Little Secrets In Daily Life

Little Secrets In Daily Life 1 . Hot and spicy to tears, what to do? If you accidentally eat the hot food that makes you shed tears, your first thought will be probably a glass of water . However, hot water is not a solution, it will make it more spicy . In fact, the best solution is to drink hot milk . 2 . Keeping tofu firm Soft tofu in the cooking process is very easy to break into pieces . If you want to maintain the integrity of tofu, you can soak it in salt water for about 30 minutes before cooking . 3 . Soup is too salty Making soup with too much salt, the subtle taste of the soup will be destroyed . If this happens, the remedy is to add cooked potato pieces for few minutes . The potato will absorb the salt . When soup is served, then remove the potatos . 4 . Soak a little vinegar before cutting taros Cutting taro can make your hands itching . Soaking your hands in vinegar before cutting taros will prevent your from itching . 5 . How to remove the wax from an apple If you often eat apples with their skin, then you would need to remove the wax first before eating . . . . (a) place the apple into hot water, the apple's wax will vanish . (b) Apply toothpaste on the apple to clean out the wax . 6 . How to slow down potato germination? Potato buds contain toxic alkaloids which can cause abdominal pain and dizziness . Placing an apple in potatoes can significantly delay thier germination time . Ethylene gas produced by apple has hampered the effectiveness of potato development . Putting apples together with papayas or kiwi will make them ripe faster . Further, apples can make persimmon astringency disappear but sweeten after a week . 7 . How to make good rice After washing rice in water, add a few drops of lemon juice, (or a few drops of oil), cooked rice will turn out good and fragrant . 8 . How to keep biscuits crispy When storing biscuits in a container, put a sugar cube in it at the same time . As the sugar absorbs the moisture in the container, biscuits or cookies can remain crispy and delicious . 9 . What can be done if clothing stains with ink If ink gets on your clothing or fabric, you can use cooked rice or paste with a little detergent to remove the stain . Use your fingers to smear repeatly on the spot, stain can be removed quickly . Then soak it into fresh water with ordinary cleaning agent for a period of time before washing . 10 . How to treat smelly shoes Put a small amount of baking soda directly into the boots, sneakers or shoes, that are obviously smelly due to dampness . Baking soda powder has the effect of absorbing moisture and odor . 11 . Ring around the collar, or spotty under the armpit area of the clothing First brush some shampoo, shaving cream or lotion on the dirty area for five minutes . Then wash off the stain . 12 . How to keep flower fresh Adding a little beer in the vase can keep house flowers fresh for an extended period of time . This is because beer contains alcohol which is both antiseptic and disinfectant . Beer also contains sugar and other nutrients for the leaves . 13 . How to sharpen scissors Stacked three aluminum foil together, then cut them with the scissors to be sharpen . You will see surprising result . 14 . How to remove annoying gummed labels It is quite annoying when comes to remove the price tags on merchandise . To remove the gummed lables neatly, all you need is to use a hair dryer to apply heat on the label before taking them off . 15 . What can you do with beer beside drinking Most people know milk is good in cleaning foliage plants . In fact, use leftover beer to wipe plants is even better! Dip a cotton ball into beer, lightly wipe leaves to remove dust and keep them lustery . Furthermore, this method also prevents ants from coming to the plant . 15 . What to do with unwanted perfumes Before throwing them away, unwanted perfumes could be useful . You can use unwanted perfume to clean indoor light bulbs with cotton balls . When the bulbs light up and warm up, the whole room would be filled with the aroma . 17 . Remove crayon graffiti from wooden furniture . If you have kids at home, wooden furniture are subject to crayon graffiti . Crayon stains cannot be removed with water . Although the use of paint solvents can do the job, the paint on the surface could be damaged . The most suitable method is to use toothpaste . Not only it cleans, it does no harm to the furniture . 18 . Use vinegar to help mopping the kitchen floor . The kitchen floor is often easy to get greasy . Before mopping the kitchen floor, pour some vinegar on the mop . This will enable easy removal of grease . 19 . How to remove stains from tea cups Stained tea cups can affect their appearance . To clean up the stain with a man made loofah cloth the cups would have scraches in the long run . Just spread a little toothpaste and hand-wash the cups, stain can be removed easily . If the stain is too thick, wait a few minutes after applying toothpaste before washing . 20 . Improved floor sweeping The unused stockings can be attached to a broom to clean the floor . Stockings can help sweeping up cotton, hair and other particles that are difficult to sweep with an ordinary broom .