7 Kitchen Hacks & Tech Tips For Foodies

If you’re using your tablet computer to refer to recipes while cooking, you’ll probably find that you don’t want to touch the screen mid-prep with hands covered in oil, flour, or raw chicken juices. Instead of having to repeatedly wash your hands, try picking up a baby carrot to use as a stylus for scrolling. When you’re done cooking, simply throw the carrot away.

Following recipes on an e-reader is super convenient, but it’s sometimes difficult to read the screen when it’s flat on the countertop. Here are two handy fixes that make it a little easier to bring your tech into the kitchen.
A. Knife stand podium diy
1. Use velcro to attach a piece of wood that’s a few inches longer than the e-reader horizontally on the slanted part of a knife block.
2. Rest the e-reader on top of the wood for a stand that’s built right in to something you already have sitting on the counter.
B. Plate stand recycling
Try putting an old-fashioned plate stand to use. The easel-like tool secures the tablet and keeps it upright for easy reading. (the stand also works for traditional cookbooks.)

Use this smart trick to keep track of what you need to pick up at the store: simply snap a picture on your phone of items as soon as they’re empty or right before you use the last one and then add the photos to an album titled “groceries.” You can scroll through the photos at the store and delete the pics as you make your purchases.

Instead of writing down the ingredients you need for a particular magazine or cookbook recipe, try this high-tech solution: snap a picture of the ingredient list with your smartphone. You can easily reference it at the market to be sure to grab exactly what you need.

Keep a photo album on your smartphone with pictures of the ingredient lists from your favorite go- to recipes. That way, the next time you’re out shopping and you haven’t made a list ahead of time, you can swipe through your collection right at the store.

Create a checklist that catalogs the contents of your pantry. Your computer makes it easy to alphabetize and update the list. Keep a printed copy of the list taped to the inside of your cabinet to help you track your staple ingredients. Then you can just take a quick picture of the up-to-date checklist with your phone before you go to the supermarket for a reminder of which pantry items you have in stock and which ones you need to pick up.

Keep track of new products you’ve tried and how they turned out by keeping a taste-test photo album on your smartphone: use the camera to snap a picture of anything you try with either a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down alongside it. Next time you’re at the store you’ll have a built-in shopping guide you can scroll right through to know exactly what to buy.