Learn a cooking hack for how to juice citrus without a knife or any fancy tools.

It creates less of a mess and cuts down on waste.

Incorporating lemon or lime juice into your meals can elevate an entire dish, whether its sweet or savory.

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If youre warming up leftovers, a bit of lemon juice can make your days-old meal taste fresh.

Sure, you could do that.

But then youre going to have pulp and seeds to deal with, too.

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And chances are your hands will end up covered in juice.

First, she rolls her lemon on a cutting board to soften it a bit.

Then, she uses a skewer to poke a hole through the lemon.

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After removing the skewer, she squeezes the lemon juice right onto her food.

you’re free to even use a little lemon juiceto prevent your avocados from going bad as quickly.

Jalanbos way of juicing means you wont end up with half a lemon leftover.

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Now you knowexactlywhat to do when life gives you lemons (or limes, or grapefruits…).

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