Kitchen Tips Tuesday Help Please!!

[Ashley]

Does someone have a kitchen tip to share?? Something that makes cooking easier or baking easier, or cleaning the kitchen, anything?? A trick that makes a recipe come out better, a time-saver.. you get the idea!!

Help please!!

[Jojo]

I love making cheesecake and eating it! Who doesn't? Okay maybe 1% of the population. BUT you know what I hate the most? When my cheesecake cracks just as I take it out of the oven. Luckily, I've never had to give a cheesecake as a gift so people overlook the mishap and dig in.

What I found through trial and error to fix this problem is to make sure that all my ingredients are at room temperature and to slowly bring down the heat in the oven once it's done baking. If you bring it from hot to cold too quickly that is where the mishap starts.

I always bake my cheesecake (new york style--no other like it!) on 325 for about 1.5 hours (depending) and then put the oven to 225 and crack the door open until it deflates.

80% of the time my cake comes out PERFECT. The other 20%-- well, just dig in.

[Ashley]

Thanks Jo!! My blogging hero :hehe:

[Jojo]

:hehe: welcome. I actually just shot that out in about 1 min. Quite proud of myself here.:p

[Elaine]

Good one Jo! :twothumbs: :hehe:

Ashley, if you haven't used this one yet you can:

http://www.mothershideaway.com/forums1/showthread.php?t=4069

I haven't come up with any more to add to it yet but after this week I might! I'm doing a ton of baking so I'm likely to come up with some shortcuts. :hehe:

[Ashley]

Oh, perfect Elaine. I'll save that as a draft to post next Tuesday! Thanks :))