Cooking tips
Practical kitchen wisdom — 183 tips and counting.
Remove fruit or vegetable stains from your hands with vinegar
Rub your hands with vinegar and rinse with water to remove stains from fruits or vegetables
Take the edge off your appetite with vinegar
Drinking a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and a bit of honey in a glass of water will take the edge off your...
Keeping ants away using vinegar
Spray vinegar around doors, windows, appliances or other ant pathways to keep them away
Cleaning fish tanks with vinegar
Clean fist tanks by rubbing the dirty surface with a cloth dipped in vinegar and then rinsing well
Using vinegar to kill grass and weeds
Pour or spray with full strength vinegar unwanted grass and weeds until they starve
Using vinegar for cleaning
When using vinegar for cleaning, use any kind of vinegar except cider vinegar. Cider vinegar will stain porous...
What to avoid when cooking pasta
Do not add salt to the cooking water before the latter comes to a boil. Doing so will increase the boiling tim...
How much pasta per person
Use around 100 grams of dried pasta and 80 grams of fresh pasta per person.
Preparing dried black eyed peas
Clean black eyed peas from small stones and other foreigh material and then rinse. Soak the beans in cold wate...