Paper towel is a wonderful invention. Thanks to them in the kitchen, everything can glitter, and at the same time you will not have to be erased. Paper towels dried dishes in deep fryer so that they are crunchy, and not sprawling from oil. But this modest product can be used not only for direct purpose. And how else - find out from this post.
1. Wrap a bottle with vegetable oil so that the drops do not fall on the table
If you use a lot of vegetable oil when cook, then you probably know that oil drops are constantly lying to escape from the bottle and stain the table. A fatty bottle is difficult to keep in the hands, and oil circles - drop from surfaces.
A great invention comes to the rescue - paper towel. Fold one towel, wrap it around a bottle with butter and secure the rubber band. It will collect all the oil drops.
Instead of a paper towel, you can use cheaper analogues: any other paper, cropped rubber bands from socks or old swelling, which you still gathered to throw out.
2. Soften the cane sugar with a wet towel
Cane brown sugar over time becomes hard as stone. Old Lifehak - put a piece of apple or bread into a container with sugar for a couple of days, so that the moisture contained in the groceries was passed on to sugar slices.
But if you don't want to wait, you can cover the tank with sugar wet paper towel and send to the microwave for 20-30 seconds. Sugar will be softer.
3. Use a wet paper towel when cooking in the microwave
When you warm up the food or cook vegetables in the microwave, a wet paper towel will help get an excellent result.
The microwave affects the water molecules contained in food, and thus prepares food. The water turns into pairs, and if it happens too fast or food is preparing for a long time, then the products from the microwave begin to remind rubber on the consistency.
So that this does not happen, put a wet paper towel into the container with food or wrap to them preparing vegetables. Great lunch is guaranteed.
4. Dry vegetables for salad
Real cookies leaves and vegetables for salad are laying in special dryers so that the water after washing does not fall into the dish. Separate kitchen appliance is, perhaps too. Especially what can dry the leaves and vegetables with a paper towel.
Take a colander, put a paper towel there and lay out vegetables. They can be rotated and shake to dry evenly.
5. Prepare steaks with paper towels
Most recipes in culinary books contain the point "Seeing Steak". It must be done before sending meat into a frying pan so that the crispy fried crust is turned out (thanks to Mayyar's reaction).
Paper towel is an ideal tool that can get into the steaks and remove all extra moisture.
6. Wrap lettuce leaves in a dry towel
What could be worse than looking like a recently purchased salad yellowers and a sick or, worse, blaked and rotted before he had time to eat him? With a paper towel, you will not have to break your head like saving leaves fresh.
Wrap the salad into a dry paper towel and fold into the package. The towel will absorb excess moisture, because of which the leaves are spoiled before the term.
7. Keep the greens in a wet towel
Herbs, in contrast to salad, do not rot, but dried too quickly. And if fresh greens can change the taste of dishes in the desired side, then the dried twigs of such an effect do not give.
If you do not know exactly when you use mint, dill or thyme, wrap over a wet paper towel and leave in the refrigerator. So you will extend the shelf life of the greenery for several days. If you briefly lower the greens in a bowl with water before packaged, you can also count on a long freshness of the product.
8. No filter? No problem - there is a towel
Sito clogged, filters for coffee makers ended? We go for help to the box with paper towels. They will help brew coffee in a porcelain cup or filtering herbal infusion. All too much will remain on the towel and will not get into the food and drinks.
9. Wut Bacon in Paper Towels
Bacon slices are comfortable to cook in the microwave. But wash off the dishes and the oven from fat is very difficult. Exit - put bacon between towels. You will have a delicious snack and clean microwave.
10. Make Makeup Removal Napkins
Cut the roll with towels in half. Prepare a solution for impregnation: two cups of purified or thermal water and two tablespoons of oil (for example, coconut). You can add a little beloved makeup removal and a few drops of tea tree oil so that the napkins are kept longer. Heat the solution in the microwave to mix and get a homogeneous consistency. Put the cropped half of the roll into the plastic container and pour the solution. When the napkins are impregnated, remove the cardboard sleeve and use towels before bed cleaning with cosmetics.
11. Use a cardboard sleeve
These tips are not quite for paper towels. But when the roll ended, a cardboard sleeve remains, which can also be used in different ways.
- Secure the cardboard tube on the bottom of the hanger for clothes. If you hang trousers on such a round hanger, they will not be horizontal fold.
- In cardboard cylinders, you can store candles and extra packages.
- Make a knife case by closing one of the holes of the tube with a tape. Excellent option for a picnic trip.
- If you put cardboard cylinders into boots, after storage on the shoes there will be no folds.
- From the sleeve you can make a set of novice dachank. Cut the long tube to four short parts, set the sections in the box. Each fill with soil and plant seeds. When the seeds are good, they will be easily transplanted.
- From cardboard cylinders and colored paper, excellent packaging for candy gifts are obtained.
- Long wires and garlands can be stored by wrapped around the cylinder. And if you skip the wires through the tube, they will not hang out throughout the house.
- From the sleeve you can make pencil pencils.
- Cardboard cylinder - toy for hamsters and cats.
Couple words about ecology
Of course, if you are worried that too many forests are cut down because of paper napkins (and do it correctly), you can use the usual cotton fabric, such as old T-shirts. But note that when working with meat it is better to use disposable towels.
And in order to spend less paper when you simply wipe your hands, you first shake well, and then fold one towel four times. So it will become denser and will better absorb water, and you have enough one thing.
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