In addition to chopsticks being used to hold meals, stir-fry vegetables and measure oil temperature during cooking, there are actually more useful tricks for cooking or handling ingredients, so learn quickly!
Unexpected chopsticks with 5 tricks
Measure doneness
If you want to test the doneness of some ingredients with thick or filling, such as steamed fish, boiled chicken thighs, steamed buns, meat-filled glutinous rice balls, cucumber inlaid meat, etc., you can poke the ingredients with chopsticks, stay for a few seconds and then take them out, and put the chopsticks on the upper lip to test the temperature.
Stainless steel chopsticks are easy to absorb heat, so in order to avoid burning your lips, it is recommended to use wooden chopsticks or bamboo chopsticks.
Peeling orange
If you want to eat an orange and you don't have a knife at hand, poke your chopsticks into the bottom of the orange and push it diagonally to easily separate the skin from the flesh. When pushing, it is recommended to divide the orange peel into four equal parts, which is a bit similar to the concept of peeling grapefruit, which will be easier to peel.
Remove the cherry seeds
After pulling out the cherry stem, take a glass bottle with a narrow mouth, put the cherry on the mouth of the bottle, the part of the pedicle is facing up, and pick up the chopsticks to poke down from the top of the cherry.
Poke cherry chopsticks, it is recommended not to choose pointed chopsticks, the design of the pointed end will reduce the contact area between the chopsticks and the seeds, and it is difficult to exert force when removing the seeds.
Take the corn kernels
Remove a corn kernel from the bottom of the corn, and then use a chopstick to push down the row of corn from the gap of the corn kernel to shovel a row of corn.
The shape of the corn that has been shoveled up may not be very complete, but once you have one row of corn free, you can start from that row and move to the side to peel the other rows of corn and keep the shape intact.
When steaming racks or insulating pads
If you have unwashed chopsticks at home, or wooden chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks that you want to eliminate, you can try this method.
The density of the chopsticks can be adjusted by yourself, and it does not have to be arranged in a nine-square grid.