5 Viral Kitchen Life Hacks That Will Blow Your Mind

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What did we do before the Internet? There are so many viral kitchen life hacks available to us at the touch of a button. Life has never been easier. You will surely impress your friends with these new skills. Enjoy!

1. Homemade Mayonnaise Hack

Finding great quality mayo at the supermarket is super spendy $$. Now, you can make your own, and you won’t believe how easy it is.

Here’s what to do:

Peel 3 hard boiled eggs and place in blender (Nutri Bullet works great)
Add a little water, olive oil, apple cider vinegar and salt
Blend until smooth

2. Garlic Peeling Hack

Peeling garlic is probably one of the top 5 most annoying cooking prep steps. The paper-thin skin flakes everywhere. This garlic peeling hack will blow your mind!

Separate garlic into individual cloves, leaving the skin on. Take a sharp knife and cut through the middle of the fat part of the garlic clove, lengthwise. Separate the clove into two halves, creating a kind of butterfly garlic clove. The skin will come right off. No fuss!

3. Bell Pepper Cleaning Hack

Cutting bell peppers is right up there with peeling garlic. It’s one of my least favorite things to do in the kitchen. I wish I knew about this bell pepper cleaning hack sooner, but better late than never, I guess!

Take one bell pepper, fully in tact. Hold the bell pepper in your hands with your thumbs securely on the stem of the bell pepper. Using your thumbs, push the stem of the bell pepper into the body of the pepper until the stem breaks loose and falls into the body. Tear open the bell pepper.

The stem and seeds will come out in one piece. Wowzers! Life changing!!

4. Egg Peeling Hack

Forcing someone to peel a dozen of eggs is a great form of punishment. Remember that, moms. If your teenager is giving you issues, sit them down with a bowl full of hard boiled eggs and get them to work! There’s literally nothing more annoying. Ugh!

Don’t let your teenager see this egg peeling hack! This is another trick I WISH I knew about way earlier in life. I could have avoided more than moment of frustration.

Here’s what to do:

Take a cooled, hard boiled egg
Crack the end of the egg and peel off just a small area
Take a spoon and insert it into the area you’ve peeled
Roll the spoon around the egg to loosen the shell and remove!
Pick your jaw up off the ground because the hack actually worked!

5. Mango Peeling Hack

So, we’ve touched on garlic peeling, egg peeling, bell pepper de-stemming. What other annoying kitchen tasks can you think of? If peeling and cutting up a mango came to mind, then BINGO, I’ve got you covered. Whenever I cut a mango, I lose so much of the flesh because the pit is huge and awkward to cut around.

This hack will get you the most mango flesh possible! Wahoo!

Using a sharp knife, cut a horizontal line around the middle of a ripe mango. Twist the top half of the mango and pull it off. It will easily break free from the pit.

The next part will require pliers…or your mouth. 🤣 You need pliers to hold onto the pit while you twist and peel off the bottom half. If you don’t have pliers, or you can’t be bothered, simply use your mouth. Bite down on the pit and twist the bottom half of the mango free from the pit. It’s a little wierd, but it works. That pit is slippery!

Next cut the mango into chunks. Using a glass cup, slip each mango piece into the cup, separating the peel from the flesh. That part is a little tricky to explain, so watch the video below to see how it works.