We are used to using the microwave for two purposes: to heat or defrost food. Today we’ll reveal the secrets of what other functions your microwave is capable of!
10. Bring spices to life
All housewives use spices in the kitchen to give ready-made dishes an additional taste and aroma. But sometimes it happens that over time the characteristic smell of spices disappears - do not rush to throw them in the trash. Spices can be reanimated and restore their ability to transmit magical smells to the dish.
Just before adding spices to the dish, put them in the microwave for about 60 seconds. Of course, you need to warm the spices when you remove them from a bag or container. Believe me, the smell will return, and you can safely add seasonings to a hot dish.
9. Resuscitate Hard Bread
It happens that branded borsch is only lacking in bread. And you forgot to buy bread, there was only stale. Or you really really wanted hot sandwiches, and fresh bread in the breadbox, again, is not observed.
Do not be discouraged and do not put off everything for the sake of going to the store, the staleness of the bread can be removed using a microwave. Put the bread in the microwave for 30-60 seconds, believe me, the softness of the bread will return. These manipulations need to be done just before the use of bread, otherwise over time, the former stiffness will return.
8. How not to cry from onions
Again with the help of our life-hacked microwave oven! In order not to sob over the chopping of the onion head - remove the husk, cut the bottom and top of the vegetable and put the onions in the microwave for heating.
After 20 seconds - remove and start cutting. After this procedure, you can not worry over the sea of tears and a headache when slicing onions.
7. Peel the garlic
In the summer, when all the housewives are locked in the kitchen to close a hundred cans of pickles and pickled tomatoes, you have to peel the garlic. A lot of garlic. And this work is tiring, because small teeth are inconvenient to hold in your hand, and indeed you need to clean a lot of heads in a short time.
If you are already tired of peeling garlic, then we suggest you try our life hack: put the head in the husk in the microwave. But not for long, 10-15 seconds will be enough. After you get the garlic, the husk itself will begin to fall off the cloves, and you quickly and effortlessly peel the vegetable.
6. Wash socks
You must admit that sometimes there’s not enough time for hand washing, and running the drum of the washing machine for the socks alone is sheer nonsense. If only a few pairs of socks need washing, then mix in a deep bowl the water and laundry detergent that you usually use. Stoke the socks in the prepared solution and put the bowl in the microwave for 10 minutes. After that, you will need to wash only soapy water from clean socks, which the fabric has absorbed during washing. Very fast and comfortable life hack.
5. Fries in the microwave
Not everyone at home has deep-fryers, but almost everyone loves french fries. Just frying it in a pan - not that the potato becomes soft, you can’t even dream of a crunch. We suggest you cook french fries in the microwave, and it will turn out even better than in the famous fast foods!
To get started, prepare a vegetable. Remove the peel from the potato, remove the eyes, and then chop the potato in a classic free-form form, i.e. a straw. Then let the potatoes dry a little on paper napkins (three to five minutes) or remove excess moisture with napkins yourself. The moisture needs to be removed so that the potato acquires a characteristic crunch when cooking.
Take a wide bowl, lay the potatoes and pour plenty of oil and spices. And then cook at maximum power for 10-15 minutes, periodically potatoes can be checked for readiness.
Eat while hot!
4. How to wash a microwave easily
A microwave, like any thing in the kitchen, is very quickly and painstakingly covered with a coating of fat. It’s very difficult to get rid of oily droplets, and it is even more difficult to get stains on the glass part of the microwave door.
In addition, often from vigorous anti-fat products, there remains an eerie smell of chemistry after a few more uses of the microwave.
Therefore, we offer an absolutely safe, budget and useful life hack on how to clean the surface of the microwave without much effort.
Pour water into a bowl and squeeze the juice of half a lemon into it. Put the prepared mixture in the microwave, turn on the maximum power and leave the “broth” to boil in the oven for 10-15 minutes. After the elapsed time, remove the bowl from the microwave and sponge over greasy spots - believe me, they will easily move away from the walls, and your microwave will sparkle from cleanliness.
3. Sponge washing
Sponges need to be changed at least once every two weeks, since a huge amount of bacteria accumulates on them. But at a time when it is too early to replace the sponge with a new one, you can carry out the disinfection used by the sponge used. For this, a solution from the previous life hack is suitable: water and lemon juice. Put the sponge in a bowl of liquid and microwave for at least one minute.
Then get out, only be careful: do not burn yourself! The sponge will be very hot, in no case do not think to squeeze it immediately, in order to squeeze out excess moisture.
Let the sponge cool down, then you can use it again to wash the dishes, because the bacteria on the soft surface disappeared after the microwave bath.
2. Peel the tomato peel
Here's what really takes a long and troublesome job to peel off a tomato. Especially if it's tiny cherry! If you take off the tomato peel by abruptly lowering the vegetable first in boiling water and then in ice water, then forget about this method. You have a microwave!
Just prepare the vegetables: cut a thin skin, make a couple of punctures with a toothpick and put the tomatoes in the microwave for 20-30 seconds.
From the heat, the tomatoes will soften, and the peel will very easily and quickly move away from the vegetable itself.
1. Life hack that will save the life of your microwave
The most important life hack, because if you do not follow it, then others will not work. Remember that you cannot heat raw eggs, dry or metal sponges, foil and batteries in the microwave.