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Top 10 Uses of Vinegar in Kitchen

Posted by on Aug 5, 2010 in Kitchen Tips, Tips | 7 comments

Image Credit by : uberculture Flickr Clean the Drains: Pour 1/2 cup baking soda in the drain, followed by 1/2 cup vinegar,  foam will starts to come as it cleans and deodorizes. Use every few weeks to keep drains clean. Soften the tender Meat: Vinegar is always use to soften the tender meat. Just mariande the 1lb meat overnight with a tbsp of vinegar. Salty Food: If you added extra salt in your food while cooking, add a bit of vinegar. You won’t taste the vinegar and it cuts the taste of salt. Poaching eggs: When you are poaching eggs, add a tbsp of vinegar to keep the white of the egg from running. Coffee and Tea stain: Coffee and tea stains from cups can be easily  removed by cleaning with a mixture of half vinegar and half salt....

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A few Kitchen tips for you

Posted by on May 4, 2010 in Cooking Tips, Kitchen Tips, Tips | 3 comments

How to Check the freshness of eggs? To check out if your eggs have gone bad or not, there is a simple way. Just drop the eggs in water. If it is good it will sink otherwise it will float. How to avoid bugs in your pantry? Periodic cleaning of your pantry shelves helps to prevent bugs from infesting stored food products. Drop a bay leaf in your flour canisters to get rid off bugs and free from moisture. If you find your food product infested with bugs, keep them under sun for a two to three days and sieve out the bugs. Also, exposure to cold temperatures kills them. Try to keep the food products in an air tight container and clean the containers before refilling. Is your dish too salty? If so, just add a few pieces...

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Best 5 Kitchen Cleaning tips

Posted by on Apr 29, 2010 in Kitchen Tips, Tips | 6 comments

How to Clean Burnt Pot? One of the toughest job is to clean the burnt pot. In fact, I just recently experienced it. I was heating oil to fry some papads and I totally forgot it and started working on the computer. The vessel started burning and then I realized and ran into the kitchen. Finally I cleared all the mess but it was too difficult for me to clean up the pot. Seriously I’ve soaked it in soap water for a week. No luck. One of my friends  shared this tip with me and my pot is clean now. Here is the tip, Boil some water in your burnt  pot with some stalks of rhubarb and after that bring into a complete boil. After 2-3 minutes remove from heat let it cool and Voila the stains will be...

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Spring Clean Your Pantry and Find Kitchen Treasures

Posted by on Apr 3, 2010 in Kitchen Tips, Tips | 2 comments

(Image credit “Pantry Girl“) I always have a hard time cleaning my pantry. I totally get confused what to throw away and what to keep? Whenever I try a new recipe I buy some ingredients which I couldn’t use for other recipes. And it sits in my pantry for a very long time . And when I do my spring cleaning I always have a hard time figuring out  what to do  with those stuff sitting there for a long time. I came across this interesting article which I’ve found very useful and totally agree with it. “Treasure in your pantry : Spring Clean Kitchen and save”. Hope you guys find this article helpful like I...

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How to Make Veggies Last Longer?

Posted by on Nov 9, 2008 in Kitchen Tips, Tips | Comments Off on How to Make Veggies Last Longer?

It’s always a difficult job to keep the vegetables fresh and use it properly. Sometimes we forget about the  vegetables that are sitting in our fridge for a  long time.  To avoid this and make use of the vegetables properly, here are a few tips that I follow : Green chilies : Don’t put the green chilies just like that in the fridge. To keep them fresh for a long time remove the stems and put it in a ziplock bag or in some storage box. Carrots: Cover the carrots with a damp cloth and put it in fridge. It will be fresh for three weeks. Cilantro : Cilantro has to be one of the common one to go bad before you get to use it all. To kep them fresh I store them in a salad container so...

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