Handy Hints
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In your Kitchen
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To keep your salt and pepper loose and free flowing, add a few dried peas, this also works for keeping parmesan cheese loose. This tip was sent in by Lee Graham. |
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In your Kitchen
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If your sink drain is smelling,, put one teaspoon of bicarbonate soda down the drain, followed immediately by 1/2 a cup of vinegar Leave for 1/2 hour. If still smelling do it again.Thanks to Richard Ross for that tip. |
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In your Kitchen
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Judy Kennedy rang to say peel a potato, put it in the pot when you are cooking pasta. This will prevent the pasta sticking together. |
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In your Kitchen
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David MacLean sent this handy hint. If you have trouble cleaning the top of your kitchen cupboards place a sheet of paper on top of the cupboards, then every month fold it up and throw it away, then replace the paper. |
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In your Kitchen
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Put a cup of rice (uncooked) into your coffee grinder to clean it. The rice will also sharpen the blades. |
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In your Kitchen
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To keep rubbish bins odour free, try and keep free space in deep freeze to freeze all scraps, bones, fish blotting paper etc that would 'go off' before the week is up. Place in an empty bread or cereal bag to identify easily and put in rubbish collection bag frozen. |
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In your Kitchen
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Jane Lee uses a nail file as a book mark for her recipe books. Then if she ever breaks a nail she has a file close at hand. |
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In your Kitchen
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Judy Toop sprinkles sugar on the base of her freezer when she is defrosting it. She uses a rubber spatula to remove the ice. Some people use a hairdryer to speed up the defrosting process but this can damage the coils. |
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In your Kitchen
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Susan Allinson accidently left her steel wool scouring pad in the freezer, and realized that they do not rust in there, now she stores them there when she is not using them |
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In your Kitchen
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This tip was sent by Anne Hunt who uses glycerine on a cotton wool ball to remove stains from her laminated kitchen bench such as beet root |
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Handy Hints
Every week several newspapers through out the Manawatu, Wanganui and Kapiti Coast feature our popular handy hints column. Most of these hints are sent to us from readers of the columns. The hints are collated on this page.
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Handy Hints