Handy hack for baking with sticky ingredients
If you bake regularly, you may have baking spray at home (available at virtually every supermarket). I alternate: if I can grease a baking tin with softened butter and a pastry brush, I do that, but if there are all kinds of complicated corners, nooks and crannies, and rings involved, I open the front door and spray something greasy outside the tin with a bit of spray (my neighbors probably think I’m crazy). And that spray also comes in handy at other times!
Because it happens quite often that a recipe calls for a certain number of milliliters of something incredibly sticky. Peanut butter, for example (although that’s also often specified in tablespoons or grams), or honey, or maple syrup. It’s incredibly annoying when it sticks to your measuring cup, and then you start scraping along the edges with a knife or something, and it sticks to your knife, and then to one finger, and then to the other finger—in short: what a hassle.
Nice and smooth
But you don’t have to deal with that if you simply spray the measuring cup (or the spoon you’re using) with a thin layer of baking spray first. These are generally very neutral, although you can of course use a neutral oil by putting a drop on a pastry brush to grease it. That’s just one extra step, and a little more washing up.
Grease lightning
You can also use baking spray to grease a standing grater like that (which you can also lay down) before grating cheese, so it sticks much less. It also seems to help prevent stains in your Tupperware containers; although plenty of people know what to do if you want to know how to remove them when you haven’t managed to prevent them.
Also read:
- 10 kitchen hacks from professional chefs
- 5 common mistakes to avoid when baking banana bread
- This is the golden tip for that last bit of peanut butter
Source: The Kitchn
