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Kitchen tips
Kitchen is the most important part of our household. To make it more apt as per your taste and health requirements, the kitchen tips are indispensable. Here are some general, cleaning and decorating tips that will definitely make your kitchen adorable.
General Kitchen Tips
- Always use a wooden chopping board for chopping food. It will help to extend the life of your knives.
- To remove the skin of almonds easily, make them soak in the warm water for about 10-15 minutes.
- Always put the cleaning supplies or dangerous materials on the bottom shelf to protect against the dangerous material that may leak out and contaminate your food.
- In case you have a burn while working in the kitchen, the best way to deal with it is to apply some ointment or petroleum jelly. If you do not have anything of the above, you can use a ripe and smashed banana.
Cleaning Tips
Kitchen is full of activities and thus has great scope of getting dirty. It calls for day to day cleaning. It is the kitchen wooden board that gives your kitchen a good look. But since wood is porous by nature and soaks up bacteria and odors. Thus, it becomes very important to regularly clean the wooden board. Try the following tips to clean your kitchen.
- Mild soaps, such as, liquid detergent mixed well with water is the best way for cleaning the butcher block.
- You can also bring in use the solution of bleach and water to prevent the influence of bacteria. It works superb when you keep the solution in a spray bottle. after each use, just spray and wipe the board.
- Another great cleaning solution that you can make is a ¼ cup of baking soda and ½ cup of vinegar with one gallon of hot water. It will not only deodorize but also clean the grease, buildup and grime.
- Shake some salt on the marks and scrub the wood with a cut open half of lemon. You can let the wood like this overnight and rinse with water later. To deal with dark stains, make a solution of hydrogen peroxide and water and sponge it.
Decorating Tips
Make your kitchen bright with live colors and mirrors that should capture the sunlight and reflect it all over. To have the utmost light distribution, put the mirror across from a window or a wall that nooks against the window wall.
Make some seasonal changes in your kitchen, like moving the kitchen furniture, optimizing some space and having some open and more airy feel. Have the curtains open and have some sun shine in.
Have a look in the good home websites, magazines, television, books to have a look and feel of the designs and accessories. You can then take creative ideas from there and have your kitchen decorated in the way that you admire it most.