Despite the fact that in the modern rhythm of life we rarely manage to find time for cooking, we still want to live in comfort and eat well. And to eat well, you need to know how to cook. Especially for you, we have collected recipes for the simplest home-cooked dishes, without which no one’s life can do.
1. How to boil an egg
A perfectly hard-boiled egg should have a soft and bright yellow yolk, not pale or even bluish (a bluish and greenish yolk indicates that the egg is overcooked).
To properly boil multiple eggs, you'll need a pot large enough to hold all the eggs in without touching, but not large enough for the eggs to move around in. So, pour water into the pot - just enough to cover the eggs when you put them in. Bring the water to a boil and gently lower the eggs into the boiling water. It is advisable to do this with a tablespoon so as not to burn yourself and not drop the egg, damaging the shell. Eggs should boil for 8 minutes. After exactly 8 minutes, remove the eggs (also with a spoon), drain the hot water and pour the eggs with cold water (it is advisable to place them under running water). As a result, you should get perfectly cooked hard-boiled eggs.
2. How to cook scrambled eggs
French scrambled eggs are best cooked when the finished scrambled eggs have a semi-liquid gravy consistency (English scrambled eggs are dry, firmer). Previously, cooks used a double boiler to prepare this type of scrambled eggs so that the cooked dish had a thick consistency. We suggest using a faster method at the rate of 2-4 eggs per person.
Put 30-40 grams of butter in a medium-sized saucepan and put it on low heat. While the butter is melting, crack the eggs into a ceramic bowl. When the butter is completely melted (but it should not boil, and the fire should not be strong), salt and pepper the eggs thoroughly, then beat them with a fork until a uniform consistency is obtained. Do not add anything to the eggs at this stage. Slowly pour the beaten eggs into the melted butter pan, stirring constantly. If the mixture does not thicken, the fire can be increased. Soon clumps of finished eggs should appear on the surface. Continue stirring the eggs until the eggs are fully cooked, then immediately remove the pan from the heat. Add another 20-30 grams of butter and stir until the butter is melted, then add 3-4 tablespoons of cream or sour cream (maybe more if you prefer a thinner scrambled egg). If needed, add more salt to taste.
3. How to cook an omelet
To cook a good omelette, you need to know only one rule - the omelette should not burn. To make an omelette, you will need a small frying pan. Turn on medium heat and melt a little butter in a heated pan. While the butter is melting, crack the eggs into a ceramic bowl, add salt and pepper to taste, and whisk until the yolks and whites are combined until smooth. When the butter has melted, pour the eggs into the pan. Gently stir the omelet with a wooden spoon to prevent hardening and crusting. When the eggs are almost ready, remove the pan from the heat and place on the grill for a few minutes until a yellowish (but not brown!) crust forms on top. Remove the pan from the grill, fold the omelette in half and place on a plate. If desired, you can add cheese or cream to the omelette before sending the pan to the grill.
4. How to cook pasta
There is nothing complicated about making pasta. To do this, you will need a capacious pot - for example, the pot in which you usually prepare the broth is ideal. Half fill a saucepan with cold water and season well with salt - this is necessary to emphasize the taste of the pasta. Do not add oil or other ingredients to the water. Put the pot on the fire and bring the water to a boil. When the water boils, put the pasta into it. Stir the water from time to time so that the pasta does not stick to the bottom of the pan and stick together. Different types of pasta require different cooking times (but in general about 8 minutes), so we recommend that you read the instructions on the pasta package. You need to check the readiness of the pasta two minutes before the time indicated on the package. To test if your pasta is ready, take out one spaghetti (or other variety) and try it. If the pasta is soft on the outside but firm on the inside, it is ready (this stage of cooking is called "al dente"). Drain some of the water in which the pasta was cooked into a separate container, after which the water can be drained, but not completely, otherwise the pasta will be too dry. It is not necessary to rinse the paste with running water. In Italy, pasta is often served with butter and parmesan. If you prefer a sauce, use the water you drained from the pasta to make it.
