1. Keeps Cake Fresh - store cakes with a half of apple to keep the cake nice and moist.

2. Roasting The Perfect Chicken - stuff a whole chicken with an apple to keep it moist while cooking (discard apple afterwards).

3. Loosen Up That Brown Sugar - simply place a apple wedge in a bag of hardened brown sugar and tightly seal the bag and wait a day or two to soften.

4. Ripen Tomatoes - place unripened tomatoes with a apple in a paper bag for a couple of days.

5. Too Much Salt - if your soup or stew is too salty, simply add some apple wedges for 10 minutes. The apple will absorb excess salt.