12 cooking hacks you wish you had known about sooner
4. Peeling kiwis and mangos
We usually eat kiwis by cutting them in half and eating the fruit with a spoon. But what if you want to eat a fruit salad? Simply get yourself a glass and a knife. Half the kiwi lengthwise with the knife. Then push the kiwi out its skin using the rim of the glass. The same goes for a mango. Cut the sides off the mango and use the rim of the glass to get the mango out of its skin. It’s a lot easier than cutting the mango with a knife!
5. Needle in a banana
Do you also feel a bit awkward when you eat a banana in public? With this cooking hack, you take your banana with you pre-cut in its skin. You start at the top by sticking a needle in the banana at the longest curved side. Next, move the needle from the left to the right through the flesh of the banana. Repeat this process a few times with a few centimeters in between until you reach the bottom. Then when you peel your banana, it will be sliced and ready to eat!
6. Cutting a bell pepper
Do you think that cutting a bell pepper is a difficult job with all those seeds inside? This is the best way to go about it. Cut with a sharp knife the top and the bottom off the bell pepper. The middle of the bell pepper now still has the core with the seeds in it. Then cut the bell pepper sideways and sever the threads that connect the flesh to the core. Now you can cut your bell pepper easily into pieces. Push the stalk out of the top with your fingers to cut that up the top as well.
