20 simple kitchen tricks

Surely you have been amazed more than once by the household wisdom and skill of your mothers and grandmothers about everything that is within the kitchen. It was they who told us that a raw egg can be distinguished from a boiled one by simply twirling them on the table, or that coffee from a turkey will not escape if you put it in a bucket with water. All these tricky food and drink handling skills come with experience, and today we want to give you a little theory that is definitely worth putting into practice.

How to keep bubbles in champagne and protect cheese from drying out? How to make yesterday's cupcake crumbly again and not let the bananas darken? These and other subtleties of storing and cooking products that will save your time and money are in our selection of 20 kitchen tricks.

1. Find out the freshness of eggs

2. Prolong the freshness of vegetables

3. Save the bubbles in the champagne

4. Don't transfer lemons

5. Keep herbs fresh

6. Eliminate insects

7. Rid the mushrooms of mucus

8. Make stale muffins fresher

9. Prevent the cheese from drying out

10. Keep vegetables crispy

11. Don't let the liver harden

12. Don't let the bananas darken

13. Keep the salt crumbly

14. Maintain the aroma of the oil

15. Protect dairy products from the appearance of bacteria

16. Clean the honey

17. Keep the moisture in the pasta

18. Save your cheese

19. Use yogurt instead of cream

20. Fix over-salted soup