You Must Floss These Foods
As we mentioned earlier, flossing has many practical uses beyond removing dirt between teeth. You can use it as a string instead of wire to hang pictures and to support climbers in your garden. This pillar of good oral hygiene can also cut through some soft foods cleanly and efficiently – minus all the crumbs and flakes that a knife can cause. Here are a few ways you can effectively use dental floss (not waxed or flavored) in the kitchen.
Birthday Cake : Whether you baked the cake yourself or bought it from a store, if it has icing or decorations on it, cutting it can be a delicate act. By pulling a long string (again, no flavors) between two fingers and firmly guiding it along the length of the cake like a saw, you can create clean, crumb-free slices while keeping the decorations intact. Thread the string through the bottom of the cake (instead of lifting it back up), move, and repeat this again until you have as many pieces as you need.
Cheesecake : The same technique can be used for cheesecake, which is usually very difficult to cut. While slices of cheesecake usually stick to a knife or cake cutter, forcing you to drag all the shrapnel through the rest of the cake, a strip of string ( stretched and threaded through the bottom of the cake , as above) will deliver much more. cleaner pieces.
Layer cake : For those who spent an hour making a cake for an event (and then realized halfway through: oh crap, it’s a layer cake ), flossing can come to the rescue. (Or if you just want to save yourself the hassle of preparing and cleaning two cake pans.) Follow this method : Place a few toothpicks in the middle of the edge of the cake, wrap the string around the cake (over the toothpicks) and pull. (Or you can ditch the ruler and toothpicks and freestyle them if you need a little excitement in your life.)
Goat Cheese : Not only is goat cheese soft, but it is also crumbly, making it doubly difficult to slice without making a mess. For simple spreading, a knife is suitable. But if you want those expensive restaurant rounds – and you don’t have any cheese wire – string on some string and thread it through.
Mozzarella Cheese : It is difficult to make fiber-free portions of mozzarella to pair with tomato slices and basil. Use this method from ” Kitchen at Home “: “To slice soft cheeses like mozzarella, try using unwaxed unflavoured floss. Pass the string under the cheese, cross the ends at the top, then pull the string tight to cut through the cheese.
Cinnamon bun dough : Dental floss works better than a knife or pastry knife when cutting cinnamon bun dough. Because, according to Lifehacker Senior Food Editor Claire Lower, when knives and other blades “smear” the dough, “instead of pressing down on the dough, the floss cuts from the outside towards the center with nearly even pressure from all sides, giving your buns of uniform round shape. Follow the technique described here to form the perfect buns.
Hard- boiled eggs : According to Chicago-based Eastman Egg Company , the flossing technique works well for cutting hard-boiled eggs. “Place the egg on the board, tighten the thread, then slowly press the thread against the egg. The result is a clean cut that doesn’t take too much effort to achieve.”