Not Only Packing Food, Aluminum Foil Can Be Used For These 7 Life Hacks

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Aluminum foils are tools in kitchens that have many uses. Aluminum foils are commonly used to wrap foods to coat their windows. However, there are various benefits of aluminum foils in addition to wrapping food. There are many creative ways of using foils for various needs, ranging from cleaning to storing food.

Quoted from How Stuff Works, Thursday, September 5, here are some benefits of aluminum foils in the kitchen apart from wrapping food.

If the pot is full of attached food crusts, but you don't have a pan brush. All you need to do is take enough aluminum foil to be squeezed into a ball the size of a fist, then rub with soap and water, as usual. Don't do this to all kinds of copper cooking utensils, or that are coated with anti-stick substances. This method is best used in pots and aluminum pans, steel, or glass.

Poles of your silver utensils by coating plastic containers with aluminum foils. Make sure the sides turn up facing up. Then, put the silver utensils into the container. Add a quarter-cup (60 milliliters) soda washers (this is not the same as cake soda, FYI), as well as 1 gallon (3.79 liters) of boiling water into the container. The mixed axle, then let the silver utensils be submerged for at least 10 to 15 minutes. Then, the stains will immediately stick from silver utensils to aluminum foils!

Or, try this method: Fill a container or burnt loyang with aluminum foil, then fill it with cold water. Add a quarter cup (60 milliliters) soda cake and 2 tablespoons of salt kosher into the water and stir it. Put your silver utensils carefully in the solution, don't touch or hit the side of the container. You will see bubbles form. Let it be submerged for a few minutes. Make sure to rinse it with water, then dry it.

If you like gardening at home and really want to eat your own harvest, prevent a annoying little insect by adding aluminum foil pieces into your mulsa. This will keep insects well as reflect light back on the plant.

If the old scissors are too blunt to use, there is an easy way to repair them using aluminum foils. Sobek a aluminum foil. Fold to four parts. The result will be four layers of aluminum foil. Then, all you have to do is cut aluminum foils repeatedly. By doing this, you will get sharp and shiny scissors.

You can cover the surface of a cupboard and a kitchen drawer with aluminum foils. In addition to protecting the kitchen storage space from annoying spills and spills, aluminum foil reflects light, making it easier to find what you need in the corner of a dark cupboard.

Sometimes ironing is boring. Reduce the time of ironing by placing an aluminum foil under the cover of your iron board. This will reflect the heat effectively and make wrinkles disappear faster.

If you don't have a funnel to pour food ingredients into a small container, just make a funnel with an aluminum foil. You can use aluminum foil paper that is quite thick as a funnel.