Useful tips for housewives. How to wash kitchen towels - TOP tips from experienced housewives

05.08.2021

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І. Apartment renovation

1. The nail is easily driven in if its tip is dipped in vegetable oil.

2. If sugar is added to the cement solution, it will become much stronger.

3. Alabaster diluted with milk hardens longer - it is easier for them to close up cracks with a brush.

4. If the brush for oil works is very hard, it should be immersed in boiling vinegar for 1 minute.

5. The room, which has just been pasted over with wallpaper, must not be ventilated for several days, otherwise the wallpaper will begin to bubble and peel off.

6. Tiles are easier to cut when wet. In this case, it is less likely that it will break.

7. Tiles of imported production are more expensive than domestic ones, but when laying it, you do not have to align the edges of the tiles so that they lay close to one another.

8. The dropped out tiles can be firmly strengthened on zinc white, thickly rubbed with natural drying oil. But it will take a long time to dry.

9. Washable wallpaper should not be pasted over a sunny room - under the influence of sunlight, such wallpaper emit substances harmful to health.

10. Using wallpaper and light-colored paints, you can visually increase the volume of the room. Dark tones visually reduce its volume.

II. Cleaning of the apartment

1. Scratches on polished furniture can be removed with coloring cream for shoes of the corresponding color.

2. You can wipe the mirrors with cotton wool dipped in cologne or alcohol (vodka). Can be used cold water with an admixture of linen blue - this will give the mirror a pleasant shine. A diluted tea infusion is suitable for the same purpose.

3. It is recommended to clean the yellowed enamel bath with salt and vinegar.

4. It is recommended to wipe the tiles in the bathroom with vinegar and water (1: 5). You can use a soapy solution with the addition of ammonia.

5. What is painted with light oil or enamel paint is recommended to be washed with water without soap and soda (they make the paint dull). You can add ammonia to the water (a teaspoon per liter) - it removes dirt and adds shine. After washing, you need to wipe it with a dry cloth so that yellow spots and streaks do not appear.

7. A new broom, mop, broom will last longer if soaked in hot soapy water before use.

8. The white mark on the polished surface, which appears from a hot object, can be removed by wiping it with alcohol with vegetable oil.

9. Rub it with a woolen cloth in a circular motion.

10. Do not wash windows with soap, as it forms a film on the glass that is difficult to clean.

11. Strong vinegar solution removes stains from glass and mirrors (1 tablespoon per glass of water).

12. A brush soaked in salt water will help restore the golden color of straw products.

13. The color of the carpet will become brighter if you sprinkle it with fine white salt in the evening and remove the salt with a soft clean damp cloth the next day.

14. Linoleum floors should not be washed with hot water or water containing baking soda or ammonia- linoleum fades and deteriorates.

15. Can be washed with warm water with the addition of laundry soap, then rinse and wipe dry.

16. Approximately once every 3 months, you need to wipe the linoleum with natural linseed oil, and then carefully wipe it off with a soft cloth. You can rub linoleum with a mixture of wax, paraffin and turpentine (1: 1: 5), which must be mixed while heated.

17. Wipe parquet floors well with a damp cloth soaked in cold water with the addition of glycerin (a tablespoon in a glass of water). It is not recommended to wash the parquet with hot water.

18. It is enough to wipe chrome-plated surfaces with a cloth soaked in soapy water.

19. Nickel-plated surfaces are cleaned with pastes and liquid cleaning compounds. For example: gruel from ammonia and tooth powder. When such a mixture dries, the product must be wiped with a dry cloth and polished with a cloth.

20. For the serving knives to shine, they must be peeled with raw potatoes. A few drops of lemon juice will also work.

21. Porcelain dishes should be washed with water and ammonia.

22. Crystal glassware cannot be washed with hot water - this makes it cloudy and becomes covered with a network of small cracks. If, after washing, wipe it with a woolen cloth with blue-stained blue starch, the dishes will shine more.

23. It is easy to remove dark plaque from silver and silver-plated items as follows: rinse the item in warm soapy water, then clean it with a soft cloth dipped in a mixture of ammonia and chalk or tooth powder. Then rinse with warm water and wipe thoroughly.

24. Silver, silver-plated and cupronickel products can be refreshed by washing them in warm water with baking soda (50 g per 1 liter of water) or in warm soapy water with ammonia (1 tablespoon per 1 liter). After this, the product must be rinsed with clean water and wiped dry with a soft cloth.

ІІІ. Useful kitchen tips

1. Peeling potatoes darkens the skin on the hands. To avoid this, it is necessary to moisten your hands with vinegar before work and let them dry, and after work, immediately wash with soap and grease with cream.

