Did you know that you can equip your kitchen with lots of gadgets to make it easier to prepare your food daily? Oh yes, there are lots of fun gadgets out there to design your kitchen.
This is my first blog post and in the course of this series, I will be writing about lots of kitchen gadgets that can be very useful for your homes. I'm also going to be writing about other home ideas that can make life fun and simple. So make sure to stick around!
People always say that technology has made life expensive, but in my own opinion, technology has also made life easier and faster for us. With technology, we accomplish more things in a shorter period of time.
HOW TO USE SLICER ON BANANAS
Okay let's talk about the kitchen aid tool called banana slicer. The banana slicer is a kitchen aid tool that helps you slice your bananas into even pieces . It perfectly slices bananas in seconds to get your thin layers. Just hold it over a bowl or plate and then squeeze, your bananas will just come out in even sizes and shapes. It can also be used to slice sausages, eggs, cucumbers, plantain etc.
USES OF SLICED BANANAS
Sliced bananas have varieties of uses. They can be used to garnish a vegetable salad. They can be deep fried in oil to serve as chips. Some people prefer to air fry their banana chips so they become crisp. Banana chips are good source of healthy snacks. Kids like chips too. On rare occasions, banana slices can be used as toppings for pizza. Yes, you heard me right, pizza toppings! I have seen it once. There could be other uses of banana slices I didn't mention here. Feel free to add yours in the comment section.
HOW TO USE THE SLICER ON SAUSAGES
The method to use humble slicer to slice sausages is basically the same method. Just firmly hold your slicer against the sausage, make sure to hold unto a bowl or plate. So the slized even contents will drop into the plate. Then you squeeze tightly, you squeeze the slicer against the body of the sausage. In the case of sausage, you will need to apply more pressure as compared to banana. Banana is set softer than sausage. The sausage will be evenly divided into thin equal slices.
USES OF SLICED SAUSAGES
The most common uses of sliced sausages is for use as pizza toppings. Sausages serve as delicious meat in pizza. In fact they are the base of every pizza crust. They are usually added first before adding other toppings. There are different types such as the beef sausage, turkey sausage, pork sausage. Individual choice varies but they all have one thing in common. They can all be sliced with the kitchen banana slicer.
KITCHEN SLICER FOR EGGS
Yes as I earlier mentioned that the slicer can also be used to slice eggs into thin equal sizes. It is actually hard to manually slice eggs into thin equal parts with the use of a knife. There is an 80% likely chance that the egg will disintegrate. Now, I am referring to boiled eggs, not the raw ones. The technique of using the slicer on boiled eggs is basically the same method as that of bananas. Place the egg inbetween the slicer and gently squeeze to divide the egg into equal slices. I emphasize the word "gentle " because as we all know, eggs are very fragile. So we must do it gently.
USES OF SLICED EGGS
Now one might be wondering, why slice eggs? What are egg slices used for. I have two answers for you. The first tip is; thinly sliced eggs are used to garnish salads. Could be used on vegetable salads or other types of salad. The second tip is that sliced eggs are great condiments on baked foods like baked rolls, baked pies, baked egg rolls etc. If you are the type that is into baking, having the kitchen slicer as a handy tool could be of great help. And a cool little additional tool in your kitchen.
FOOD SLICER FOR HAM
I love ham, mmm they are so yummy. I love to eat ham in a sandwich for breakfast. These days, the price of ham is quite expensive. Did you know you can also use the food slicer to slice your ham. Yup that's one good use of this kitchen gadget. It's use is basically as straight forward as shown in the picture. Just place your ham inbetween the teeth of the food slicer and glide gently to evenly slice your delicious ham. It's preferably to slice cooked ham as it is softer.
USES OF SLICED HAM
Sliced ham has a wide range of uses. As stated earlier, I love to use for sandwiches. I think that's the most popular use of sliced ham. Place it in between two slices of bread, add some lettuce, onions, tomato sauce or mustard sauce and toast in the sandwich maker. Other uses of sliced ham are for fillings in baked pies. They may be other uses I am unaware of.
FOOD SLICER FOR CAKES
The food slicer can be used to neatly slice cakes. Majority use knives to slice cakes, but when you want to slice cakes in large quantity, a food slicer can come in handy. This is to prevent the cake from crumbling. It also makes the job faster. A fairly large slicer would be needed to cut a cake, unlike the conventional slicer used for slicing eggs or banana. It is usually advisable to let the cake cool down before attempting to slice into portions.
USES OF CAKE SLICES
Cake is commonly served as desert after eating the main dinner course. Cake slices can also serve as a snack for the kids to use at school. Or simply a family breakfast snack, it goes well with milk in the morning. Cake is equally served during festive occasions like a birthday party.
From this write up, you can see that the kitchen gadget These are the uses of a kitchen food slicer. I hope you learnt something today, thanks for reading.
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