5. How to cook the perfect steak
This is a French steak recipe, and the French love uncooked steaks. So, you'll need a heavy, heavy-bottomed skillet or grill grate. Place a frying pan or grate on the highest heat. Take a thick steak (at least 2 cm thick) and lightly salt and pepper it on both sides. If you use a grill grate, grease the meat with sunflower oil, then the technology is the same. Pour one to two tablespoons of sunflower oil into a hot frying pan (enough to grease the surface of the frying pan). Now add 20-30 grams of butter. The butter should melt and boil. The bottom of the pan should be covered with a 1-2 mm layer of boiling butter. Place the steak in the pan and leave it untouched for a few minutes (depending on how well done your steak is). The steak should not move around the pan, otherwise it will not form an appetizing crust:
Almost raw: 1 minute each side
Semi-raw: 2-3 minutes on each side
Medium: 4 minutes each side
Well done: 5-6 minutes per side
Before turning the steak on the other side, you can add more butter (if necessary). Turn the steak over and don't touch it until the time is right. Remove the cooked steak from the pan, put on a plate, cover with foil and leave for 3-5 minutes. After this time, the steak can be served.
6. How to cook rice
For most people who are far from cooking, cooking rice is terrifying. It's actually very easy to make rice. So, what is the secret of fluffy fluffy rice? You will need long-grain white rice, such as basmati. The recipe is for 3-4 people.
Pour a little vegetable oil (2-3 tablespoons) into a medium-sized saucepan and place the saucepan over medium heat. When the oil is hot, put the finely chopped half of the onion into the pan (the onion is optional, but the oil is a must!). Fry the onion until light golden brown. Add a full glass of rice to the fried onions and mix thoroughly. Pour rice with onions with two glasses of hot water (you can not boil it). When cooking rice, observe the ratio of 1: 2 (for one glass of rice - two glasses of water). Salt generously. For a change, you can add half a cinnamon stick to the rice. Wait for the rice to boil again and cover the pot with a lid. Reduce heat to low and set timer for 15 minutes. During this time, do not remove or lift the cover. Remove the lid after 15 minutes and check to see if there is any liquid left in the pot. To do this, tilt the pan towards you, holding the rice with a fork. If liquid remains, cover the pot and let it sit for a few more minutes, this time checking the rice every minute as described above. When there is no liquid left in the rice, remove the lid and cover the pot with a towel for 4-5 minutes. That's all!
7. How to make mashed potatoes
This is a tried and true method of making lump-free mashed potatoes and is used by chefs in French restaurants. So, peel and cut in half 6 medium sized potatoes. Place the peeled potatoes in a saucepan (the saucepan should be 2/3 full). Pour the potatoes with water and generously salt (the water should be salty). Bring the water to a boil and cover the pan with a lid, but not completely, otherwise the water will run off. Depending on the variety of potatoes, cooking takes 10-25 minutes. When the potato is ready, that is, soft, but does not fall apart, it must be removed from the pan, after carefully draining the water. Pour 3/4 cup of cream or sour cream into another saucepan or fireproof dish and bring to a boil. As soon as the cream boils, immediately turn off the heat. Rub the boiled potatoes through a sieve (the same one you use to sift flour), helping yourself with a tablespoon. The occupation is quite difficult, but your efforts will justify themselves. Put the potatoes, mashed through a sieve, into a saucepan and put on a slow fire. Add butter (30-50 grams) and gently mix it with potatoes (with a wooden spoon!) until a homogeneous mass is obtained. While stirring the potatoes, slowly pour in the hot cream - this will speed up the process of softening the butter and make the taste of the potatoes softer. Carefully monitor the amount of cream - the potatoes should not turn into a liquid, its consistency should be thick. Add grated nutmeg to the finished puree. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve mashed potatoes hot.
