Kitchen

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

I made some egg salad today.  I thought I'd pass along my quick way of cutting the eggs.

I just put the boiled peeled eggs in a bowl and use my pastry cutter/blender to chop them.  You can do them as chunky or a fine as you want.

I find this quicker than using a knife.

Do you have any kitchen tips or shortcuts you would like to share?

[dex]

I use my can punch to open the seals on jars that I don’t have enough muscle for.I just get the pointed tip under the lids edge and pop the seal.

[ms traditional]

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@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:

I made some egg salad today.  I thought I'd pass along my quick way of cutting the eggs.

I just put the boiled peeled eggs in a bowl and use my pastry cutter/blender to chop them.  You can do them as chunky or a fine as you want.

I find this quicker than using a knife.

Do you have any kitchen tips or shortcuts you would like to share?

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@CrazyKittyLvr2 along the same lines, i pull out my grater and grate the eggs. it gets done in a jiffy.

[Kachina624]

@CrazyKittyLvr2. I've been using a pastry blender to chop up hard boiled eggs my while life.

[Warrior2022]

I use a egg slicer

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

@Kachina624   I've done it this way for a few years now.  I do it for eggs in macaroni or potato salad too.

When I did it today it occurred to me that maybe some have never tried it.  The first time I used the pastry cutter instead of a knife I wondered why I hadn't done it from the get go.

[Alison Wonderland]

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@dex wrote:

I use my can punch to open the seals on jars that I don’t have enough muscle for.I just get the pointed tip under the lids edge and pop the seal.

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Great idea! I use a butter knife. I live alone and tried everything else and the butter knife popped the seal, saving me from having to ask a neighbor to open my spaghetti sauce. I'll have to try the can opener trick, as I'm always worried that the butter knife is so thin it will break.

[Eliana]

That's how I have always done it, and how my mother has always done it.  She also chops her potatoes for potato salad that way.  I like my potatoes a little chunkier in potato salad, so I don't use it for those, but  I do use it for left-over potatoes that I'm going to fry. 

I moisten a couple of slices of bread with just a little water, gently squeez the water out and tear it to pieces, add some onion, salt, pepper, and the potatoes that I chopped with the pastry cutter and fry it all up.  My mom made these when I was a kid.  They're my favorite.

[ECBG]

@Eliana I like my potatoes a little chunkier as well.  I don't want everything to stir down into mashed potatoes. Yuck.

[sandy53]

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@Warrior2022 wrote:

I use a egg slicer

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I slice them one direction, then turn the egg halfway around and slice it again to make smal cubes.  Easy.