Handy tips with salt

Here are some simple but helpful ways to make most of the humble table salt:


• Dropped an egg! No worry! Sprinkle salt on the dropped egg and let the egg stay for 15 minutes. It is easier to clean the egg after this.
• Sprinkling salt in ovens where food has split over, helps clean the spill faster. Moreover salt absorbs the burnt smell.
• Add half a fistful of salt and ½ cup vinegar to a bucket of water. Soak coloured clothes in the mix. The garment won't bleed and colours will get fastened.
• Salt can be effectively used to clean glass tea and coffee pots. Add a fistful of salt to the pot, drop in some ice cubes, swivel the mix and hey presto! The pot will come out sparkling clean! Ditto for china that sites ugly tea stains. Rub these with salt.
• Artificial flowers come out cleaner when dunked in bag of salt. The dirt will get transferred on the salt.
• Potatoes and apples won't turn brown when kept in a bowl of cold salty water.
• Salt and bleach mix is ideal for cleaning a chopping board. Coat chopping board with this mix and scrub off with a stiff brush. Rinse in warm, running water.
• To keep your toothbrush bacteria free, soak it in hot salt water just once a week.
• Ink stains? Just apply some salt to the ink stained area and then wipe off with a damp cloth.
• When you are making ‘mooli’ or radish stuffed Parathas, first fry grated radish and add salt. This ensures that the radish will not lose water and Parathas will be easier to roll out.
• Add a pinch of salt to the water while mopping the floor, to keep away those flies.
• To clean stainless steel taps you can scrub it with tamarind and salt to give it a good shine.
• To keep your curd- rice from turning sour in the summer, add fresh curd to the cooked rice along with salt. Cook in a pressure cooker for one whistle and add seasoning. It will not turn sour for two days even without seasoning.