Questions tagged [kitchen]
Hacks related to objects and activities in the kitchen, including cleaning and maintenance. Note that cooking is off-topic.
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How can I remove round shaped white colour on worktop in kitchen due to hotness of pan?
I placed a hot pan on a worktop. Due to this white circle shape has come on worktop.
How can I remove it? The original colour of the worktop is black.
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How to clean saucepan after boiling oats in milk?
Everytime I make oats in milk boiled in saucepan, it leave a dired scum sort on the wall and base of saucpan which is very hard to get it off with sponge. What methods can I use to make it easy for it ...
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Help with venting an instant pot
We have a primary range hood over the stove.
We have a different counter on which we use an instant pot frequently. It vents steam and odor. Are there general recommendations on how to vent this? ...
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Can I reuse single-use pepper or salt mills?
I bought a single-use glass pepper mill from the supper market. It's almost empty, and I want to refill it, but I'm unable to open it. It feels like there is some wriggle room, but it's not the ...
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How to avoid ice buildup in freezer?
The title says it all. The question is not how to get rid of ice in the freezer, but how to avoid ice building up in the first place.
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How do I create a reminder for an oven warmer?
I have a gas powered warmer below my oven. You only see the switch for it when you open the warmer and it located below the oven near the floor, so it is very innocuous. Whenever I use it I forget ...
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How can I cut sheet cake into regular hexagonal pieces?
Here is sheet cake cut into square pieces:
I would like to cut such a cake into hexagonal pieces:
How can I do this without using a hexagonal cutter? I imagine there must be some geometry hack to ...
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I spilled cooking oil on my kitchen floor, now my floor squeeks
I spilled used cooking oil in my kitchen pantry floor. I used the flour method to successfully clean it up, but now the floor on the other side of the wall has a pretty loud creak when walking on it. ...
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What is a hack to clean kitchen sink drain on an RV?
On an RV kitchen sink drain you cannot use Draino per previous owner, I was looking for a hack to clean the drain or an alternative to Draino. Thank you.
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What's the best way to separate a crunchy snack from crumbs
Another half-empty bag of crisps and crumbs…
I enjoy crunchy snacks; but, when I open the plastic pillow packets much of the contents has settled leaving half of the bag empty. It's filled with a gas, ...
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Has anyone tried using some custom drill bit for can openers? [closed]
Just wondering if anyone has come up with a drill bit attachment that could operate handle for can opener? Yes, I'm lazy! But on those special occasions when I have to open a bunch of veggies and ...
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Salt Shaker Humidity is a big problem in the Caribbean- Any mechanism besides the rice?
Salt shaker clogging is a big problem in the Caribbean- A older friend said his mom had these little Japanese porous tiles she add to her shakers. They worked great and could be re-used over and over ...
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How can I improvise a refrigerator drawer handle?
We can't afford a new fridge. See below, half of the bin handle tore off. Manufacturer doesn't sell replacement bins for our 8 year old fridge. They said we must replace whole bin, not just the ...
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How can I close rice bag?
Consider the following rice bag
I want to close the rice bag mouth so that insects and other unnecessary materials will not fall into the rice.
I have plenty of rice bags like this in my home. I keep ...
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How to store small leaves like basil and mint for around 5 days to one week?
Normally, I find it really hard to store the mint and basil (I normally put them into my water pot to get the flavor).
My solution so far is to store them at the lowest part of my fridge but they got ...
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