2. All glassware - glasses, vases - can be washed without special means. To do this, add a little vinegar or coarse salt to warm water. The dishes will become cleaner and more transparent.

3. Aluminum pots will shine again when boiled with potato peels, apple peel, rhubarb peel, or vinegar solution.

4. Darkened enamel pots should be boiled with any dishwashing detergent and then rinsed with hot water. But if you boil them with a vinegar solution twice a month, they will not darken.

5. If something is burnt in the pan, you can pour cold water on the bottom and add salt. After a few hours, food debris can be easily removed. For enameled pots, the following method is suitable: pour the pan with hot water with the addition of a spoonful of soda, leave to stand, and then boil - the food debris will go away perfectly.

6. Frying pans can be cleaned easily as follows: slightly warm them up and wipe them with salt, and then with parchment (in extreme cases, with plain paper).

If the escaped milk spills onto a hot stove, you need to fill the filled area with salt and cover it with wet paper - then the smell will not spread throughout the room.

7. To prevent bugs from starting in the flour, you need to put a few cloves of garlic in the bag where it is stored, without peeling the upper skin.

8. Flour should be sifted periodically and put into a clean bag.

9. To make knives, scissors, etc. easier to sharpen, you can place them in a weak saline solution for half an hour and sharpen without wiping.

10. It is much easier to wash the meat grinder if you skip raw potatoes at the end.

11. Do not dry the meat grinder near a heat source - this makes the knives dull.

12. New glasses will not break if you put them in a container of cold water, slowly heat it to a boil and leave them to cool in the same water.

13. Metal foil for baking will last much longer in the refrigerator - it does not stick together.

IV. Eliminate odors

1. Unpleasant odors on your hands (from fish, garlic, etc.) can be removed by rubbing your hands with salt and then washing them with soap.

2. The smell of garlic from the mouth can be removed by chewing parsley.

3. The smell of fish from pans and pots will disappear if you rub them with heated salt and then rinse.

4. The smell of onions can be removed by rubbing kitchen boards and cutlery with dry salt.

5. You can get rid of the unpleasant odor in the kitchen if you boil water with vinegar in an open container and ventilate the room after a few minutes. For the same purpose, you can put an orange or lemon peel on a heated burner, or sprinkle some salt on a hot stove.

6. The smell of escaped milk spilled on a hot stove can be localized by pouring salt into the area and covering it with wet paper - then the smell will not spread throughout the room.

7. To remove the smell of paint from the room, you need to rub the head of garlic and leave it in the room for a while.

8. The smell of oil paint in the apartment will disappear faster if you put plates of salt in several places.

9. The smell of tobacco from the room is badly expelled even by a draft. But this can be done like this: open the windows and put 2-3 wet towels in different places of the room. They absorb tobacco odor well. For the same purpose, several candles can be lit in the room where they smoked.

V. Jewelry

1. After wearing jewelry, wipe it dry with a cloth to avoid sweat stains.

2. Store jewelry in a dry place.

3. Amethysts, topazes, pearls, turquoise lose their color intensity under the influence of ultraviolet rays - they should be stored in the dark.

4. Gilded items can be cleaned by wiping their surface with a cotton swab dipped in cologne, turpentine or egg white.

5. A gold piece will shine more if it is kept in sweetened water for a while.

6. You can restore shine to jewelry made of gold and silver by washing them with the following composition: ½ cup of soap solution and 1 teaspoon of ammonia. You can use a soft toothbrush for this. After processing, rinse the product with water and wipe dry.

7. To clean silver items, you need to immerse them in a solution of hot water and ammonia (1: 1). When the solution has cooled, remove the products from the water and wipe gently.

Vi. Shoe care

1. Unpleasant odor from shoes can be eliminated with hydrogen peroxide by wiping the inside of the shoes with a cotton swab moistened with it. For the same purpose, a solution of potassium permanganate is used.

2. For the disinfection of shoes, formalin is used: the shoes are wiped inside with a cloth soaked in formalin, and placed in plastic bag, tie it up and leave it for a day. Then the shoes are taken out and ventilated.

3. Suede shoes are well cleaned if they are held over steam and then brushed with a special brush. If suede shoes are heavily soiled, then they are cleaned with soapy water with the addition of ammonia. After cleaning, it is advisable to treat the suede with a water-repellent preparation.

4. If your shoes are tight, you need to pour a little cologne, alcohol or table vinegar into them. After that, the shoes will take the shape of the feet, and the skin will become softer.

5. So that the shoes do not creak, you need to soak the sole with hot natural linseed oil or grease with linseed or castor oil.

6. If in hot weather new shoes "burn" your feet, you can wipe the inside with 3% vinegar.
To prevent the shoes from getting wet, you can treat them with the following solution: dissolve 40 g of fish oil, 10 parts of wax, 3 parts of turpentine in a water bath. Apply the cream in liquid form.

