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5 handy kitchen hacks

To make cooking, baking and drinking even easier.

1. Measure a portion of spaghetti with a pasta spoon
Many pasta spoons have a round hole, like the spoon at the top right of the picture. That hole is there for a reason, you can measure a portion of spaghetti with it. From now on you will never prepare too much or too little.

2. Let your fruit ripen faster Bananas secrete the substance ethylene, which ensures that other fruits ripen faster. Place a ripe banana on the fruit bowl and other fruits will ripen faster. For more effect, you can put the pieces of fruit in a sealed bag. Aren't you supposed to ripen your fruit faster? Then set the bananas aside.

3. Keep your wine cool
Freeze the last bit of wine in an ice cube tray. The next time there isn't a bottle of wine cold, just throw in a few wine ice cubes and you'll have a cold glass of wine in no time.

4. Quickly halve cherry tomatoes You can quickly halve cherry tomatoes by placing them on a plate. Place a plate on top. By cutting between the plates, you halve all tomatoes at once.

5. Check whether your eggs are still fresh
Put an egg in a glass of water. Does the egg sink? Then it's still fresh. Does the egg float? Then there is too much air in the egg and that means that it is no longer fresh.

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