Normally, I would be posting another recipe of something that I cooked during the last week, but this time I decided to do something a little different. As you may know, this blog was created for the purpose of an entrepreneurship class at Baruch College, and as the last required post, I am deciding to do something that may be a little more interesting to some of my viewers.
Lately, there have been a lot of “food hack” memes spreading throughout Reddit and I wanted to compile some of my favourite “food hacks” and share them with you.
1. Store ice cream in a resealable bag to prevent the ice cream from getting too hard.
2. Cook Lunchables with an iron or a blowdryer.
This is actually a really neat trick. I used to eat Lunchables a lot as a young kid and placed the the pepperoni pizza Lunchables in the microwave to heat it up.
3. Pull the side of condiment cups to increase its capacity.
This one literally blew my mind when I saw it. I’ve been using condiment cups for years at McDonalds and other fast food chains and never realized that I could make the cup bigger. If you’re concerned about going green, you can limit your usage of the condiment cups by pulling its side!
4. Filter cheap vodka with a filtration system for a better tasting spirit.
Now I normally don’t drink vodka, but I’m sure that some of my college student readers would really enjoy this one!
5.
Extremely helpful when you’re boiling pasta.
Now on to my favourite two “hacks” of all time:
6. When you’re almost done with your Nutella and can’t get the remainder off the side of the jar (don’t we all hate that?), put a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the jar. It’s like you’re eating ice cream with Nutella fudge!
7. My all-time favourite food hack is making a brownie in a cup with a microwave.
Ingredients
2 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (please don’t skimp and get the imitation vanilla!)
1 egg yolk
4 tablespoon all-purpose white flour
1 tablespoon unsweetened cococa powder
2 tablespoon semi sweet chocolate chunks (optional)
pinch of salt
Steps
1. Melt butter in a mug.
2. Mix in sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract and salt.
3. Stir in elk yolk.
4. Add flour and cocoa powder and stir until well combined.
5. Add chocolate chunks (optional).
6. Cook for 45 to 60 seconds in microwave.
Bon appétit!