7. Dried athletic shoes can be soaked in warm water until the skin is soft. Then you need to wipe it inside and out, dry it, grease it with glycerin and stuff it tightly with newsprint.

8. In warm weather for shoe care it is better to use emulsion creams that dissolve well and let the air pass through, and in winter - creams based on organic solvents (they give an air and waterproof film).

9. Dried shoe polish can be restored by adding a few drops of turpentine and heating gently.

10. It is useful to rinse shoe brushes with water with the addition of ammonia.

11. To soften the leather of shoes that have not been worn for a long time, you need to rub it abundantly with castor oil and allow it to be absorbed.

Vii. Fur and leather

1. Leather goods can be refreshed by wiping them with a whipped egg white... Contaminated skin can be washed with warm, unboiled milk.
The skin color will be restored if it is lubricated with glycerin.

2. Coffee grounds will give shine to leather goods. The thick should be wrapped in a woolen or flannel cloth and rubbed the skin with vigorous movements.

3. Leather products can be cleaned with soap and water and ammonia, and then wiped with a cloth moistened with castor oil (or petroleum jelly or glycerin).

4. Shabby areas of leather goods should be wiped from time to time with a cloth moistened with glycerin or with a fresh orange peel.

5. This will help bring them back to their previous appearance.

6. A dirty leather bag can be cleaned by rubbing the leather with a cut onion. As the onion becomes dirty, you need to make a new cut.

7. After completing the procedure, wipe the bag to a shine with a clean soft cloth.

8. A purse made of dark leather will acquire a shine if wiped with a cotton swab dipped in lemon juice.

9. You can also update your leather bag like this: wash it carefully in warm soapy water, to which a little ammonia is added. Then dry and wipe with a cloth soaked in castor oil.

10. For cleaning sheepskin coats, a soap solution with the addition of ammonia is used. After that, the product should be treated with another solution: 20 g of glycerin, 20 g of ammonia, 5 borax per 0.5 L of water. Then the sheepskin coat must be dried and washed with your hands.

11. Suede jackets and coats should be cleaned with the following solution: 1 tablespoon of ammonia for 5 tablespoons of water. Then things must be gently wiped with a cloth moistened with a composition of 1 teaspoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water.

12. If the new leather gloves are too tight, wrap them in a wet towel, and after 2-3 hours put them on and dry them on your hands.

13. To restore the shine of tarnished fur, you need to grind the kernel of walnuts into a powder, tie the resulting powder in three-fold gauze and rub the fur over the hair with this swab after the nut oil is absorbed, the fur will acquire a beautiful persistent shine.

VIII. Removing stains

1. A greasy spot on the wallpaper can be removed by attaching a piece of soft thick cloth to it for 2-3 minutes, moistened with pure gasoline and slightly wrung out. The grease dissolved in gasoline will be absorbed into the fabric. For the same purpose, tooth powder soaked in gasoline is used. When the powder is dry, brush it off the wall with a brush. An old stain will have to be treated twice.

2. A dark trace of hot on furniture can be removed as follows: rub with half a lemon until the stain turns pale. This operation must be repeated until the spot disappears completely.

3. Stains from light liquids on furniture can be removed by soaking a sponge in vegetable oil and gently running it along the grain of the tree. You can also use a paste made from mayonnaise or vegetable oil mixed with salt (apply, leave for two hours, then rinse). A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine (1: 1) is also suitable (similar).

4. Grease stains from a fur coat can be removed in two ways: 1) wipe the fur in one direction with a cloth moistened with refined gasoline or a special stain remover; 2) wash the stains with a solution of washing powder or foam from soap shavings. In this case, rub the solution or foam into the fur so as not to moisten the leather base. After such treatment, wash the place where the stain was with water, dry the fur (just not in the sun!), And then knock out the fur coat with a beater.

5. Fat from canned food is removed with chalk or tooth powder, left in the contaminated place overnight.

6. If you urgently need to get rid of a greasy stain, you can sprinkle it with tooth powder and iron it through the paper.

7. Tea stains on the oilcloth can be easily removed with lemon juice. published by

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Good afternoon, dear readers and friends!

Back in the old Soviet times, reading various magazines, I was very fond of headings such as "Advice to the hostess for a note." She subscribed to some, and in most cases collected the torn out pages with useful advice to the hostesses in a special daddy.

This will be a collection of tips for the hostess in the kitchen.

I'll start my advice for housewives with my favorite activity - washing dishes .

