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13 Secrets Cooking Only Used by professional Restaurant Chefs

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13 culinary secrets used only by restaurant chefs, we at the bright side love overcoming challenges. That’s why we’ve collected 14 of the most useful culinary hacks that will not only save your time and ease your nerves but also boost your skills in the kitchen. Do you want to know how to prevent a sliced cake from getting stale and make sure that knife won’t slip and cut you while you’re using it.

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13 – Frying perfect hamburger patties

we are sure you want your burger to fry fast and evenly form a dimple in the center of the patty before throwing it on the pan it’ll disappear by time passing the burgers are ready since they even out. At the same time, they cook, and this simple trick will cut down the cooking time and prevent that annoying weird burger bubbling we’ve all witnessed at one time or another.

 

12 – Cutting a beautiful piece of cake

you’re probably all too familiar with the problem of cake sticking to the knife. When you go to slice it, you always get that mini panic attack as you watch the beauty of your dessert being ruined by your own hand. To avoid this problem, put the knife under hot running water, hold it there for some time, and then cut your cake. This simple gesture will prevent the sweet goodness from sticking to the blade.

 

11 – Making a lemon juice spray

it’s actually pretty easy to make your own lemon juice spray it takes a small spritzer into a lemon, and it’ll work just like any other kitchen or bathroom spray if you feel like the liquid inside pump it has run out squeeze the lemon, and you’ll get more juice out of it.

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10 – Determining portion sizes with your hand

sometimes you don’t have a kitchen scale on hand, but the recipe calls for exact measurements. No worries. Just use your own hand to measure out the portions you need when we’re talking about things like butter, margarine, or mayonnaise. Your fingernail will help you out. Its size equals one teaspoon of these types of ingredients to weigh fish or meat. Put it on the palm of your hand if it fits just within the palm, it weighs about three and a half ounces. If you really need to determine the correct portion of chips or crackers, you have again poured them out into your palms two handfuls of these crunchy delights will equal about one ounce or you could just eat the whole bag nobody’s judging one handful of pasta rice or beans will be the same as 1/2 a cup of these products the size of your thumb will equal one or two tablespoons of cheese or peanut butter and finally to get the right measurements of grains soup fruits and vegetables remember that one fist is the same as 1 cup of these foods.

 

9 – Preventing the knife from slipping

the kitchen can be a dangerous area especially when you’re dealing with sharp objects like knives you should always keep knife handles clean and grease-free but if you want to take extra care to stop your knife from slipping wrap some rubber bands around the handle.

 

8 – Figuring out how sour a lemon is

there’s one simple trick here the thinner the peel the more sour the lemon armed with this knowledge you can go to the grocery store and confidently choose the best option for your citrus fruit needs if its outer shell feels a bit soft its sourness is somewhere in the middle of the range while the harder lemons will bring tears to your eyes.

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