somewhere along the way I stopped eating apples off the core. Skin stuck in the teeth, teeth scraping the skin as you go to bite it….nah, I’ll slice.)

  2. sizzle says:

    These are GREAT tips. Just yesterday someone told me about freezing avocados. Brilliant!

  3. LizScott says:

    Everything single one of these has completely blown my mind

  4. Tory says:

    OMG…The apples. Mind blown. I eat an apple every day and Garrett is awesome because I too will not eat them whole. I don’t mind the brown, but would prefer it without of course! My hubby is weird about brown fruit though-Will definitely try this with next weeks lunches! I need to also check on the integrity of the avocados in my fridge right now. If they are up to no good then into the freezer they go!

  5. Christy says:

    OMG I had no clue you could freeze avocados. I think you have just changed my life. Thank you

  6. Manda says:

    I had NO CLUE you could freeze avocados! HOLY CRAP THAT IS AWESOME!

  7. Kate says:

    I just audibly gasped over freezing avocados. This is life changing. LIFE CHANGING. (Which perhaps indicates that maybe I should change my life by obtaining one?) Regardless, thanks!