8. How to cook fried potatoes
First of all, potatoes are best fried in goose or duck fat. If this is not possible, replace the fat with lard or greaves. Cut the peeled potatoes into medium-sized pieces (small potatoes - in half, large potatoes - into four parts). Melt the fat in a preheated pan at the rate of 50 grams of fat per 500 grams of potatoes. Add the chopped potatoes to the skillet and stir until the potatoes are all greased. Salt and pepper. Cook at 190C for 40 minutes. Ready potatoes should be golden in color, crispy with a light crust. .
9. How to cook vegetables
Different vegetables require different cooking times, but this method is versatile and you can use it with any type of vegetable. So, peel the vegetables and cut them into roughly the same medium-sized pieces. Put the chopped vegetables in a saucepan and cover with boiling water just enough to cover them with water. Salt the water thoroughly. Then put the saucepan over medium heat and bring the water to a boil. Periodically check the readiness of vegetables with a match. Vegetables should be soft enough to be pierced, but should not fall apart when touched. Green vegetables should not drastically change color, they should remain green. If the vegetables are too soft, then they are overcooked. When the vegetables are ready, drain the water and immediately serve them to the table.
10. How to cook fried chicken
Oddly enough, cooking fried chicken is very simple. In a gutted chicken (or chicken), after salting and peppering it, put a bay leaf, a crushed clove of garlic and a few cumin leaves. Brush the chicken skin generously with softened (but not completely melted!) butter and salt. Place the prepared chicken breast-side down on the baking sheet (this way the breast will not burn and will not be dry). The oven must be preheated to 200°C. This temperature should be maintained for half of the chicken cooking time (cooking time is calculated using the formula: 15 minutes per 450 grams of chicken, plus 15 minutes extra). Turn the chicken breast-side up after half the cooking time. Put the finished chicken on a heated dish and wait 15 minutes before serving it on the table (this is necessary so that the fat drains, the meat softens and soaks in the juices). Chicken cooked this way has a crispy crust and soft, juicy meat.
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The ability to do some useful things with your own hands very often helps out economically. A person who knows how to handle tools and has ingenuity replaces many purchased goods with home-made ones. Moreover, these are not only some trifles, but also quite serious, necessary home appliances.
Their production saves a lot of money and gives sincere pleasure from the opportunity to create something useful with your own hands and thanks to your own imagination. Perhaps our advice will be useful not only to beginner Kulibins, but also to experienced home craftsmen who cannot sit without work.
Do-it-yourself brazier-smokehouse from a barrel or gas cylinder (with video)
Let's start not with a trifle, but quite such a serious and useful thing in any country house, like a barbecue. It can also be a grill and smokehouse. If you can’t sit at home on summer days, and relaxing in the country does not strike the imagination with diversity, it’s time to make just such a barbecue and invite friends to picnics in nature. Such devices never stand idle and are always very popular in the warmest months of the year.
To make a homemade grill, you will first need to find an old barrel or a couple of empty gas cylinders. Its size and some functional features depend on the format of the product. Of course, in order to make such devices as a brazier, you must be able to work with metal and handle welding equipment. So these tips are only suitable for experienced craftsmen.
Useful tips for making homemade barbecue:
1. First you need to cut a lid in the barrel for the future barbecue. The photo shows a cutting diagram. If you want to make a more complex design with three sections (brazier, smokehouse and barbecue) from used 50 liter gas cylinders, watch the video. It details and shows how holes are cut in cylinders.
2. A handle must be welded to the lid. Be sure to have a wooden handle, which will help to avoid burns during frying.
3. If the smokehouse is made from cylinders and will later have 3 sections, then they will need to be welded to each other, as shown in the video. Pay attention to the design of the homemade. It provides for such things as a blower, a hole for draining the "soup" that is formed during the smoking process, etc.
