Some Useful Kitchen Hacks

1) To Make your cutlery shine again, clean them with a raw potato.

2) Porcelain crockery will be much shinier if you wash it in water with a little ammonia.

3)Crystal glasses shouldn't be washed in hot water- they can become opaque and covered in small cracks.

4) Glasses will me much cleaner and more transparent if you add some vinegar or coarse salt into warm warer when cleaning them.

5) Stained enamel can be bleached if you boil it with any cleaner and rinse it with hot water.

6) If burned food is stuck to a casserole dish, pour hot water into the dish and add a spoon of baking soda. Leave it to sit for a while and then boil it.

7) Frying pans will become cleaner if you boil 7 full ounce of water with the smae amount of viengar in them. Add baking soda, wait for the reaction to stop, and pour it all out. Then wipe and rinse the frying pan.

8) If some milk boiled over onto the hot stove, pour salt over the sill and cover with a wet napkin. Now the smell won't spread.

9) To get rid of lime scale in your kettle, pour vinegar and water ( 1:2) into it, close the lid and boil it, then wash it thoroughly.

10) Sift flour from time to time to keep it loose.

 
11) If you wipe a faucet with waxed paper, it won't be stained with water for a long time.

12) Knives and scissors are easier to sharpen if you first put them into a weak salt solution for half an hour.

13) To dispose off unpleasant smells in your fridge, wash it with water and lemon juive ( 1:1)

14) Unpleasant smells on your hands ( fish, garlic, onion etc) will disappear if you rub your hands with salt and wash them with soap.

15) A strong smell easily vanishes if you mix half a glass of water, 1-2 tbsops of peroxide, and 1 tbsp of any liquid cleanser. For e.g., you can apply this to a cutting board after preparing fish.

16) Get rid of garlic breath by chewing some parsley.

17) Fish smell disappear from pans when you rub them with salt and then rinse them.

18)  open windows and put 2-3 towels in different places in a room to banish tobacco smell.

 
19) Cutting boards won't smell of onion if you rub them with salt and lemon juice.

20) Your cords won't get tangled if you keep then in toilet roll tubes.

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