Helpful Household Hint

[flamingyouth]

Clothes in your dryer will dry much faster if you actually turn the machine on.

I'm trying so hard to hold it together, with varing degrees of success, as you all can see. :D

[Heddi]

1. Helpful Hint #2

The oven pre-heats with maximum efficiency when the oven is turned on as well.

Are we both having the same kind of day?????? :)

[flamingyouth]

2. Yes, I suspect so

LOL :hi:

[agates]

17. Actually the oven preheats fastest

When you've left something in there that doesn't belong in there, like a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, or a bag of cookies, or somthing...

[Fenris]

3. Helpful Hint #3: Cola does not make a good upholstery cleaner.

Learn these things the hard way.:D

[pagerbear]

5. Neither does iced coffee

[testing123]

4. Vinegar & Baking Soda

I sprinkle the baking soda down and pour white vinegar on and it bubbles out the dirt from anything.

Stinks real bad but it works wonders. If it can get a ring out of the bathtub at my house then it works.

[dweller]

6. Helpful Hint #4. The vacumn realllly sucks

if you turn it on.

oh, and change the bag when it's full too.
dp

[dolo amber]

7. An iron skillet

that has been on the stovetop for close to half an hour will be warm to the touch. Exceedingly. x(

:D

[Fenris]

9. Corollary to that, if you have a ceramic stovetop...

Make sure the little red "DON'T FUCKING TOUCH THIS YOU GODDAMN MORON, IT'S FUCKING HOT!" light is off before you set your hand down.

:7

[camby]

10. Cleaning tip for cast iron skillet

Don't use saniflush

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. Another Helpful Hint

If you don't wear any clothes, then you never have to use the damn dryer!

:D

[LearnedHand]

11. Pinto beans, cooked on ultra-high...

for several hours will, it turns out, have a meltdown that makes Chernobyl look like candles on a birthday cake. :(

[flamingyouth]

12. Happened to me once with black beans

They actually became dehydrated. It was very strange. :(

[LearnedHand]

13. No, I mean a REAL meltdown

They melted the bottom out of a cast-aluminum dutch oven.

[flamingyouth]

14. Wow

That would have actually liked to see (but not clean up after) :hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. If you put frozen veggies away in the cereal cupboard

they will start to smell rotten after a couple of weeks.

No, I'm not getting senile. I did this at the age of 23.

[camby]

16. How long does it take fresh veggies

to shrivel and grow fur in the vegetable "crisper" of your fridge?

[NightTrain]

18. Another helpful hint.

When you put a frozen pizza in the oven, it's a good idea to first remove the cardboard circle on the bottom of the pizza! :eyes: