18 Simple Kitchen Hacks That Will Save You A Ton Of Time

Get the Full StoryGet ready to spend a lot less time in the kitchen.

Here's the easiest and quickest way to cut a WHOLE lot of cherry tomatoes in half in one go:

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And fresh herbs are no problem at all for that handy old pizza cutter you never use.

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Chop your potatoes with ease using an apple slicer. Heck, it's so perfect for the job, they should call them potato slicers instead.

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The easiest way to separate the egg yolk from the rest is with a plastic bottle. Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

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Actually, it works really well with wet hands as well.

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And, since we're talking about it, wet hands are also really useful for picking shells out of cracked eggs as well.

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Get crystal clear ice cubes that will impress any guest you have over for drinks by boiling your water before freezing it.

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After boiling a potato, make a shallow cut all the way around it and the skin should come off quickly and easily.

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Oh, by the way... if you throw an apple in with your potatoes, it'll keep them from sprouting.

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When you're cutting peppers, start at the bottom and cut towards the top to avoid all those nasty seeds.

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I can't believe you don't know about this already, but the easiest way to remove the pit from an avocado is just to stick it with a big, sharp blade then twist.

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Oh, and while you're at it, just dice it right in the shell and scoop out your perfect avocado pieces with a spoon.

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Apropos avocado... If you take the stem off you can peek underneath to see how ripe it is.

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Remove the stem from a strawberry with a satisfying little push by using a straw.

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Peel a mango in no time at all by pushing it against the edge of a glass. It even comes with a built-in mango receptacle.

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If your coffee is too bitter, you can make it drinkable again by adding in a little salt.

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And you'll never again have to scrub off burnt-on stains from your stove top if you just lay a wooden spoon across the top of your boiling pot.

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This post was translated from German.

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