Tips to Make Your Time in the Kitchen as Easy as Possible

1) If a soup or stew is too salty, add raw potato chunks. Discard them after they have cooked - they will have absorbed the salt.

2) Can't remember if an egg is fresh or hard-boiled? Just spin the egg. If it wobbles, it's raw. If it spins easily, it's hard-boiled.

3) To avoid crying while peeling onions, peel them under cold water.

4) To perk up soggy lettuce, add lemon juice to a bowl of cold water and soak lettuce for an hour in the refrigerator.

5) When cooking carrots, peas, or corn, add a small amount of sugar to the water to keep the flavor.

6) To keep sweet corn yellow, add one teaspoon of lemon juice to the cooking water just about a minute before turning off the stove. Also, never salt the water you cook corn in. It will toughen the corn.