4. The brazier can be installed on iron legs. For example, as in the same video, the master used a stand from a foot-operated sewing machine. Such a rarity can be found at the flea market. If you are not lucky with interesting finds, ask your friends if someone has an old typewriter lying around in the attic. In extreme cases, you can make homemade legs from scrap.
5. Then the lid is attached to the barbecue. If desired, a skewer can be built into the brazier for roasting large carcasses (suckling pig, nutria, goose, etc.). In order not to turn the spit on its own, a motor is connected to it. How to do all this is shown in the video.
6. A grill is laid on the "bottom" of the brazier. Since both the cylinder and the barrel are rounded, the grate does not lie directly on the bottom, but is located at some distance from it. The grille can be used ready-made or welded independently. For experienced welders, this is not difficult. After the complete assembly of the structure, you can try it in action (video).
Homemade from empty plastic bottles: hanging gardens
With your own hands, you can make not only such “high-tech” devices as a brazier-smokehouse, but also various pleasant little things for the home and garden. These small and fairly simple crafts are very useful things that can cost a fortune in specialized stores.
Useful little things for the interior can be made from empty plastic bottles, which are apparently invisible in cities. For example, you can make a chic hanging garden on a brick wall. Usually, climbing plants themselves “creep” up along wrought-iron fences, forming a thick green, and sometimes also a flowering wall. She makes the garden very beautiful and cozy.
But if the fence around the house is solid (stone or brick), and you want more greenery, the inventions of home craftsmen will help out. To equip hanging gardens on your site, you don’t even have to buy pots and then think about how to attach ropes to them. Elementary homemade products from plastic bottles and fishing line will help.
How to make homemade pots for a hanging garden around the house
To make these extremely useful, but at the same time very simple things, you will need to collect about 20-30 bottles. The volume must be chosen depending on what plants you want to decorate the fence around the house. For those who like more space and have an extensive root system, you should choose bottles of 1.5-2 liters. On one side, a “window” is cut for a flower. The cork must be tightened so that the soil does not spill out of the bottle.
On both sides, holes should be made for fishing line, with which homemade pots will be attached to the top of the fence. Then you need to fill the bottle with soil (preferably immediately fertilized and prepared for planting an ornamental plant). It should fill the container about halfway so that the plant has somewhere to take root. But you shouldn’t pour a lot of earth either, otherwise the homemade pots for the hanging garden around the house will be too heavy.
At the end, you need to plant flowers and fix homemade pots made by yourself on the wall. It is better to do this in a checkerboard pattern, so that subsequently overgrown plants form a thick green "wall". Climbing flowering plants look very good: they grow very densely and delight the eye with bright colors almost all summer and a good half of autumn.
Useful little things for a country house: a curtain and a spray bottle from plastic bottles
From plastic bottles, you can make other crafts and useful things for a cozy life. Our advice will help you to equip your cottage as cheaply as possible. For example, it is not at all necessary to buy curtains for a gazebo or a loggia. They can be made from the bottoms of plastic bottles.
They already have a pretty nice shape. It remains just to cut them out and fasten them together with a fishing line, as in the photo. Even a child can do such crafts, and at the same time they look quite impressive.
Our advice concerns not only decorative interior moments. From used plastic bottles, you can create such useful things as a sprayer for watering a garden or lawn. Such devices are quite expensive in stores, and their device is so simple that you can literally make such useful little things at your leisure in a couple of minutes.
Tips on how to make a sprayer for watering the garden / lawn around the house
If there is a lawn around your country house that needs regular watering, our tips for creating a simple fixture for this will come in handy. For work, you will need such trifles as a few ballpoint pens that have served their purpose and one empty plastic bottle.
You need to make holes in the bottle. In diameter, they should match the diameter of the body of a ballpoint pen. The rods from the handles must be removed, and the bodies themselves must be fixed in the holes in the bottle. After that, we make a hole in the lid for the hose mount and fasten the latter to the neck of the bottle. Now it remains only to throw the sprayer on the lawn and connect the water.