Clean Feng Shui dishes are a guarantee of a happy family and prosperity. In no case should you leave unwashed dishes overnight if you do not want happiness and wealth to slip out of your house through your fingers.
As with the cooking process, it is better to wash the plates straight away, rather than pile up them in a pile.
By the way, do you know how to wash a cup of stuck dough? First you need to soak it with water, let it soak, and after a while already wash it, the dough will easily move away from the walls.
I clean burnt pots as follows: pour water, add more table salt and put on the fire to boil for 15-20 minutes. Then the burnt bottom of the pan can be easily cleaned out with an iron brush or just a sponge.
Before grating cheese, I advise you to grease it with vegetable oil. And the cheese will not stick, and it is easier to wash the grater.
And it is more convenient to rub the garlic by placing cellophane on the grater. The garlic remains on it, the grater will be practically clean, and the hands are safe and not scratched.

About knives

Here is another Feng Shui rule concerning knives and all sharp objects: they should not be left in plain sight, on the table, knives and scissors must be put in a storage cabinet.

You know how to sharpen knives quickly and without male help?

This is an ancient way that I thought everyone knew about. But it is strange that I did not find any information about him on the Internet. Well, maybe I was looking badly.

And the essence of the method is as follows: we do not need any special devices. We take two knives in hand at once, one to the left, the other to the right. The blades should be turned inward towards each other.

We draw one knife along the blade of the other and then vice versa. So in alternating movements we sharpen two knives at once against each other, holding them at a slight slope.

Super method! The blades are like razors! I always sharpen my knives like that before I cook. I made a few movements and you can cut anything you want. And you don't need to ask anyone to help.

And if the knives at the meat grinder are dull, roll the dried bread through it. Kill two birds with one stone: sharpen your knives and make bread crumbs.

Breading products

Most often we like to bread cutlets and other food before frying in flour or bread crumbs... But you can still use semolina what I really like to do is starch (I usually use it for breading), and even ground walnuts.

Instead of mayonnaise

For some time now I have not used harmful mayonnaise, but I'm also lazy to make my own, and it's not very useful either. But there is a great way to replace mayonnaise in salads: add the yolk of a boiled egg, which you have ground beforehand, and a teaspoon of mustard to the sour cream.

Garlic flavor

An amazing way that I have known for a long time. Since I love the garlic aroma, but I can’t eat dishes with garlic, as the body reacts badly to them, sometimes I do the following: before putting a salad or side dish on a plate, I rub it with garlic. Then the whole dish takes on a spicy aroma.

Tips for storing an unused onion

Sometimes this happens to me if the onion is very large, but you need a little of it in the salad. I grease the place of the cut with oil and put it in a plate in the refrigerator. The cut will not dry out, and the onion will retain all its properties.

How to store tomato paste

If an open jar with tomato paste if stored for a long time, mold may form on its surface. To avoid this, try adding some fine salt and vegetable oil.

How to store cereals

Cereals cannot be stored in plastic bags. In them, they quickly deteriorate and bugs can start. Store cereals in cotton or linen bags, or glass jars in a dry place. I made burlap lids for the jars and tied them with multi-colored braid so that it would not be boring.

And I store semolina in the refrigerator for reliability.

Tips for baking pies

When kneading, the dough should always be mixed in one direction only (for example, clockwise).
If the tops of the pies tend to burn in your oven, cover it with a piece of paper dipped in water.
The standard temperature for baking pies, cookies and other goodies, which is most often set in the oven, is 200 degrees. But you need to cook meat at a slightly lower temperature - 180 degrees.

Here's another useful tips housewives for cooking.

Defrosting food

Freezing and thawing food is known to be harmful twice. At the same time, their quality is significantly lost.

Therefore, before putting meat, fish, minced meat in the freezer, divide them into portions that you will use in cooking, and put them in plastic bags.

Defrosting meat quickly is not recommended. How to do it right? Remove a piece of meat from the freezer a day before using it and place it in the package on the upper shelf of the refrigerator (or the lower one, depending on the model, i.e. away from the freezer). A day later, when you came home from work, drain the resulting liquid, remove the packaging and put the meat in a cup of cold water for an hour.

How to salt correctly

The meat is usually salted half an hour before it is cooked, then it will be soft.
The liver must be salted at the very end of the frying, which, by the way, takes no more than 7 minutes of time, otherwise the liver will turn out tough. Add more onions to it, you can stew it in sour cream. Mmm, delicious, it melts in your mouth!
The fish should be salted 15 minutes before putting it in the pan. Let the whole thing soak in salt, not just her skin.
Mashed potatoes are salted at the end of cooking, and in order for it to remain intact and not boiled, on the contrary, at the beginning.

How to properly cut potatoes for soup

The size and shape of the soup potato slices depends on the main ingredient in the soup. If it is cabbage soup or borscht and the main cabbage in them, cut into strips, then the potatoes should be cut into strips or cubes.

