Here’s a great hack for dealing with little kids in the kitchen. Rather than banning them from the kitchen and turning down their offers to help, this mum decided it would be quicker, safer and more productive to bring the kids into the kitchen, show them how to do things safely and let them help. And it worked.
“It turned out to be far easier to teach the 5-year-old how to use sharp things safely (and with supervision) than to let her try on her own… or to turn the kitchen into a complete hands-off zone.”
The hack came from Grant at 43 Folders, who said it freed up enough of his wife’s time that she now has a blog for cooking with kids, called Junior Kitchen. That is just neat. :)
It’s not bug, it’s kung fu [43 Folders] More »
Here’s a tip which could help spice up a birthday cake for your geeky child or loved one – a kitchen hack for making edible googly eyes. The creators -at the aptly named Evil Mad Scientist Labratories blog – use empty gelatine capsules (like the ones used for vitamins and other pills), hundreds and thousands or cake decorating balls for the ‘pupils’. The pupils are captured in the gel cap, which is gently pushed into a light coloured backing (soft biscuit or a malteser cut in half) to provide the base and the ‘whites of the eyes’.How could a birthday cake *NOT* be improved by this hack? I love it.
One Hundred Percent EDIBLE Googly Eyes [Evil Mad Scientist Labratories via MAKE] More »
