{"id":430,"date":"2011-06-28T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-06-28T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:33:15","slug":"quick-opening-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/kitchen-tips\/quick-opening-flowers","title":{"rendered":"Quick Opening Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lillies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-432\" title=\"lillies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lillies-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lillies-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lillies.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>During the winter I do not have enough fresh flowers in the  garden for a party so I shop at the local flower market.\u00a0 I like to buy my flowers unopened a few days in advance so I can control them opening and being fresh for my event.\u00a0 To speed up the opening process for \u00a0your flower replace the water that they are sitting in with warm water.\u00a0 Depending on how tight the flower is it may take more time and you may have to keep replacing the water and keeping it warm.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"jwsharethis\">\nShare this: \n<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:?subject=Quick%20Opening%20Flowers&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chefsjoy.com%2Fblog%2Fkitchen-tips%2Fquick-opening-flowers\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/jw-share-this\/email.png\" alt=\"Share this page via Email\" \/>\n<\/a>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chefsjoy.com%2Fblog%2Fkitchen-tips%2Fquick-opening-flowers&amp;title=Quick+Opening+Flowers\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/jw-share-this\/su.png\" alt=\"Share this page via Stumble Upon\" \/>\n<\/a>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chefsjoy.com%2Fblog%2Fkitchen-tips%2Fquick-opening-flowers&amp;title=Quick+Opening+Flowers\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/jw-share-this\/digg.png\" alt=\"Share this page via Digg this\" \/>\n<\/a>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chefsjoy.com%2Fblog%2Fkitchen-tips%2Fquick-opening-flowers&amp;t=Quick+Opening+Flowers\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/jw-share-this\/fb.png\" alt=\"Share this page via Facebook\" \/>\n<\/a>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=I+like+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chefsjoy.com%2Fblog%2Fkitchen-tips%2Fquick-opening-flowers&amp;title=Quick+Opening+Flowers\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/jw-share-this\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Share this page via Twitter\" \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the winter I do not have enough fresh flowers in the garden for a party so I shop at the local flower market.\u00a0 I like to buy my flowers unopened a few days in advance so I can control &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/kitchen-tips\/quick-opening-flowers\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[176,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chefsjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}