#1Dec 12th, 2008
2. Keep burn bandages in your first aid kit under the sink... some people are known to burn themselves in stupid ways in the kitchen.
Anyone else have any useful kitchen advice?
Kitchen tricks and tips
2. Keep burn bandages in your first aid kit under the sink... some people are known to burn themselves in stupid ways in the kitchen.
Anyone else have any useful kitchen advice?
#2
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008
1. Stainless Steel will remove the smell of fish from your hands. You can buy a bar of stainlss steel or you can use your sink. Just don't use your faucets, they're actually just chrome.
2. Keep onions in the fridge to keep them from making you cry when cutting them. The colder the better.
2. Keep onions in the fridge to keep them from making you cry when cutting them. The colder the better.
#3
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008
1. Most of the things you need for cleaning your kitchen are already in it. Vinegar, baking soda, salt, lemons... all come in handy for various messes, and with the simple addition of borax, a laundry product, you can disinfect surfaces inexpensively as well.
A paste of baking soda and water left to soak on a mess will often lift and scrub clean any gunk you can get on your stove, without scratching the surface. For tougher jobs, salt comes in handy (especially for scrubbing clean wooden cutting boards).
Vinegar makes a great glass cleaner, and pouring it into drains with after a couple teaspoons of baking soda can do wonders for deodorizing a foul drain.
A paste of baking soda and water left to soak on a mess will often lift and scrub clean any gunk you can get on your stove, without scratching the surface. For tougher jobs, salt comes in handy (especially for scrubbing clean wooden cutting boards).
Vinegar makes a great glass cleaner, and pouring it into drains with after a couple teaspoons of baking soda can do wonders for deodorizing a foul drain.
#5
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008Quote:
So, when hiding the knives wasn't enough....pepper is a coagulant.
#6
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Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Said1
so is cornstarch. I think I'd rather grab for the starch personally. lol.pepper is a coagulant.
#8
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Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Twila
So, when hiding the knives wasn't enough....
Only YOU can stop drinking and preparing salads.
#9
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Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Said1
I guess it depends what you have on hand too. I only have a pepper grinder... not about to try and grind pepper whilst bleeding. I can however get to cornstarch easily.My ex always went for the pepper. Total masochist!
#10
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by karrie
Here is about as stupid a way to burn yourself as any I've ever heard about: How about putting an oven mit on one hand, pulling the oven door open with the oven mit hand, and grabbing the hot pot with a bare hand. I wasn't burned very badly. I realized what I was doing just a hair after the nick of time.....
2. Keep burn bandages in your first aid kit under the sink... some people are known to burn themselves in stupid ways in the kitchen.
#11
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by #juan
I almost... very almost... did that the day before yesterday. I nearly cried just at the thought of what the coming weeks would have been like. The kids were busy talking away to me, and I'd opened the oven to check on some chicken I had cooking on a ceramic pan. I couldn't quite see it, so I reached in to pull the whole thing out to look. I caught myself with probably a cm or so between my hand and the pan. Here is about as stupid a way to burn yourself as any I've ever heard about: How about putting an oven mit on one hand, pulling the oven door open with the oven mit hand, and grabbing the hot pot with a bare hand. I wasn't burned very badly. I realized what I was doing just a hair after the nick of time.....
So, kitchen tip... pay attention!!
#12
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by #juan
Here is about as stupid a way to burn yourself as any I've ever heard about: How about putting an oven mit on one hand, pulling the oven door open with the oven mit hand, and grabbing the hot pot with a bare hand. I wasn't burned very badly. I realized what I was doing just a hair after the nick of time.....
I've done worse. I forgot to unplugged the hand blender when i was cleaning it, almost sliced my finger nail off.
#13
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Said1
You were lucky. You could have had a much shorter finger....I'm glad it only caught the nail...
I've done worse. I forgot to unplugged the hand blender when i was cleaning it, almost sliced my finger nail off.
