re: Kitchen / Cooking tips that you learned late or that you want to share?

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An ounce is a measure of weight, it wont change you shred it or cube it or slice it....

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And this is the problem! In cooking recipes: ounce is used as both a weight and volume measurement. Look at your glass measuring cup where ounce is a volume measurement. 8 ounces (wt) of Shredded or not cheeses of different densities will have different volumes. Most people using recipes assume ounce is a volume as indicated on their measuring cups.\

1 quart for example, equals 32 ounces (no matter the weight) Recipes usually don't point out if ounces used in the recipe are volume or weight. Since you would need an accurate weight scale for small weights in ounces, I assume most recipes assume ounces are a volume measure.

Very confusing!

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Don't strain your canned tuna before making tuna salad. Leave the liquid in. Then you can add less mayo for a very creamy and more healthy tuna salad. I found this out recently with a new brand of canned tuna that had big letters "Don't strain the liquid! Use it!" so I did that and was the best tuna salad I've ever had. I learned this at age 45.

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I’m guessing you use tuna canned in oil? Seems like it wouldn’t work well with water canned tuna.

I do save some (not all) of the oil when I make tuna salad, might just use it all next time