11 life hacking using paper towels

Paper towels - a wonderful invention. Thanks to them, the kitchen everything can shine, and it does not have to constantly wash. Paper towels dried food fried so that they crackle, not crawl from the oil. But this humble product can be used not only for its intended purpose. How else - learn from this post.

1. Wrap the bottle with vegetable oil to drops did not fall on the table

If you use a lot of oil when cooking, you probably know that the oil droplets are constantly strive to escape from the bottle and dirty table. Fat bottle difficult to keep in hand, and oil circles - scrub the surface.

Help comes great invention - a paper towel. Fold one towel, wrap it around the bottle with oil and fix an elastic band. It will collect all the oil droplets.

can be used instead of paper towels and cheaper counterparts: any other paper, cut gum from old socks or wristbands that you still gathered to throw out.

2. Soften brown sugar with a wet towel

Cane brown sugar over time it becomes hard as stone. Old life hacking - put a piece of bread or an apple in a container with the sugar for a few days, to the moisture contained in the product passed on to pieces of sugar.

But if you do not want to wait, you can cover the container with a damp paper towel with sugar and send it for 20-30 seconds in the microwave. Sugar becomes softer.

3. Use a damp paper towel when cooking in a microwave oven

When you reheat food or cook vegetables in the microwave, wet paper towel will help to get a perfect result.

Microwave effect on the water molecules contained in food, and thus preparing a meal. The water turns to steam, and if it happens too fast or the food is cooked for a long time, then microwaved foods are beginning to resemble the consistency of rubber.

To avoid this, place the container with the food moist paper towel or wrap them preparing vegetables. Excellent dinner is guaranteed.

4. Dry vegetables for salad

These cooks leaves and vegetables for salad lay in special drying, so that the water after washing does not fall into the dish. Separate kitchen appliance - this is probably too much. Especially that dry leaves and vegetables, you can use a paper towel.

Take a colander, put to paper towel and place the vegetables. They can be rotated and shake to evenly dry.

5. Cook steaks with paper towels

Most of the recipes in cookbooks contain the item "Dry Steak". This must be done before you send the meat to the pan, so that eventually turned out crispy fried crust (due Maillard reaction).

Paper towel - the perfect tool that can get wet steaks and to remove any excess moisture.

6. Wrap the lettuce leaves in a dry towel

What could be worse than looking like a recently bought salad turned yellow and wilted, or worse, blackened and rotted before it had time to eat? You do not have to wrestle with how to preserve fresh leaves with paper towels.

Wrap the lettuce in a dry paper towel and fold in the package. The towel will absorb excess moisture, because of which the leaves deteriorate prematurely.

7. Keep greens in a damp towel

Grass, unlike the salad, do not rot and too fast drying. And if greens can change the taste of food in the right direction, then dried twigs of this effect is not given.

If you do not know exactly when to use mint, dill or thyme sprigs wrap in damp paper towel and leave in the refrigerator. So you will extend the shelf life of green for a few days. If you briefly dip the greens in a bowl with water before being packed, too, can count on a long product freshness.

8. No filter? No problem - there is a towel

Sieve clogged, the filters for the coffee machine ran out? Go for help to the box with paper towels. They will help to make coffee in a porcelain dish or filter herbal infusion. All excess will remain on the towel and not get into the food and drinks.

9. Wrap the bacon to paper towels

slices bacon easy to cook in the microwave. But to wash the dishes and bake fat is very difficult. Exit - to put the bacon between towels. You will have a tasty snack and a clean microwave.

10. Make wipes for removing makeup

Cut the roll of towels in half. Prepare the impregnation solution: two cups of purified water and thermal or two tablespoons oil (e.g. coconut). You can add a bit of your favorite makeup remover and a few drops of tea tree oil to swipe longer stored. Heat the solution in a microwave oven to mix, and to obtain a uniform consistency. Put the trimmed half a roll in a plastic container and pour the solution. When wipes soaked, remove the cardboard sleeve and use a towel before going to bed to clean the skin from cosmetics.

11. Use a cardboard sleeve

These tips are not exactly for paper towels. But when the roll is over, it remains a cardboard sleeve, which can also be used in many ways.

• Secure the cardboard tube on the bottom of the clothes hangers. If you hang pants on a hanger round, they will not be horizontal folds.
• The cardboard cylinders can be kept candles and extra packages.
• Make the Case for the knife, closing one of the openings of the tube with tape. Great for picnicking.
• If you invest in a cardboard cylinders boots, after storage in the shoe will not crease.
• Of the sleeve can be set beginner summer resident. Cut a long tube into four short pieces, set in a box section. Each fill with soil and plant the seeds. When the seeds germinate, they will be easy to transplant.
• Of cardboard cylinders and colored paper make excellent packing for gifts in the form of candy.
• Long wires can be stored and garlands wrapped around a cylinder. And if you miss the wires through the tube, they will not hang around the house.
• Of the sleeve can make a pencil case for pencils.
• Cardboard cylinder - a toy for hamsters and cats.

A few words about the environment

Of course, if you are concerned that because of the paper napkins are cut down too many forests (and rightly so), you can use an ordinary cotton fabric, such as an old T-shirt. But keep in mind that when working with meat is better to use disposable towels.

And in order to use less paper, when you just wipe your hands, first good shake off drops, and then fold one towel four times. So it becomes more dense and will better absorb water, and you have enough of one piece.

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