What are your top kitchen hacks?
@abhi_bangal (7678)
Ahmednagar, India
July 13, 2025 2:59pm CST
Here are many ladies on this forum who may be working ladies, but also fulfill their responsibilities as a mother, as a housewife, or a prefect homemaker. This also includes kitchen work, laundry work etc.
Are there any shortcuts or time saving tricks you know? Can you share your top kitchen hacks? That'll help us all 
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@Vikingswest1 (7448)
• United States
13 Jul
I find that ordering Door Dash cuts down on dishes and meal prep and clean up.
In thirty minutes, you can have just about anything, from burgers and chicken to ribs and steak brought hot, right to your door.
Seriously, when I make bacon, I make enough for the week. When I make burgers, same thing, I make 4-6 burgers at a time. I make large meals and divide them into single servings in freezer safe containers.
Same with stew or chili or pasta sauce.
When I want one of those meals, I simply pull them out of the freezer in the morning and they thaw in time for dinner.
I am not a lady though,lol.
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@Vikingswest1 (7448)
• United States
14 Jul
@JudyEv
It saves so much time. Plus, you don't feel like you have to rush to eat it before it goes bad. A pot of stew in the fridge lasts four or five days. If you freeze portions, it lasts six months.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
Did you read the last comment by @Ineeddentures Jim? He is a good friend of mine. He mentioned that he does everything in the house - probably all that ladies do. He is also not a lady. I just meant to say, even men can do all things just like women.
If you don't mind I would like to ask you, why do you prepare so must stuff that lasts for a week? Mate, don't you think you are eating food that's already prepared for days? It'd be great to make them as and when you want to eat.
I've no right to advice you. But I couldn't hold back. That's it.
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@Ineeddentures (13313)
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13 Jul
I'm a home maker, a perfect homemaker at that.
I do it all.
Cook, clean, laundry, dust, vacuum, polish, etc etc
Time saving tricks,
Not really.
I don't try and save time
I am quite happy doing the jobs the way I do
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
That's a new you I got to know. I didn't know that you were doing all this stuff. I wonder how you get time to MyLot when you have so much of work. What you mentioned are almost daily chores. And you don't even don't try to save time LOL... 
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@Ineeddentures (13313)
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14 Jul
@abhi_bangal
I'm so super efficient lol
Mylot is on my phone
It goes everywhere I go
Plenty time
I have been going slow
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
@Ineeddentures Yes, MyLot also goes with my phone wherever I go. I very rarely open it on my laptop. So I can also keep updated on the go. But it's not as much in volume as your's.
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@NJChicaa (124623)
• United States
13 Jul
I meal prep breakfast and lunch jars for the work week. I usually do yogurt/applesauce/fresh apples and then top with granola as I eat them at the beginning of the work day. Salad jars can be anything you want as long as you put the dressing at the bottom or keep it separate.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
Those are indeed time-saving. When you prepare your breakfast or lunch, preparing the items in a bunch definitely helps. It saves time and energy as well. By the way I wasn't aware of the way salad jars are used.
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@aninditasen (17651)
• Raurkela, India
14 Jul
While a working lady the cooked those dishes on week days whose preparation was fast and less ingredients. Where other household work is concerned I used gadgets like washing machine, vaccum cleaner, mixer grinder and so on as house maids these days are very insincere.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
Finding a good house maid and retaining them is a challenge, especially in big cities. Some of them are so whimsical, I'm sorry to say that, that at times it looks as if they are your masters not you. It's we who have to adjust according to their schedule and plans.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
16 Jul
@aninditasen So you might be needing to work a lot of things on your own. I mean how can you depend on a maid if you needed to reach your work place within time, isn't it?
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@aninditasen (17651)
• Raurkela, India
15 Jul
@abhi_bangal I didn't adjust when I worked as I had to reach my work place in time.
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@LindaOHio (200165)
• United States
14 Jul
I can't cook any longer; but I used to spend all day Saturday cooking for the week. Much easier than coming home from work and having to cook.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
That's the home-work balance one needs to do. Cooking once a week and also managing everything along with it, is definitely a challenge. And looks like you have grown used to it.
But upon reading the comment again, it seems like you aren't talking about the current situation. Whatever you described were the good old days.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
15 Jul
@LindaOHio Oh so you were a working lady? But I'm so sorry to hear about your disability 
What's the retirement age there, by the way? Here it's 58 or 60 depending in which government office you are working.
What's the retirement age there, by the way? Here it's 58 or 60 depending in which government office you are working.1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (200165)
• United States
15 Jul
@abhi_bangal Yes, before I retired on disability. I've been retired for 15 years now.
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@amitkokiladitya (172000)
• Agra, India
14 Jul
I prepare the gravy in one go for a few days and store it in ref
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
@amitkokiladitya This means even if there is shortage of ingredients or you can't go buy them, still your urge to eat will not be compromised
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
That's something a lot of people do. That helps them save time when they feel like eating their favourite dish at the eleventh hour.
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@amitkokiladitya (172000)
• Agra, India
14 Jul
@abhi_bangal yes and we don't have to start from scratch always
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
16 Jul
One more similarity between our cultures. We also cook and finish whatever we can in one meal, and save the rest for the next one.
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
14 Jul
That's interesting. So you use it for the extra or the add-on. You are definitely cost-cutting the best way. Because when you freeze it, it'll last longer.
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@Traceyjayne (5046)
• United Kingdom
15 Jul
Some folk would say you are outdated in saying ladies responsibilities are kitchen work, laundry etc ….these days both partners work and many couples share duties ….
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
15 Jul
Here that's not the case yet. Laundry work, looking after households, kitchen, etc are still considered the responsibility of the woman in the house. Even though there are a lot of women who hold various posts in government offices, and in the corporate world, they very proudly say that they are both working women as well as perfect homemakers.
@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
16 Jul
@Traceyjayne Like there are make-dominant professions, it still remains a male-dominated society.
@Traceyjayne (5046)
• United Kingdom
15 Jul
@abhi_bangal so the women make more of an impact than the men then ….
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@abhi_bangal (7678)
• Ahmednagar, India
2 Aug
That's quite good. It doesn't remain dirty and doesn't stain as well.
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