Handy household tips
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- Keep the silver vessels or jewellery items in a vessel filled with soured milk or buttermilk for half-n-hour and then wash. They will regain the shine as new.
- After washing the white-coloured washbasins, white-tiled bathrooms or sinks, wash it again with water added with a few drops of ultramarine blue. They will all become pure glistening white.
- When performing Homams in the house, keep a table-fan facing outside near the window � this way, the smoke will not come inside.
- Spraying a small quantity of salt over butter will keep it ok for longer periods.
- Especially during the summer season, swarms of flies (�Ee� in Tamil) can be seen all over. While washing the floors of the house, mix some salt with water used for washing and then clean. Once dry, flies won�t enter.
- If the vegetables or fruits are kept in cold water mixed with a few drops of vinegar, the germs and bacteria will die.
- To remove the bad smell on the knives after cutting onion or garlic, rub a pinch of salt on the surface of the knife and then wash with cold water.
- In order to avoid milk getting stuck in the bottom of the vessel, first (before adding milk) wash that vessel with cold water thoroughly
- Keep a bunch of fenugreek leaves in the container with wheat � insects won�t enter.
- Before going to sleep, spray some bleaching powder in the bathroom and the toilet and leave it. This will remove the cockroach complaint.
- Adding a bit of butter to the cut onion will keep it fresher for a longer time.
- Keeping the broken half of the coconut either under water or rubbing the interior with a pinch of salt will prevent t from rotting.
- Keeping the jewellery pieces covered in cotton will retain their fresh luster.
- Use curtains/screen in dark green or dark blue colour � the intensity of heat won�t enter the interior,
- It is wiser to save more fuel while cooking � keep the cooking vessel covered except while cooking greens.
- Mix some chalk powder and washing soda in warm water and rub this mixture on the mosaic floors before washing again with water �this will keep the mosaic shining and dirt-free.
- In order to clean the sink or the washbasin for cleaning cooking utensils, use old newspaper sheets and rub strongly - it will remove the dirt and then it can be washed with water.
- Heat the knife under direct fire for a small time and then use it for cutting bread � you will find it easy as per your desire and shape.
- In case the foul smell of fish lingers in the vessel, mix the shikakai powder and tamarind and wash the vessel. The foul smell will be gone.
- In case lemon gets dry, keep it in boiling water for 5 minutes and then extract the juice in more quantity.