If the soup is pea, then we approach the shape of a pea, that is, we cut the potatoes into cubes, but not very finely, of course.

How to make delicious mashed potatoes

Someone pours milk into potatoes, someone adds eggs to get fluffy mashed potatoes, but even with such additives, it often comes with lumps.

I learned to cook simply and very, well, very tasty! I share.

Proven tips from experienced housewives - how to make lush and delicious mashed potatoes

First of all, the potatoes need to be boiled longer so that they become very soft. For this purpose, only varieties of boiled potatoes are suitable.

Then we drain the entire broth into a separate bowl. I repeat, ALL the broth! It is important. If there is even a little water left, the oil dissolved in it will not crush the potatoes well and the mashed potatoes will be lumpy.

We drained the water, put butter in the potatoes. We do not regret oil! And immediately knead hot potatoes with butter with a potato grinder (crush). We knead well so that there is not a piece of butter or lumps of potatoes left.

Now gradually pour the drained potato broth into the puree, stirring, until the desired consistency is obtained.

So that the stuffed cabbage does not burn

At the bottom of a large saucepan, place the lid from the smaller saucepan with the handle up. We spread a row of cabbage leaves on it, and then stuffed cabbage.

I like to stew cabbage rolls in large quantities tomato and sour cream sauce, then they too will never burn and will be very tasty.

And also often I do lazy cabbage rolls... Try the recipe.

How to make mustard quickly

In general, I am not a fan of spicy foods and mustard, so I don’t know how to cook it. But I do this for the family: pour dry mustard into a jar, pour in the pickle from under the cucumbers, stir and you're done! Fast and tasty. The brine already contains salt, vinegar, and spices in the right amount.

The secret of a delicious vinaigrette

This advice is just one of those very useful tips for the hostess on a note from old magazines. True, a very delicate taste is obtained from the vinaigrette if you add a tablespoon of milk and a little, literally a teaspoon of sugar, to it.

And instead of green peas, I like to put boiled beans.

We have and other tips for housewives which I have previously published.

Even if we know everything about farming and cooking, we never miss an opportunity to learn something else. these tips are for the housewife who wants and can become perfect!

1. If you did not remove the foam from the broth in time and it sank to the bottom, pour a glass of water into the pan. The foam will rise and can be removed.
2. Do not put any seasonings in chicken broth, only onions and carrots. Otherwise, it will lose its taste.
3. Never leave bay leaves in the soup. It is good when boiled, and then only spoils the taste.
4. Chops will be softer if you grease them with a mixture of vinegar and vegetable oil 1 - 2 hours before frying. Do the same for the grilled meats.
5. To cook delicious juicy cutlets, add equally finely chopped raw and lightly fried onions to the minced meat and a little raw potatoes.
6. The first minute of frying the cutlets, the fire should be strong so that the crust seizes and does not allow the juice to flow out. But then you need to bring the heat to medium and, turning the cutlets, increase it again for half a minute.
7. The fish will not fall into pieces and will acquire a golden crust if wiped with a towel 10-15 minutes before frying and salted immediately.
8. A few fresh chanterelles added to any soup will make it taste better. Mushrooms in dishes are tastier the finer they are cut.
9. Stir the grated raw potatoes immediately with a little milk, otherwise they will turn blue.
10. Old potatoes will become tastier if you add a spoonful of vinegar, 2-3 cloves of garlic and bay leaves during cooking, or boil them in broth. The older the potatoes, the more water is required.
11. Mashed potatoes it is better to beat by hand. Whipped in a mixer becomes fluffy, but quickly loses its flavor.
12. Yeast dough will be soft and airy if you add cooled boiled potatoes, grated on a fine grater, to it.
13. Butter does not darken during frying, if the hot frying pan is pre-greased with vegetable oil.
14. The dough will come up faster if you stick a few sticks of tubular pasta into it. 15. To get a light and fluffy cream, when whipping with a whisk, you need to describe the eights and from time to time circles along the walls of the dish.
16. Products made from unleavened dough will be crumbly, airy, if you add a spoonful of cognac to the dough.
17. If you want the beans not to darken during cooking, cook them in an open saucepan.
18. To avoid splashing oil, lightly sprinkle the bottom of the pan with salt before frying.
19. Into the salad sauerkraut instead of apples, you can put slices of oranges or tangerines.
20. Vegetable oil should be added to the salad only after the salad has been salted, vinegar and pepper have been added (salt does not dissolve in oil).
21. Salad with mayonnaise and vinaigrette will be especially pleasant taste, if you put a lemon peel in them for a short time before serving.
22. If you want the vinaigrette to acquire a delicate and pleasant taste, pour a tablespoon of milk into it and add a teaspoon of granulated sugar.
23. To obtain transparent meat broth during cooking, you need to put washed eggshells in it. Ready broth should be drained.
24. Broth onion peel broths can be tinted. This increases their nutritional value, enriches them with vitamins and improves their appearance.
25. Old chicken will cook faster if, after it has been cooked for 20-30 minutes, immerse it in cold water for 5-6 minutes.
26. To prevent the meat from burning and becoming dry, a vessel with water is placed in the oven.
27. To eliminate the strong smell of fish frying, put 1 raw potato, peeled and cut into slices, in vegetable oil.
28. To quickly cool a hot compote, you need to put a saucepan with it in another, large dish, fill it with cold water and add a little coarse salt to the water.
29. When preparing jelly, diluted starch should be poured not into the middle of the pan, but closer to its walls.