Such simple and at the same time extremely convenient devices greatly facilitate the life of a summer resident. The plastic bottle sprayer can be easily transferred to another part of the garden (lawn) after the first area has been well watered. Even a child can cope with this task, because plastic is a very light material.
These are useful things that can be made literally from garbage - ordinary plastic bottles, which in cities are thrown into landfills by the ton.
Tips and inventions needed in everyday life: do-it-yourself summer shower
You just don’t want to spend money on many devices, because in time their production takes just nothing. For example, things like outdoor showers are very easy to do yourself. You will need 1 metal corner, nails, a water hose, electrical tape and an empty aluminum beer can.
Tips on how to do these crafts:
1. To make a water sprayer, you first need to cut off the bottom of the beer can.
2. On the other side, the hole should be widened a little so that the hose nozzle can be attached.
3. To prevent water from seeping into the holes of the craft, the attachment point is carefully closed with electrical tape.
4. To attach this simple invention, the corner must be attached to the fence. We drill holes and just nail it.
5. The point is small - turn on the water and enjoy the summer shower.
Any home craftsman collects a huge number of different things that need to find a specific place. These are all sorts of little things: nails, screws, coils of electrical tape, etc. In order not to lose all these things that are necessary in the household, special storage devices are used. Of course, you need to do them only with your own hands.
An excellent storage for various little things is easy to make from 2 empty plastic bottles. First, we cut off the bottom of each of them, then attach a zipper to the cut of the future craft and simply fasten it. That's it, now you have a place to put various important little things with which you will make your crafts or even create real inventions.
Simple crafts - the first step towards great achievements
All the crafts presented by us are fairly simple options for what you can do with your own hands from improvised means. The most savvy craftsmen know how to turn banal household items into amazing inventions. By the way, many of them are real inventions, often worthy of some kind of award, if not on a global, then certainly on a regional scale.
If you want to join the cohort of self-taught masters, try making the simple crafts presented to your attention. Perhaps over time you will develop a taste for manual creativity, and you will become a brilliant craftsman or even an inventor.
Useful tips for the home, little life hacks from users, if collected and combined, can take thousands and thousands of pages. Each housewife has her own little secrets and tricks on how to deal with stains on clothes, clean upholstered furniture or wash curtains.
This article provides non-traditional useful tips for home and life. After all, situations are different, in each of them you want to be on top.
Using these useful tips for the home, you can effortlessly clean up the house with improvised means.
- if the pipes are clogged, and there are no special tools in the house and the shops are closed, you can try to cope with the trouble with the help of ordinary table salt. A glass of salt is poured into a clogged pipe and two liters of boiling water are poured. The blockage must be removed;
- you can quickly clean plaque-covered faucets and taps with ordinary toothpaste and a sponge;
- Cleaning the refrigerator takes a lot of time? after all shelves and containers are washed and dried, wrap them with cling film. If something spills or crumbles, it will be enough just to remove the film and replace it with a clean one;
- You can quickly clean the blinds with a mitt. put a mitten on your hand and quickly wipe all the slats;
- soot on the grill grate can be easily removed if the device is still hot, wiped with half a raw onion, chopped on a fork;
- quickly remove dirt, grease, remove an unpleasant smell from a wooden cutting board, countertops in the kitchen can be half a lemon, which must be dipped in kitchen salt.
- don't know how to get your family to help you clean up? Motivate them. Come up with small rewards. For example, whoever vacuums the carpet will choose a program on TV in the evening, and whoever does the dishes will receive a delicious dessert without restrictions. Or cold beer with fish.
Did you find something useful? Then read on, there are many more interesting and necessary life hacks.
Clothes, shoes and accessories
In order for fashionable and stylish things to please more than one season, they need to be properly looked after, washed and stored. And if there are still minor troubles - be able to eliminate them.
