1. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato.
The potato will absorb the excess salt.
2. If you arent sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it's past the fresh stage.
3. To banish ants from the kitchen, find out where they are coming in and cover the hole with petroleum jelly. Ants won't trek through the jelly. If they are coming under a door, draw a
line on the floor with chalk. The little bugs also won't cross a line of chalk.
4. If you manage to have some leftover wine at the end of the evening, freeze it in ice cube trays for easy addition to soups and sauces in the future.
5. If your loaf of bread is starting to go stale, just put a piece of fresh celery in the bag and close it back up.
For some reason, this restores a fresh taste and texture to the bread.
6. When making a soup, sauce, or casserole that ends up too fatty or greasy, drop in an ice cube.
The ice will attract the fat, which you can then scoop out.
7. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a ¼ piece of ginger in the oil.
It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.
8. If your milk always goes bad before you can finish it, try adding a pinch of salt to the carton when you first open it.
It will stay fresh days longer.
9. Water that has been boiled and allowed to cool will freeze faster than water from the tap.
This comes in handy when you're having a party and need ice pronto.
10. If two drinking glasses become stuck together after stacking, it's not impossible to unstick them.
Just put ice in the inner glass and dunk the outer glass in warm water. The warm glass will expand and the cold glass will contract, making the glasses separate easily.
(pssst, vinkki 11 -ostakaa pitayaa, se on kaunista ja hyvää piparin ja brien kanssa!)