Each housewife will find these helpful tips useful when preparing various dishes.

If the soup is salty, a lump of sugar is dipped into it on a spoon. As soon as the sugar begins to dissolve, take out the spoon - the sugar absorbs the excess salt. You can also wrap some flour or rice in a rag and simmer in the soup. Flour and rice also absorb salt. You can put a whole potato in the soup and raw, and take it out after a few minutes.

To prevent the cookies from burning, pour some salt under the cookie cutters.

To prevent lumps from forming, dilute the flour for pancakes and sauces in salted water.

To prevent the cheese from drying out, wrap it in a clean cloth dipped in salt water.

Steaming food will cook faster if you add salt to the water in the pot.

When cleaning slippery fish, dip your fingers in salt to make your work easier.

To keep the salt dry, put some rice grains in it.

Started bottle with mineral water best stored upside down, well sealed. The water will keep gas and freshness longer.

To prevent cabbage rolls from burning in the pan during stewing, put a lid of a smaller diameter than that of the pan on the bottom of the pan, with the handle up. Lay on the lid cabbage leaves, and on them - stuffed cabbage.

Grease the grater on which you are going to grate the cheese with vegetable oil. This will prevent the cheese from sticking, and the grater is easier to wash.

Poultry is plucked from top to bottom, and forest birds - from bottom to top.

To remove fish scales, not only a knife, but also a grater is suitable.

It is much more convenient to remove scales if you lower the fish under water. Then the scales do not fly apart and do not stain anything around.

If you add a little cold water several times during cooking, the fish will taste better.

Soaking in vinegar, kvass, sour milk, cucumber, cabbage, or beetroot brine is a reliable way to soften tough meat.

To get a nice toasted crust, you need the entire surface raw meat grease with vegetable oil.

Rolling flat cuts of meat into a tube will help them cook more evenly.

If the yolks whipped to make the dough are salted, then the finished products will acquire a pleasant yellow color.

Semolina porridge will be tender and without lumps if you rinse the cereal in several waters. Milk will not "run away" if the edges of the pan are greased.

And to make the milk boil faster, you can put a little sugar in it.

Do you want to make raisin dough? Rinse the raisins in hot water and then sprinkle with flour. Then the raisins are evenly distributed in the dough.

If yeast dough came up, but you do not have time to immediately cut it and put it to bake, so that it no longer fits, cover it with well-moistened paper, just shake it off of water first.

If you add a little milk to the sour cream, it will not curl in the gravy.

The whites whisk better if they are pre-cooled, and the yolks grind faster if they are heated. Rice will be white and crumbly if citric acid crystals are added to the water.

The broth will be tastier if the meat is kept in a hot oven before cooking.

To get a transparent broth with dumplings, they need to be dipped in hot water for a few seconds to wash off the flour, and then put into boiling broth.

Milk will not turn sour if you put a horseradish leaf in it.

To prevent the peeled apples from darkening, you must immerse them in slightly salted cold water.

To whip up foam or cream quickly, add a pinch of salt to the egg white or cream.

The larger the vegetables are cut, the less nutrients they lose during cooking.

The beans will become tastier and more nutritious if the water is drained immediately after boiling, then pour cold and add 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil to it.

Beets are cooked for a very long time - 3-3.5 hours. And you can cook it for only an hour, then remove it from the heat and put it under running cold water for 10 minutes. The beets are ready.

So that the pieces of fish do not fall apart during frying, you need to salt them, roll them in flour and let them lie for 10-15 minutes, then put them in a frying pan in hot oil.

Put the frozen fish in a plastic bag, tie it up and put it in warm water. The fish will thaw faster than just at room temperature.

Boiled potatoes will turn out snow-white if you add a little lemon juice to the water.

The onions will turn out golden and tastier if you sprinkle them with powdered sugar during frying.

