Found a $12 trick at a dollar store in Austin that saved my knife edge last month

Picked up a cheap silicone pastry mat there to use as a non-slip surface under my cutting board (you know, the kind with the suction cups?), and it's held way better than the $40 mats I've tried before. Has anyone else found weird kitchen hacks from random places like that?

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nancyw9728d ago

Totally feel you on this. I grabbed a cheap pack of those silicone drawer liners from a discount store for my baking sheets and they work better than the name brand ones I spent way too much on. The nonstick is just as good and they don't slide around like the fancy stuff did. It's wild how the cheap stuff sometimes just works better and lasts longer. Your cutting board mat trick sounds like a solid find too.

the_cameron25d ago

Isn't it funny how we all learned the same painful lesson at different times? Spent way too much on some "premium" baking mats that ended up sliding around and leaving those weird crease marks on my shortbread. Bought a two pack of the cheap ones from a grocery store clearance bin and they've been going strong for three years now without a single wrinkle. The fancy ones are sitting in my drawer looking pretty while the cheap ones do all the work. Maybe the secret is just staying away from anything that uses the word "premium" on the label.

eric72328d ago

Lol "wild how the cheap stuff sometimes just works better" - thats basically my whole kitchen at this point. I got a $5 veggie peeler from the asian market downtown and it shreds through carrots like butter while my fancy $25 one sits in the drawer collecting dust. The cheap liner not sliding around is the real win though, my name brand ones would bunch up and leave weird creases on my cookies. Guess we're all just paying for packaging and hype most of the time.