The Art of Maximizing Kitchen Tools: Essential Pro Tips from Home Cooks

Cliff shares his essential pro tip for home cooks, emphasizing the importance of utilizing and maximizing basic tools in their kitchens. He focuses on the humble dish towel, a staple in every kitchen, and reveals a simple yet ingenious hack to transform it into a base to hold vinaigrette.

By placing the bowl within the towel, Cliff demonstrates how this clever trick can hold ingredients together while whisking. This innovative technique allows home cooks to effortlessly mix their dressing without making a mess. The use of a dish towel as a makeshift salad spinner is another game-changer for those looking to simplify their kitchen routines.

The benefits of using a branded towel, like an official kitchen-branded towel, are highlighted by Cliff. These specialized towels work better than traditional kitchen towels and can make a significant difference in the overall efficiency of meal preparation. This clever hack showcases the potential that lies within everyday objects, waiting to be repurposed for greater convenience.

Jeff Alex shares another ingenious idea: turning stale bread into breadcrumbs using a box grater. By choosing any type of bread, whether it's ciabatta or white bread, and shredding it with the grater, users can create an endless supply of breadcrumbs. The process is surprisingly easy and requires minimal effort, making this hack a must-try for home cooks.

Alex takes it further by suggesting that homemade cauliflower rice can be easily prepared using a box grater. By cutting the cauliflower into quarters and then shredding it, users can create a nutritious and versatile ingredient for various dishes, from fried rice to risotto. The added benefit of being able to freeze this cauliflower rice in a zip-top bag makes it an excellent storage option for future meals.

The discussion highlights the importance of exploring new ways to utilize existing kitchen tools and ingredients. Home cooks are encouraged to think creatively and discover innovative solutions that can simplify their cooking routines, making the most of what they already have.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encliff can you give us one of your essential pro tips for the home cook yeah so every home cook should be able to utilize and maximize the you know the basic tools that they have in their own kitchens and that what i'm talking about is the dish towel we all have them laying around um we all use them to clean up spills and wipes and uh whatnot but i'm gonna show you actually how to turn it into a base to hold your vinaigrette so just using you know a simple kitchen hack of putting your bowl in the towel like this this is a good one i haven't seen this before this oh yeah one of those chefy chefs yeah so yeah so it'll hold the bowl in place and then you can whisk in all the rest of your ingredients whether it's a mustard whether it's your olive oil and then what we're gonna do is take the towel and use it as a salad spinner so it's your little giant so it's your little giant salad spinner so after you've rinsed all of your greens and they're all nice and wet and damp you're gonna then take it put it right in the center of your towel just grab the ends fold it up like that and then use your centrifugal force and then spin it around like this lightly so you don't bruise your greens take it out and then now you can go right in your bowl and dress and dress with your vinaigrette that you just finished oh cliff you know i really like that tip because i feel like my salad spinner is so clunky and it takes up all kinds of space in my cabinet to just be able to use a kitchen towel that's a good one the most brilliant part about that salad spinner is that it's an official kitchen-branded towel which obviously works better than traditional kitchen towels this is a fact all right thanks for helping us share these essential pro tips please stop by any time promise thanks guys i appreciate it see you cliff thank you thank you me too thank you excited to see it now we've got some essential tips on how to use another kitchen tool everyone has you're greater so we have some great ideas i like that old tools new tricks we do it all the time all right what do you got jeff alex instead of throwing away all that stale bread on your countertop in your freezer let's make some bread crumbs on the box grater so easy i got some ciabatta here right you know super hard you just take this end of it and you start going at it kind of creating that level plain this is good look at you're right you're using whatever bread you want you if you want finer bread crumbs you can use the finer side of that yeah you know and you got yourself breadcrumb for days you got white bread sliced bread whatever boom breadcrumbs huh katie you got another great idea idea yes all right my tip is to use your nifty little grater there to make your own cauliflower rice okay it's so easy and it's cheaper than buying you just buy a head of cauliflower and you shred it up yourself so i'm just gonna cut it into quarters okay and then you just take your box grater onto a little dish so it catches it and you start grating this too you get that same like bigger pieces smaller pieces so you get a really nice texture i really like to use cauliflower rice to make like fried rice mm-hmm i think that tastes great you can also do it like a little risotto so there you go look at that so easy and you can even freeze this in a zip top bag and throw it in the freezer youcliff can you give us one of your essential pro tips for the home cook yeah so every home cook should be able to utilize and maximize the you know the basic tools that they have in their own kitchens and that what i'm talking about is the dish towel we all have them laying around um we all use them to clean up spills and wipes and uh whatnot but i'm gonna show you actually how to turn it into a base to hold your vinaigrette so just using you know a simple kitchen hack of putting your bowl in the towel like this this is a good one i haven't seen this before this oh yeah one of those chefy chefs yeah so yeah so it'll hold the bowl in place and then you can whisk in all the rest of your ingredients whether it's a mustard whether it's your olive oil and then what we're gonna do is take the towel and use it as a salad spinner so it's your little giant so it's your little giant salad spinner so after you've rinsed all of your greens and they're all nice and wet and damp you're gonna then take it put it right in the center of your towel just grab the ends fold it up like that and then use your centrifugal force and then spin it around like this lightly so you don't bruise your greens take it out and then now you can go right in your bowl and dress and dress with your vinaigrette that you just finished oh cliff you know i really like that tip because i feel like my salad spinner is so clunky and it takes up all kinds of space in my cabinet to just be able to use a kitchen towel that's a good one the most brilliant part about that salad spinner is that it's an official kitchen-branded towel which obviously works better than traditional kitchen towels this is a fact all right thanks for helping us share these essential pro tips please stop by any time promise thanks guys i appreciate it see you cliff thank you thank you me too thank you excited to see it now we've got some essential tips on how to use another kitchen tool everyone has you're greater so we have some great ideas i like that old tools new tricks we do it all the time all right what do you got jeff alex instead of throwing away all that stale bread on your countertop in your freezer let's make some bread crumbs on the box grater so easy i got some ciabatta here right you know super hard you just take this end of it and you start going at it kind of creating that level plain this is good look at you're right you're using whatever bread you want you if you want finer bread crumbs you can use the finer side of that yeah you know and you got yourself breadcrumb for days you got white bread sliced bread whatever boom breadcrumbs huh katie you got another great idea idea yes all right my tip is to use your nifty little grater there to make your own cauliflower rice okay it's so easy and it's cheaper than buying you just buy a head of cauliflower and you shred it up yourself so i'm just gonna cut it into quarters okay and then you just take your box grater onto a little dish so it catches it and you start grating this too you get that same like bigger pieces smaller pieces so you get a really nice texture i really like to use cauliflower rice to make like fried rice mm-hmm i think that tastes great you can also do it like a little risotto so there you go look at that so easy and you can even freeze this in a zip top bag and throw it in the freezer you\n"