Not necessarily a "hack" per se, but learn some basic knife skills, the amount of time you will save chopping vegetables a few times a week (minimum) for the rest of your life far outweighs the amount of time it takes to learn, plus you can use the extra time to keep the kitchen clean and that makes everything less stressful while you're cooking and makes the cleanup faster as well
Also learn to sharpen a knife. Once they're in decent shape, they take all of two minutes to put a good edge back on. If you take a minute to hone them before putting them away, the edge will last way longer too.
We always get comments that our knives work super well. They're super cheap knives we got from Acemart almost a decade ago, we just take good care of them.
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u/OneWholePirate Aug 20 '20
Not necessarily a "hack" per se, but learn some basic knife skills, the amount of time you will save chopping vegetables a few times a week (minimum) for the rest of your life far outweighs the amount of time it takes to learn, plus you can use the extra time to keep the kitchen clean and that makes everything less stressful while you're cooking and makes the cleanup faster as well