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Mike
Carruthers:
Holiday
meals and entertaining present some unique problems, for example,
cold gravy.
Jack Bishop:
Gravy boats of course are really wide and you lose a
lot of heat very quickly and I have a really clever tip of using
a thermal carafe, like what you might use for coffee, to keep
your gravy warm.
Jack Bishop,
Editorial Director for America's Test Kitchen and one of the
authors of the book,
834 Kitchen Quick Tips…
Rinse it out
with hot water, flush it out so it's nice and warm, put the
gravy in there and it just works wonders. Another one of my
favorite tips is, you know this is the time of year where people
might be getting out copper pots. They may be awfully hard to
clean and you don't want to use them all the time - they're
actually really easy to clean if you use ketchup. And the reasons
why ketchup works is it's highly acidic and it's thick, so it
will cling to the copper - so what we do is we spread ketchup
all over the copper, let it sit for five or ten minutes and
then just wipe it clean.
If you serve
hors d' oeuvres with toothpicks at a holiday party, you end
up with used toothpicks all over your house.
And the tip is:
instead of using toothpicks, to use little pretzel sticks, which
are edible and so that someone basically ends up putting cheese
or a meatball or whatever on the end of a pretzel stick and
then your guests will eat the toothpicks, so to speak, as opposed
to leaving them all over your house, so you don't find them
days later.
Tomorrow, the
best way to get kitchen smells off your hands - I'm Mike Carruthers
and that's Something You Should Know.
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