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Handy household tips
Posted on: 12/Jul/2018 9:48:23 AM
- Lentils (Bengal gram, green gram, etc) can be boiled quicker when they cooked in rainwater. It will also be tastier.
- Keep lemons in water for an hour each day. They will not wither and will remain ok for a longer while.
- Always use wooden ladles to mix the pickles.
- After washing the vessels used for storing curd/buttermilk, keep them in sunlight for some time. The unpleasant smell will go away.
- To remove the bad smell from the flasks, wash them with water after adding a small quantity of vinegar.
- To prevent the curry leaves from going dry, keep them covered under an Aluminium lid or vessel.
- Drying the small onions in the sun for some time will keep it in condition for a month also, it will prevent sprouting.
- Keep ginger in damp sand.
- Keeping raw bananas in water will keep them fresh for more than a week.
- Cutting off the head and tail part of okra (lady’s finger or vendaikkai) will keep it in good condition for a day more.
- To keep groundnut oil from rotting/souring, keep a small quantity of tamarind in the oil container.
- Spray a few droplets of perfume on the lit bulbs/ tube light/LED lamps. The place will be filled with pleasant smell.
- While stitching nylon clothes, it would be rather difficult to stitch using the needle – for this. dip the needle in a soap bar and then use – the problem will be solved.
- In order to take out the maximum paste from the toothpaste, keep it under hot water for some time and then squeeze.
- Keep the blood-stained clothes for some time in cold water after dissolving some salt in it. Wash after some time. The blood stain would be gone.
- Add a few drops of castor oil in jar where ‘maavadu’ pickle is kept. Insects won’t enter and the pickle will last longer.
- In order to wash white clothes for a sparkling white, add a few pinches of table salt in the water before and then soak and wash. The clothes will be ultra-white after wash.
- Rubbing the mirror with some tea leaves/powder will remove all the dirt and it will glitter.
- Do not fry/cook raw coriander/curry leaves – they will retain all the nutrients only when used raw.
- Do not use excess oil while making curries of roots like potato, yam, etc. Excess oil will make them difficult to digest.
