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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Household Tips:

http://www.e-cookbooks.net/tips.htm#household

  Stubborn stains can be removed from non-stick
 cookware by boiling, 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 1/2 cup vinegar,
 and 1 cup of water for ten minutes. Before using the pan again,
 season it with salad oil.
  Burnt food can be removed from a glass baking
 dish by spraying it with oven cleaner and letting it soak for
 30 minutes. The burnt-on residue will be easier to wipe off.
  Whenever you empty a jar of dill pickles,
 use the left-over juice to clean the copper bottoms of your pans.
 Just pour the juice in a large bowl, set the pan in the juice
 for about 15 minutes. Comes out looking like new.
  To restore color and shine to an aluminum pan, boil some apple peels
 in it for a few minutes, then rinse and dry.
  Instead of using expensive silver cleaners, put a dab of toothpaste
 on a clean rag and rub it on your precious possession. After you've
 rubbed it in, just clean it with another clean rag.
 Your silver will look like new.
  To clean copper bottoms on pots and pans, simply open a can of tomato
 soup paste, rub it on and scrub then rinse. If you do this weekly,
 your pots and pans stay shiny clean. This is a very inexpensive
 way to clean copper and brass items!
  Stains and sediment in cut glass or hobnob bowls or vases respond
 to olive oil. Pour some in and let stand until the stains or
 sediment disappear. 
  Clean eyeglasses; Wipe each lens with a drop of vinegar.
   When preparing lunches for your children (or anyone), try "drinkable" ice packs: Fill a 12-ounce plastic bottle about halfway with drinking water and freeze it
overnight, tilting the bottle so the water will freeze at an angle (if you freeze it straight up, the expanded water will make the bottle bulge). Next morning pack the lunch, add more drinking water to the bottle, and stick it in the lunch box to keep the food cool and be melted enough to drink by lunchtime.

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