15 Best tricks for Making Our Favorite Dishes More Delicious

Sick of the boring, same old dishes? Spruce up your meals to restaurants qualities with these must-see hacks for adding flavor to food. After reading this list, you’ll never want to order takeout again.

1. Cook grilled cheese with mayo instead of butter

Step aside, butter — coating the outside of your grilled cheese bread with mayo beforehand is the best way to get a crispy, lighter than air texture that’s infused with even more flavor than before. Yum.

2. Use an electric mixer for creamier mashed potatoes

Lumpy mashed potatoes have become the norm, for most of us. Even when your hands and arms get tired from endless stirring, it seems like you can never get that effortlessly creamy texture. The fix? Use an electric hand mixer, for zero hand pain, and lump-free mashes. If you don’t have a mixer, use a ricer before mashing for similar results.

3. Add soy sauce to buttered popcorn

This bizarre sounding hack sounds disgusting to some, but trust us, it’s not! Adding the umami of soy sauce to creamy, buttered popcorn will actually bring out the nutty, cheese, and savory flavors.

4. Add coffee to brownie butter

This won’t make for an espresso-flavored dessert. Instead, the complex flavor profile of coffee brings out the natural taste of the chocolate. Rather than making for a mocha brownie, it balances out the overly sweet richness that boxed mixes can fall culprit to.

5. Get crispier bacon by twisting it

Take a piece of bacon, twist it, and place these thin rolls on a baking sheet lined with foil. Then, season your bacon and place it in an oven on 400 degrees for about half an hour