- An unpleasant smell in a bag, suitcase, wardrobes with clothes can be eliminated with the help of tea bags. It is enough just to carry it in a small pocket, or place it between stacks of things. From time to time, the bags need to be changed;
- greasy places on clothes can be removed by rubbing them with a slice of raw potatoes;
- if the sleeves of a knitted jumper or woolen sweater are stretched out, they can be restored in this way: tightly rolled up or tied and immersed in hot water for several minutes;
- a corduroy jacket or cardigan cannot be washed, and dry cleaning is expensive. You can tidy up a fashionable thing if you first clean it with a brush dipped in a solution of washing powder, and then in ordinary clean water;
- so that a silk dress or blouse can be smoothed out more easily, before ironing, wrap the item with a damp cloth for half an hour;
- you can clean a white fur cape, collar or cap by rubbing heated crushed chalk, starch or semolina into the product;
- wrinkled, shiny ties can be put in order by wrapping them around a jar of hot water;
- yellowed white shoes and sneakers can be updated by cleaning with tooth powder or crushed chalk;
- Soaked suede boots or shoes can be quickly cleaned up by holding them over hot steam, brushing the outside, and vacuuming the inside.
Other little things
This section includes useful home tips from experienced housewives that will help make your food tastier, your appearance neater and more attractive.
- want your vegetable salad with butter dressing to be simply delicious and perfectly seasoned? First, combine spices, salt and lemon juice or vinegar, achieve a perfect combination of all components, and then pour in the oil. Remember that salt does not dissolve in oil;
- to make the broth transparent and rich, do not allow a strong boil and do not cover the pan with a lid;
- no one can refuse your fragrant and strong coffee if you add a few grains of salt along with your favorite spices to ground coffee during the brewing process;
- so that the pasta does not stick together and does not boil, especially small ones, they are poured into salted, boiling water, stirred, allowed to boil again, turned off and covered with a lid. After ten minutes, the pasta will be completely ready, all that remains is to drain the excess water and add your favorite sauce;
- the skin will be velvety and tender if you apply body oil immediately after a shower, without wiping, on still damp skin;
- Do you strive for the aroma of your favorite perfume to envelop not only you, but also soar throughout the house? Do not throw away a bottle of perfume after it has run out. Remove the dispenser, pour in some water and insert wooden sticks. The aroma will saturate the wood and spread throughout the apartment;
- bags under the eyes, circles and redness can be quickly removed if you apply soup spoons - before the procedure, you need to place them in the freezer for a quarter of an hour.
It is difficult to remember all these undeniably useful tips for the home, so in the end it’s worth giving one more small and also necessary recommendation: print all your favorite home tips on a sheet of paper, laminate it and hang it in the kitchen.
Then, in the event of another emergency, you will not have to call friends and relatives, or wander around the Internet - all useful tips for home and not only that could help you will always be in front of your eyes.
Perfection knows no bounds! If you do household chores thoughtfully and with inspiration, you can significantly make your life easier. It is always useful to use the tricks that were invented by resourceful housewives, because with their help you can save not only time spent on household chores, but also your own strength.
These entertaining life hacks will come in handy in both routine and unusual situations - read the information that will help you make life easier. Who would have thought that marshmallows have such an effect ...
- To keep the cheese longer, apply a little butter to the cut. With it, cheese wrapped in a package will never get moldy in the refrigerator.
- Thick plastic is very convenient to cut with a can opener! I will do it this way now...
- With a long pasta, it is easy to light candles.
- Vaporab ointment or a similar warming ointment will help you keep your pet from scratching the wounds. Apply ointment to the problem area, and the animal will not lick it.
- A couple of drops of vodka and a teaspoon of sugar will prolong the life of flowers in a vase for a significant period.
- A large spoon easily opens jars with stubborn, tight lids. Pry the edge with a spoon and you're done!
- Mix vinegar and fabric conditioner, and spray the mixture onto your clothes with a spray bottle. Wrinkled things do not have to be ironed - they will even out and become soft.
