Fast and Easy Cooking Tips and Techniques

Have you ever found yourself struggling with cutting soft ripe cheese? As soon as you start cutting, the cheese sticks to the knife. You can’t peel it of because it’s too soft, so the only way to remove it is to either eat it off the knife (not recommended!) or use a second knife to scrape it off the first one. You will run into the same problem with cheese cake and other soft foods. Here is a very simple solution to quickly and cleanly cut through the problem:

Unflavored dental floss is a great kitchen tool. It’s often better than a knife and cuts easily through soft cheese, rolled out dough, cakes, butter, and much more.

Place your cheese on a cutting board, hold the string of  dental floss with both hands and simply run it through the cheese all the way down until you hit the cutting board. It’s so simple and yet so effective.

After having a party there is bound to be at least a small amount of leftover salsa. Some people would consider just getting a small bag of tortilla chips at the store to finish using it. Others might just consider throwing it in the trash; but what about using it in some scrambled eggs for breakfast the next morning?

Without spending any extra money to finish off the salsa, and possibly other dip items such as a layered bean dip, mixing it into some scrambled eggs will give breakfast a new spin. Any type of salsa or bean dip, or even hot sauce with some sour cream can make scrambled eggs that taste like they should be in a breakfast burrito.

Using leftover chip dips in this way can be a tasty, cost effective alternative to buying more groceries or throwing it out.