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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Small tips to make your life easier in the kitchen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There are useful tips to use in the kitchen, sometimes inherited from our grandparents and sometimes acquired with experience. These small tips are excellent to help to solve some problems that may arise with a new kitchen; some may already be known, others are old but are nowadays considered ecologic tips.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coffee beans are great for absorbing less pleasant odours from hands.
\n\u2022 If you can not separate the clear egg yolk only from the eggshell, and carefully pour it into a hopper placed above a container: the yolk will be trapped and light fall into the container.
\n\u2022 To remove the hands smell of garlic or onion, rub your hands in a steel spoon \u2013 it supposedly absorbs odour.
\n\u2022 If you put too much salt in food, add a peeled potato as it will help absorb the excess salt.
\n\u2022 When boiling eggs, add them a pinch of salt, it prevents them cracking during cooking.
\n\u2022 Don\u2019t put citrus or tomatoes in the refrigerator as low temperatures remove their flavour.
\n\u2022 To be able to extract more juice from a lemon or an orange just put them in the microwave for a few seconds before squeezing them.
\n\u2022 If you are preparing a sauce and it accidentally burns, pass it to a clean pan, continue cooking and add a little sugar – but not too much not to make the sweet sauce – the sugar will eliminate the burned odour and flavour.
\n\u2022 To clean an iron grill, you must only do it with salt and a dry paper towel, instead of using detergent.<\/p>\n

\u2022 To clean an electric kettle full of lime, just boil a mixture with one part of white vinegar and another of water, pouring the mixture at the end.
\n\u2022 When storing plastic containers like Tupperware with nothing inside, put in them a pinch of salt to prevent odours.
\n\u2022 If you burn dry rice, just put a slice of white bread on top of the rice, replace the lid for 5 minutes to soak the burned taste. When serving the rice, be careful not to remove the rice that was burned.
\n\u2022 Before cutting a chilli pepper, rub a little bit of vegetable oil in your hands so that your skin does not absorb the spicy oil.
\n\u2022 To check if your eggs are good to eat, just put the whole egg in a container with water, the eggs that remain in the background are fresh.
\n\u2022 To eliminate the ants from the kitchen, discover where they are coming from and put a little bit of petroleum jelly, ants can not pass through the jelly
\n\u2022 Do not mix bananas with other fruit: Place the bananas in a separate container. Bananas release gases that make the other fruits, and even other bananas, ripen very quickly. If you do this fruit will last longer.
\n\u2022 To prevent sprout potatoes, place an apple between them.
\n\u2022 If it remains some wine you can freeze it into cubes, and later use it in future cooking.
\n\u2022 To clean gaps and corners in containers, just put an Alka-Seltzer tablet and water: air bubbles will clean itself the edges of the container where you can not reach.
\n\u2022 Place charcoal inside the fridge, it is also a great way to eliminate bad odours.
\n\u2022 After cooking pasta or potatoes, leave the cooking water stay cool and water the plants with it; plants love this water as it gives them nutrients that make them stay healthier.
\n\u2022 When changing the aquarium water, use it to water the plants, nitrogen and phosphorus from fish faeces are excellent fertilizer.
\n\u2022 When defrosting meat, put a little vinegar over the meat. The vinegar will not only make the meat more tender, but also will help the meat to defrost faster.
\n\u2022 The substance that makes you cry when an onion is cut is at its root, so a cut should be made in the root cone and then you should remove this portion, you will not cry.
\n\u2022 If you make a small cut when cooking, let the wound stops bleeding and put a little clear varnish over the wound to prevent the blood pass to the food you are preparing.
\n\u2022 Put an onion under water after peeling, before chopping, it will also help to reduce the inflammation in the eyes.
\n\u2022 To remove odours from the refrigerator just put a small cup of coffee with vinegar in the refrigerator for one day.
\n\u2022 Sodium bicarbonate is an excellent cleaner. If using baking soda with vinegar you can deodorize pipes, clean counter tops and sinks in a biological and effective way.
\n\u2022 To prevent the brown sugar to agglomerate into lumps, you can put a piece of apple, a piece of bread, or even a piece of terracotta vase in the bag, so that it does not happen.
\n\u2022 If you have a small sliver in your hands, put tape on the area and pull to remove it.
\n\u2022 If you do a little burning when cooking, put a little mustard on the location, you can prevent perched and help reduce pain.
\n\u2022 To make your aluminium pans shine, boil apple peels, in this way you also eliminate other kitchen odours.
\n\u2022 To keep fresh and crunchy biscuits for longer, place them in a jar with a little crumpled kitchen paper on the bottom, place the cookies and close the container.
\n\u2022 To prevent the agglomerate salt, just put some rice grains in the salt bottle.
\n\u2022 To remove fruit stains on your hands just rub them or with vinegar or with a finished potato peel.
\n\u2022 To prevent the bread lose freshness, place a piece of celery in the bread bag and close the bag; celery returns texture and freshness to bread.
\n\u2022 To keep the lettuce fresh for longer in the fridge, just dry it and wrap it in kitchen paper and place it in a sealed bag in the refrigerator bottom.
\n\u2022 Keep always a vase with an aloe vera plant in your kitchen, this will be very useful when you do a burn, a scratch … Pick up a bit of a leaf and rub the gel into the wound.
\n\u2022 If you notice that your cooking is very greasy, throw an ice cube in the pan, as this will cause the fat agglomerate around; this way you can remove it easily.
\n\u2022 To remove the frying oil odour, just put a little ginger root at the end of frying. Ginger will remove any trace of odour and taste of previous fried.
\n\u2022 To clean silver, take toothpaste and a dry cloth and rub the silver, it will get a beautiful shine.
\n\u2022 To remove stains of tea or coffee in dishes make a paste with lemon juice, tartaric acid and baking soda and rub this mixture on the stain; it will come out easily.
\n\u2022 To make ice quickly use boiled water since it freezes faster than tap water.
\n\u2022 To help kitchen cupboards to slide better, put a little candle wax on the hinges.
\n\u2022 If you put a bay leaf into the rice pasta, cereals container it will prevent insects from forming.
\n\u2022 To have a well-smelling dustbin, just rub it with a little lemon juice, orange peel or a little ground tea.
\n\u2022 Whenever you break a glass, take the pieces with a paper towel, to avoid cuts or glass flakes.
\n\u2022 To clean the microwave, just put a bowl with water and 1 lemon slices inside and score around 2\/3 minutes. Then pass a paper towel.
\n\u2022 If 2 glasses are stacked just put some ice in the glass that is in and dive the other in warm water, the temperature difference will make them take off.
\n\u2022 To clean windows mix 2 parts of water and 1 part of vinegar. With newspaper sheets rub the water with vinegar in the glass, they will shine like never before.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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