- For an odorless and mold-‐free refrigerator, clean your refrigerator by scrubbing with a baking soda and water solution.
- For crispy french fries, cut into strips, salt and freeze them. Throw them into the hot oil without thawing.
- If salsa comes out too thick, add a bit of milk. By doing so, it won´t lose its form, taste, nor texture.
- In order to check whether your pasta is ready, take one of the noodles and throw it against a wall. If it sticks, it is ready.
- To remove food stuck on your pots and pans, all you need to do is sprinkle a little bit of baking soda, add a few cups of water and place them to simmer for a while. Then let them soak a few hours and they are good as new.
- To easily peel tomatoes put them in boiling water for three minutes.
- In order to avoid oil from splashing up when frying an egg, sprinkle some salt evenly throughout the pan.
- When you want to separate two cups that are stuck together, roll them over a flat surface and they will quickly separate without tearing.
- To remove onion odor from your hands take a half cup of milk and wash them, then wash them again with regular soap.
- So that your soups and stews have less fat, you can add a few cubes of ice, agitate and the grease will stick to the fat. Remove the ice before it melts.
- Do not throw away coffee grounds, use them to clean the oil off a container.
- To keep an onion fresh for a longer period of time, smear the part of the onion that was cut with butter before refridgerating.
- After cutting up fruit, it begins to darken;to prevent this, place them in cold water with lemon juice for at least 20 min.
- Place a bag of mothballs in your trash can to ward off insects. This way you will also avoid bad odors.
- When freezing food its important to remove as much air as possible. To do this we place one food item per bag, close the bag but leave a small opening to insert a straw. Suck the remaining amount of air out of the bag, remove straw and close the small opening.
- To reduce the flavor of the onion you can cut in slices and leave the rings soaking in water for 40 minutes.
- To consume less salt you can start adding flavor to your food with herbs and seasonings that are low in salt. You can continue using salt but moderately.
- To prevent your food from becoming too salty when you accidentally pour in too much salt, add some potato slices in. When your food is ready remove the potatoes, they have removed the salt.
- To avoid watery eyes when chopping onions, refrigerate prior to chopping. Remove root, peel in cold water and keep your mouth closed during the chopping process.
- For those times when you have added too much garlic to your food there is a solution. Place parsley flakes in a tea pouch and place in the stew, the parsley flakes will help to decrease the garlic flavor.