- Sore throat? Eat marshmallows! Gelatin soothes a sore throat and relieves pain. Mmm…
- Used tea bags can be used as compresses after sunburn. It immediately becomes easier!
- Do you want the music from your phone to sound louder? Amplify the sound by placing the gadget in a bowl or cup.
- A trash can in the car is essential! Use a resealable plastic container (like cereal) for this purpose.
- This is how a moon manicure is done! Perfect solution.
- Pain shock from a burn is removed with the help of mustard. Powder the damaged area, and it will not bother you so much.
- A roller with adhesive tape will help you get dust and dirt from hard-to-reach places.
- Lens solution is a great way to bring dried mascara back to life. I'll try right now...
- Modification of conventional hooks. Don't forget to break off the piece you want from the tin before you throw it away.
- Water stains and cup marks on the surface of wooden furniture can be masked with mayonnaise. Works instantly!
- Lubricate the candlestick with oil before placing the candle there - the wax will not stick, everything will look neat.
I love tip #15 - I wonder how anyone came up with this idea?
There are a huge number of ideas that will help you in everyday life. Some will be useful if you cook, others while cleaning the room, others while traveling. Here are just a few of the very useful ideas you can use.
1. Use clothespins to cover a bag of chips, cereal, etc.
2. If your fly is constantly unzipping, use a key ring.
3. Use frozen grapes to chill wine without diluting it with water (which comes from melting ice cubes).
4. How to put two bowls in one microwave.
5. When the child grows up, you can make a table out of the crib for various activities.
6. Clean your sink without expensive chemicals. Pour half a cup of baking soda and one cup of vinegar into a clogged sink. When the foam is gone, rinse the sink with water.
7. If you need to hang something on the wall and need to know where to drill, make a copy of the item and use it as a template.
8. Insert a tea bag into smelly shoes and it will absorb unpleasant odors.
9. Place a folded newspaper in the bottom of the bin to absorb the liquid from some foods.
10. If you want to heat a dish in the microwave, make a hole in it and it will heat evenly.
11. Wrap a bottle of beer in paper towels and place in the freezer to chill your beer in just 2 minutes.
12. Use a clothespin to hold the nail in place when hammering it if you are afraid of hurting your finger with a hammer.
13. Some plastic packaging can be opened with modern can openers.
14. You can "hide" small scratches on furniture by rubbing a walnut on them.
15. The ice pack starts to drip when the ice melts. To avoid this, you can fill the sponge with water, place it in a plastic bag and freeze. You will get your own ice pack that does not drip.
16. A razor blade can be sharpened by running the razor over old denim.
17. Would you like to make a sausage sandwich? Maybe you like this option better (no exposed corners)?
18. How to carefully cut several tomatoes at once without injuring your fingers and without splashing the juice?
19. If you put a wooden spoon on a pan, then boiling water will not spill, because. the spoon will pop the rising bubbles.
20. If you add a teaspoon of baking soda while boiling an egg, you can easily remove the shell.
21. If someone always picks up your pen at work or school, put the blue ink in the red pen. Thus, the likelihood that someone will take your pen again will decrease significantly.
22. If you put your mobile phone in flight mode, it will charge twice as fast.
23. Use tape to fix the problem of blurry photos taken with your phone.
24. If you attach a small flashlight to a plastic water bottle, you get a large and bright lantern.
25. To take your phone, money and keys to the beach without getting them wet or covered with sand, you can use an empty, washed and dried plastic bottle of shampoo or cream.
26. And here's how you can charge your phone while traveling (a USB cable will help, because many hotels have TVs with a USB input).
27. How to quickly fold a T-shirt.
28. Here's how to fold spare clothes compactly.
29. If you need to use AA batteries for a particular gadget, and you only have AAA batteries, you can use folded foil. Such batteries will not last long, but in emergency cases this method will help you.
30. If you want to play games on your smartphone, but pop-up ads bother you, put your phone in flight mode.
