21 Simple Food Hacks That Might Help In The Kitchen

If you're anything like us, you've watched the world burn. Not on purpose, mind you, but because you've become an expert in destroying city blocks while trying to bake a pan of brownies.
21 Simple Food Hacks That Might Help In The Kitchen

Food: it's what's for dinner. And breakfast. And lunch. Oh, and throw some snacks in your backpack, too! Gotta make sure you don't get hungry throughout the day. Here's the thing about food, though: it's tough to manage properly, and knowing your way around a kitchen is a lifelong process.

Now, we here at Cracked are not going to pretend that we're Michelin-starred chefs. We're not here to win The Great British Bakeoff and we're not going to Beat Bobby Flay (although we secretly think we could). But! We DO care very much about food—shut up, these Doritos stains are because it's cheat day—and we also care about you, our readers. So today we're going to talk about some easy hacks that maybe make your at-home food experience a little better, maybe punch up a staple dish you're already good at, and honestly? Try to impress your mother. It's doable. Here's how:

Cut Cakes Better ULO When you cut a wedge out of a cake, the remaining cake goes stale quickly. Those spongy insides are great at sucking up moisture and every kind of odor, leaving the remaining cake rock-hard and tasting of unwashed freezer. To keep a cake good until

Source: NPR

French Frying The French fry is a marvel of engineering compared to, say, a baked potato. You can't just fry it; you need the inside totally cooked without the outside getting too brown. Your attempts will generally leave the fry crunchy but still raw, or soft all the way

Source: NPR

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