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When you buy citrus you should always rinse it in a 10-to-1 water to bleach ratio (10 parts water, 1 part bleach) and let them air dry.
To store citrus longer you can get a 5 gallon bucket and fill it with clean sand. Bury the clean citrus in the sand and lightly pack it down.
The sand fills the pores of the citrus and it takes longer to go bad.
- Lynn from LA, USA
If you find that eggplant dishes often taste bitter, try this trick.
If making moussaka or eggplant parmesan, cut the eggplant into slices for use. Sprinkle salt over the eggplant slices on both sides and let sit for about 10 minutes. The salt will make them sweat their bitter liquid out. Wipe this off with a (paper) towel and your eggplant dish will not have that bitter flavour!
-Florin, Canada
Adding salt to chickpeas makes them cook faster. Don’t forget to soak dry chickpeas overnight before cooking. Note that if salt is added to beans they will not cook.
- Stella Rodrigues, UK
I introduced a little corner of my kitchen occupied by oral knowledge on my twitter long time ago. I just realized that I did not give answer for it. So here it is:
In this picture, there are three knowledge:
1. To keep lettuce fresh longer outside the fridge, keep their roots in the water.
My lettuce was directly from the garden. So it was with roots. I did not try this method with the ones without roots but my German friend says it works well! Fresh veggies’ seasons are just here, what about keeping your lettuce beautifully on your table or kitchen? :-)
2. To clean the grease on the pan, spread dry flour directly without water.
Flour will absorb the grease, so you don’t need to clean it with soap at all after it! It looks like a magic! Concerning flour is also food, I am researching other ways for the same effect. For example, one girl recalled that her dad used to clean the greasy pen with soil/sand before cleaning at the camping place! Do you know any other know-how? Let me know! oh, let’s share!!
3. To clean the burnt grill, scrub it with aluminum foil.
I keep aluminum foil after I use it because it is a very strong tool to clean burnt grill. Just try it after the barbeque this summer, you will definitely start to keep aluminum foil as well. :D
Hi I expect you all know that potatoes can be bad for you if you try to eat them uncooked, but also that light can turn them green and green potato is bad for you too!
- Barbara Robson, UK
My father used to harvest our potatoes before the frost, clean off the dirt by hand and sort them at the same time to make sure they were perfect for keeping (no bug holes or rot). Usually he would put them in a sack and cover them, but at other times he would bury them in a funny little brick house he had built to keep sand clean and dry. The “roof ” was a slanting weather proof lid, which we had to lift when we sorted through the sand for potatoes. We thought this was a great game, but sometimes being kids we would play a bit too wildly and then would have to tidy up.
I always remember what fun it was to help in that way and how good the potatoes tasted when we roasted them under the fire grate. We were always hungry in those days and there was nothing left to waste!
- Barbara Robson, UK
Gli sgami della nonna (Grandma’s trick)
Italian grandma tells her tips for the house!
So nice to see sharing know-hows from Grannies!! Let’s share it!!
Viva Nonna! ;-)
A very interesting lecture about biodiversity by Jim Richardson at Long now foundation seminar.
” We have to eat to save them - Jim Richardson”
We completely agree with it! Check out our new mobile exhibition “save food from supermarket” as well!
To prevent brown sugar from hardening, store it with an apple cut in half.
- Stephanie Wright, Canada
If you cut an avocado in half and want to save for later, put a little lemon juice on it. This will keep it from browning for several days.
- Reid, Brooklyn
