Showing posts with label Tips and Tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tips and Tricks. Show all posts

3.30.2013

Tip of the Week– Hard “Baked” Eggs

Yes, I know, another Tip of the Week in one week? Only because it's Easter and there's still time to use this for your egg dying extravaganza!!!

I’ve bee patiently waiting for my oven to be fixed for about a month now. I need one little part and of course it was on back order. Ugh. I never realized how much I depend on my oven!! It’s so hard to convert your cooking methods from the oven to the stovetop!!

Anyway…it’s FINALLY fixed, and just in time for Easter, so I decided to try out the baking method for hard boiling eggs!

I found this great article on just how to do it at Greeting’s From the Asylum, so stop by and check it out for details.

I only had 6 eggs left so I adjusted my cook time to 25 minutes.


Eggs baking framed



Patiently Waiting framed


As my children patiently waited for the eggs to bake and cool, I wondered to myself, will the eggs be overcooked since the recipe calls for a dozen to two? Hmmm.

After baking, as instructed, I placed the eggs in an ice water bath. Since my goal was to dye them, I didn’t peel them right away.





Eggs cooling framed


Here are the pretty dyes eggs, courtesy of those two cute kids you saw a bit earlier!!! And the one in the back is another blown egg that I decided to draw on as opposed to decoupage, but that didn't turn out so well!!


Dyed eggs framed


And now for the burning question we all want to know…did baking eggs produce quality hard boiled-ness???


Baked egg and shell framed


Perfection! This tip is a success! Peeled super easy, and tasted just as delicious! I will make mention, however, that if you like your yolk less crumbly, you could could tweak the time baked. Again, as I only have 6 eggs to deal with, I believe that I could have taken another 5-10 minutes off the cook time.

Enjoy just in time for your Easter celebration!







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3.24.2013

Tip of the Week – Lemon juice & rust

 I saw a pin on Pinterest showing how lemon juice gets rid of rust spots on knives. Almost all of my knives are rusty and it drives me CRAZY!! So, why not give it a try! Does it work? People claim it works and it’s all over Pinterest, so I put it to the test. Did it work for me?

Here’s my knives with their rust spots. The Pampered Chef Santuko knife I use all the time, and it’s starting to show some rust.  My other Farberware knives are completely rusty. Ugh.

Knife before 1                                         Soaking


Well, after 10 minutes of soaking (I didn’t have a lot of lemon juice on hand, so only the tips really got a good soak) and a light scrub with the abrasive side of the sponge…

10 minutes
NOT IMPRESSED. At all. What-so-ever.

So, I dumped them back in again and let them soak for another 15 minutes, and viola…BOGUS!

30 min soak


Obviously lemon juice doesn’t work. I’d sure love to know how others who’ve tried this - and had it work -  did it. Maybe my lemon juice was bad? Is there a secret trick I’m missing? Share with me your success.
Here’s a comparison…do you see a difference? Maybe I need glasses!

Comparison


All I can say is that my experiment with lemon juice and rust is a failure!! I wasted what was left of my lemon juice and a half hour of my life! Just kidding. A good ‘ol fashioned Brillo or S.O.S. pad is far easier, saving time, effort, and money!! Look! Fabulous results!! (sorry it’s a bit blurry…so much for iPhone camera!)

Scour pad after


Have any of you tried this before? If so, did it work? If not, did you try any other methods?

Keep on keeping on!






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