What's magical to me about semi-thawed meat is that when I sink a sharp kitchen knife into the half icy meat, the sound of metal cutting into the meat creates the feeling and sound similar to that when I bite into an ice-lolly. I know it's crazy, right? But semi-thawed frozen meat makes handling raw meat all peachy again for me. In my world 😄
Thus, if I have to cube or slice raw meat, I will only do it when it's half thawed. The sound and sensation of the knife cutting into the half thawed icy meat is pretty therapeutic to me. But this job turns skanky again when the meat is at room temperature and feels soft, bloody, wet, flimsy and almost disintegrating when you handle it. Yucky!
So I always freeze raw meat, or half freeze it before handling it.
Plus cutting semi-thawed meat gives you precision. When the meat is firm in a block, slicing and cubing is made so much easier, and it produces standardized size and shape of meat.
Another kitchen hack that makes my life so much easier is pre-peeled garlic. Pre-peeled garlic sold in supermarkets are not very costly and it can save so much of my time peeling them. I only buy them when the mil is away and I have to take over the kitchen.
After peeling garlic, the next tedious and stinky job is chopping them. Thankfully I have a mini cutter to help me do my job. This mini cutter does not require any battery or electric to operate it. All you have to do is pull a string attached to the cutter several times and voila, you'll get perfectly minced garlic in just seconds. Plus, I find it therapeutic pulling the string HA HA HA!
This vegetable cutter / chopper is very affordable and costs no more than RM20 at Lazada.
What are your kitchen hacks to make your life easier? Do share please!
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