A piece of bread placed in a saucepan in which the cabbage is boiled will absorb the unpleasant smell.

If the mayonnaise starts to turn sour, add a spoonful of cold water to it.

If potatoes are cooked in "uniform", pierce the skin in several places - it will not crumble.

Fried potatoes will gain spicy taste, if during cooking add 1 teaspoon of mustard to it.

Sprinkle salt water on the chicken, duck or turkey 10 minutes before the end of the frying for a crispy fried poultry.

For grinding boiled potatoes it is better to use not a meat grinder, but a hair sieve.

Unpleasant sensations are caused by the onion smell in the mouth. Drink some milk and it will disappear.

So that the soup with homemade noodles does not turn out cloudy, dip the noodles in hot water for a minute and put them on a sieve, and then put them in the broth and cook until tender. The same advice can be given for rice soup: put the washed rice in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, put it on a sieve, and then pour it into the broth.

If you boil eggs over high heat, the white becomes hard and the yolk softer. And if you cook over low heat, the yolk will acquire hardness, and the protein will remain friable. Therefore, it is best to boil the eggs over moderate heat.

To prevent the eggs from cracking during cooking, pour a little salt into the water or put them in a saucepan of cold water and cook over moderate heat.

If you only need white, and the yolk needs to be stored for several days, you should pierce the egg with a needle on both sides - the white will flow out, and the yolk will remain in the shell.

The acid dries out the layers of the dough when baking, and the sour cream gives the products a delicate taste and makes the biscuits crisp.

If the pie is difficult to separate from the baking sheet, you need to hold the baking sheet over the steam or put it in cold water in a shallow dish for a few seconds.

If you can't open glass jar with canned food, it is dipped in hot water with the lid down for a few minutes, after which the jar can be easily opened.

If you are tortured with barley, take a spoon with a metal handle - and as soon as the eye begins to itch, slide around the edge of the eyelid 3 times back and forth.

If you cut your finger and do not have hydrogen peroxide or other necessary means on hand to stop the bleeding, sprinkle sugar on the wound, the blood will stop immediately.

Children often bump and fall. To relieve pain and bruising from a bruise, immediately apply a wet piece of newspaper to the bruise, crumpled in your fist.

You can make an ointment for burns. Take a tin can and melt a regular wax candle in there, and add 2 tbsp. spoons sunflower oil... Cool and lubricate the burn.

To prevent the refrigerator door seal from wearing out and allowing heat to pass through, you need to handle it with care. Wipe down the rubber from time to time with warm water and soap. Then wipe dry and sprinkle with talcum powder or starch.

In order not to take soap with you on the road, you can prepare sheets of soap paper for one-time use in advance: soak porous wrapping paper with shampoo or liquid soap, dry it, cut into small napkins.

Unpleasant odors in the kitchen sink drain are easy to remove. Flush the pipe at least once a week with a boiling solution of 2 tbsp. tablespoons of soda ash per 1 liter of water.

The smell of mildew wooden utensils can be removed by washing with water and vinegar and then with soap and water.

Do not pour out the water in which the "jacket" potatoes have been cooked. It will wash glass, earthenware and earthenware well.

Don't throw away raw potato peels. Chop them into smaller pieces, mix with hot water, vinegar and salt. Get an excellent detergent for washing bottles, decanters.

A strong solution of salt will help clean the frozen window panes.

A dull knife is easier to sharpen if you hold the blade in a weak saline solution for half an hour.

The smell of oil paint that lingers in the apartment after renovation will quickly disappear if you put plates of salt in several places.

Car windows will not fog up if you wipe them with wet salt wrapped in gauze.

Do not empty the water in which the vegetables were cooked. Cool and pour over indoor flowers with this broth.

So that the edges of the carpet lying on the floor do not bend or fray, take BF-6 glue and glue a 20 mm wide braid on the back of the carpet along the entire perimeter. This simple operation will greatly extend the life of your carpet.

An old stocking can be used to reinforce a loose screw. Tightly stuff finely chopped pieces of nylon stocking into the hole from the dropped screw. Heat a nail of a suitable diameter over a fire and stick it deeply into the nylon. You will get a hole with solid melted walls. Screw in the screw immediately. Such "stocking" corks will never dry out and will not fall out.

For drying clothes in the bathroom, it is convenient to use plastic cords from unnecessary children's jump ropes. After a little slack, the cord easily returns to its original position.

To remove chewing gum from upholstered furniture and carpets, place ice on this spot. The gum will freeze and crumble.

Rust from the stove will disappear if you wipe its surface with hot vegetable oil

Rub the new oilcloth with a mixture of vinegar and milk (in half) to keep it from cracking.

