A few tips to help you use your kitchen items more productively and for maintaining efficiency in your kitchen.
Coriander stays fresh for long when stored immediately, after bought from the market, with their stems on
Asafetida when used in your daily intake helps you get rid of gastric troubles. It's generally added to oil when it is hot, before adding anything else to it, while cooking.
Never use a plastic cutting board if you want your knives to last longer. Wooden boards are the best for the knives to sustain for a long time.
Keep 3-4 cloves in your sugar container to prevent ants to approaching it
Green chilies can remain fresh for a longer time if stored after cutting their stems
Do not place onions and potatoes together as this will lead to budding of potatoes
Store red chili powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and any other such powders in glass containers to prevent them from staining and for them to remain fresh for a longer time
When your food becomes too salty, add a ball of dough or a piece of potato, depending on how salty the food is
Boiled and mashed potato or some dough helps you get a cooling effect on burns
Turmeric powder, when applied on cuts or wounds, helps remove any germs and stops bleeding
To ripen any fruit faster, cover it with a newspaper of about 3-4 folds
After kneading the dough, apply a little oil on it and knead it again for easy rolling
Putting a steel spoon in the vessel while boiling milk can prevent it from spilling
While boiling noodles or pasta, add some oil and salt to it. Oil prevents them from sticking and salt cooks them faster as well gives a good taste to it.
To avoid crying, while cutting onions, remove the bulb of it before cutting them. The bulb can be removed from the lower part of the onion and by moving your knife further inside to scrape it off. Bulb has the maximum content of sulfur that is the main cause of tears.
or cut them by placing them in water
or place them in the freezer for a while before cutting
Glass bottles of pasta sauce or jams can be used for storing food items in them. So the next time you get jam or pasta sauce from a store, do not throw away the bottles.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are one of the best to ways to give a quick facial to your face
Curd, mashed potatoes or gram flour can be used to thicken your curry
Instead of using too much of oil or butter to make a curry, just add some milk to it for it taste better
For any food item to ferment in cold weather, place it in oven or microwave, as the inner of it remains warm
I learned some really great hints from your article. Thanks.
#4 by gastor troubled, Oct 14, 2007
Ur tip has helped me get rid of my gastro problems
#5 by middle class monisha, Oct 14, 2007
Glass bottles of pasta sauce or jams can be used for storing food items in them. So the next time you get jam or pasta sauce from a store, do not throw away the bottles.
Thanks!