Some Interesting and useful kitchen tricks and tips

Interesting and Useful Kitchen Tricks and Tips 

1. For cleaning smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, just rub them on a stainless steel spoon.
2. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato.
3. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking.
4. To banish ants from the kitchen, find out where they are coming in and cover the hole with petroleum jelly.
5. Toothpaste is a great silver cleaner.
6. When you burn yourself in the kitchen, just spread mustard on the affected area.
7. Water that has been boiled and allowed to cool will freeze faster than water from the tap.
8. Drinking cranberry juice and eating blueberries regularly will help stave off urinary tract infections.
9. To avoid browning of apples once cut, apply some lime on the cut surfaces or put into a container with water and lime juice.
10. If you find lime hardto squeeze, dip in warm water for 5- 10 minutes which will make it easy.
11. Cover unripe fruits with a newspaper and leave it for 2-3 days or keep a ripe fruit along to accelerate the ripening process.
12. Check the freshness of eggs before cooking by immersing them in water. If it sinks, it is of good quality and if it floats then better not to use it.
13. Do not re-use the oil for frying purposes. Use it once and throw away the left over.
14. Add 2-3 cloves to your sugar bottle to keep it away from ants.
15. Add a bit of oil when roasting chili powder to prevent you from coughing.
16. To prevent egg shells from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard-boiling.

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