Before washing the knife after herring, onion or garlic, hold it over a hot burner and then wash it with cold water and soap.

The grater will become sharp again if you rub it with sandpaper.

The head of garlic adheres well to glass and plastic, you just need to anoint the parts with a crushed clove. The gluing area will remain transparent.

Unpleasant smell in the kitchen will disappear if you burn dry orange or lemon peel

With a cloth dipped in milk, you can remove fresh ink stains, clean the mirror, musical instrument keys, picture frames.

Rust stains from bathtubs and sinks can be removed with a 5% solution oxalic acid, hydrogen peroxide with the addition of ammonia or hot vinegar in which a little table salt is dissolved. Work with gloves!

If you want the ironed laundry not to shine, add a little milk to the starch.

Wash off dirt on jewelry with pearls, turquoise, malachite and amber ethyl alcohol with soapy water (1: 1). After that, wipe the amber dry with flannel, and dry the rest of the stones with a soft cloth moistened with ethyl alcohol.

The gold ring can be restored to shine by holding it in sweet water and then brushing it with lipstick.

Metal brooches and pendants often leave dark spots on clothes. To prevent this from happening, cover the back of them with colorless nail polish.

You can restore the previous shine to silver objects by immersing them in water for 2-3 hours, in which the sliced potatoes are placed. Then rinse them with clean water.

You can remove plaque from silver items by washing in warm soapy water and cleaning with a soft cloth dipped in a mixture of ammonia and tooth powder or chalk.

A pleat on the trousers lasts longer if wiped from the inside with dry soap and then ironed.

To pick up debris from the floor without a scoop, wet the edge of the newspaper and stick it to the floor. After that, you can sweep all the garbage onto it with a broom.

If the ashtray is difficult to clean, rub it with salt and rinse with water.

To sew a button correctly, you need to insert a match between the button and the material, and after finishing work, get it out.

When ironing a tie, insert a piece of cardboard between its top and bottom layers, then the seams will not be printed.

If your shoes get wet in the rain, stuff your shoes with newsprint and let them dry away from a heat source.
The scissors are dull - just cut the sandpaper with them.

Of course, obsessive hoarding is bad, but some things can be given a chance for a second life, and they, in turn, will make yours easier for you!

Rubber bands - for door locks

Do you need to go out or go in the door, and your hands are busy? Pull the rubber over the door handles.
ring, and the locking mechanism will be neutralized for the right time.

Single socks - instead of bubble wrap

Socks, like people, sometimes lose their pair, but do not rush to get rid of them: they will successfully and without impact on the environment replace the bubble wrap when packing crystal glasses and small vases.

Straw - for volatile colors

Delicate stems of tulips and other flowers do not want to stand upright and ruin your ingenious floral arrangement? Ordinary drinking straws will help the bouquet to stay in shape.

Rubber gloves - for opening cans

With a rubber glove, even the smallest woman can open a stubborn jar of jam.

Extra buttons - for stud earrings

So that you no longer have to play detective, trying to find a pair of stud earrings lost in a jewelry box, fasten them together on a button, and henceforth they will be inseparable.

Unscrew the broken light bulb from the socket using a potato
Cut the potato into two halves, take one half, carefully pin on the broken light bulb and unscrew.

If you need to open the bottle, and there is no corkscrew at hand, use a self-tapping screw and pliers.

Screw the self-tapping screw into the cork and use pliers to pull out the screw together with the cork.

2. Wrap your shoes in a plastic bag and put them in the freezer overnight to get rid of the unpleasant smell coming from the shoes.

3. Place the toaster on its side with a plate next to it. Place a slice of whole grain bread with cheese and tomato in the toaster for a hot sandwich in a few minutes.

How to properly cut cherry tomatoes.

1. Place the tomatoes in one layer on a cutting board or flat plate.
2. Cover the tomatoes with another flat plate.
3. Carefully slide the knife between the two plates, holding the top one.

Glue the magnet to the inside of the cabinet - and use it to store small metal objects, such as hairpins, tweezers, hairpins, nail files.

3. Install the rod (metal rod) in the cabinet under the sink - and hang the household chemicals on it.

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How to hang a painting?

You probably know how difficult it is to find a place for a nail when you hang a picture. Simplify the work if you apply toothpaste directly to the hook. Then press the picture against the wall and the paste will leave a mark where you need to drive a carnation.

Removing the smell.

You probably know what smell remains after burnt rice. I know If this smell has not been able to ventilate, orange peel and cloves will help. Place them in a saucepan of water and boil. In a few minutes, the whole house will be filled with a pleasant aroma. It is certainly much better than chemical air fresheners.

How to wash a shower horn

Use vinegar - Pour vinegar on a shower horn and rinse with water after 15 minutes.