#14
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008
LOL Juan....I can laugh because the same sorta thing happened to me once. Man did I get a startle and a blister....I agree....total concentration whilst in the kitchen is required!
Here's a little cleaning tip...use aluminum foil on the bottom of your oven as it will stay clean longer...the foil catches the drips. Also, when cleaning your oven racks....spray oven cleaner on them and put them in garbage bags to stay moist while cleaning the oven....it amazingly cleans hard/crusted grim off easily.
Here's a little cleaning tip...use aluminum foil on the bottom of your oven as it will stay clean longer...the foil catches the drips. Also, when cleaning your oven racks....spray oven cleaner on them and put them in garbage bags to stay moist while cleaning the oven....it amazingly cleans hard/crusted grim off easily.
Quote: Originally Posted by #juan
Here is about as stupid a way to burn yourself as any I've ever heard about: How about putting an oven mit on one hand, pulling the oven door open with the oven mit hand, and grabbing the hot pot with a bare hand. I wasn't burned very badly. I realized what I was doing just a hair after the nick of time.....
#15
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 12th, 2008
Diarygirl
Here is something we ran across just a few days ago. We just bought new appliances a short time ago. The stove that was in the current house when we bought it was not self-cleaning. We had company coming and we wanted everything spotless. We put the oven on the clean cycle over two hours before our company was to arrive. As it turned out, the clean cycle wouldn't let us into the oven for about three and a half hours. Needless to say, we couldn't put our horsdoeuvres in the oven and we kind of wrecked our own evening.
Here is something we ran across just a few days ago. We just bought new appliances a short time ago. The stove that was in the current house when we bought it was not self-cleaning. We had company coming and we wanted everything spotless. We put the oven on the clean cycle over two hours before our company was to arrive. As it turned out, the clean cycle wouldn't let us into the oven for about three and a half hours. Needless to say, we couldn't put our horsdoeuvres in the oven and we kind of wrecked our own evening.
#16
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 13th, 2008
We just got a new stove and I could write a couple paragraphs about some of the idiosyncrasies of the new smooth top convection stoves.
1. If you are baking something, turn the oven on to the desired temperature before you even start because it can take almost half an hour to heat up. This is a step backwards because in our old stove the Broiler element came on to help heat the oven quickly. Never took more than five minutes to heat up.
2. The stove top elements can take at least a half hour to cool off so they are a possible burn danger for some time after they've been turned off.
There are a few other things, but these two are the main ones.
1. If you are baking something, turn the oven on to the desired temperature before you even start because it can take almost half an hour to heat up. This is a step backwards because in our old stove the Broiler element came on to help heat the oven quickly. Never took more than five minutes to heat up.
2. The stove top elements can take at least a half hour to cool off so they are a possible burn danger for some time after they've been turned off.
There are a few other things, but these two are the main ones.
#17
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 13th, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Diarygirl
Some new stove have a hidden element (like my new one), so you can't do that. Putting foil in the bottom of my stove would likely destroy it, as the element would then be beneath the foil and you'd be trying to heat the oven through foil.LOL Juan....I can laugh because the same sorta thing happened to me once. Man did I get a startle and a blister....I agree....total concentration whilst in the kitchen is required!
Here's a little cleaning tip...use aluminum foil on the bottom of your oven as it will stay clean longer...the foil catches the drips. Also, when cleaning your oven racks....spray oven cleaner on them and put them in garbage bags to stay moist while cleaning the oven....it amazingly cleans hard/crusted grim off easily.
#18
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 13th, 2008
You're right Karrie
There is a blurb in the owner's manual about putting foil on the bottom of the convection oven. A definite no-no.
There is a blurb in the owner's manual about putting foil on the bottom of the convection oven. A definite no-no.
#19
Re: Kitchen tricks and tips
Dec 13th, 2008
For cleaning the floor try one of those "shark" steam cleaners...it disinfects without chemicals....ready in seconds and is quick quick quick....
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