WHAT ARE THE KITCHEN/HOME REMEDIES YOU KNOW LET’S TEACH ONE ANOTHER; MINE ARE

1. If your stew got sour add baking powder to it and cook/warm it, it will taste sweeter than
before.

2. Use baking soda and paste to brush your teeth for whiter teeth.

3. For menstrual pain grate ginger in the warm water and drink early in the morning.

4. Put slices of bread on your burnt beans or rice. You won’t perceive the burnt smell.

5. Open a sachet of baking soda in a corner of your fridge to get rid of smell.

6. To banish ants from the kitchen, find out where they are coming from cover the place with
petroleum Jelly (Vaseline). The ants won’t pass through it.

7. If you cook over peppered stew just add carrots or veggies; though some people use sugar.

8. If you are not sure how fresh your eggs are place them in a four inches water; eggs that stay
at the bottom are fresh, if only one end of the egg tips out the egg is less fresh and should be
use soon, if the egg floats it has passed the fresh stage.

9. When boiling egg, add a pinch of salt to keep the shell from cracking.

10. If you have a smelling rug; just press lemon and add bicarbonate to it then use it to clean the
rug.

11. Apply close up toothpaste on a towel to clean your pressing iron. The iron should be hot
while doing it.

12. Remedy for uncommon cold in children; grate ginger and mix with warm water and honey;
don’t boil ginger because it will lose its nutrients, it works like magic.

13. Use bicarbonate to open your sink when it block.

14. For virginal infection and removal of all yamayama from the body, get ginger, garlic, clovers
and turmeric, slice all into a bottle add water and leave to ferment for two days then start
taking it.

15. Add pitch of salt to your milk (liquid fresh milk) and refrigerate, it will prevent from sour.

16. When you have excess salt in your soup, just get small sized Irish potatoes, peel it and drop
it inside your soup, it will soak excess salt.

17. Chew gum while cutting onions to avoid watery eyes.

18. Remedy for sour throat; activated charcoal works.

19. For body odour; wash armpit with lime for seven days.

20. A child or baby who fainted or convulsing; rub onions or cut onions and put into his or her
eyes, the baby will sneeze and come back to life.

21. Bay leaves works for cockroaches; just spread round your kitchen or even burn it.

22. Get garlic and salt; pound the garlic and mix it with salt, sprinkle it round the four corners
room, it scares wall gecko.

23. To preserve your crayfish for a longer period, put charcoal in an airtight container together
with the crayfish; it can stay up to one year.

24. Put potash (akawu) in your oil when frying fish, it makes the fish come out whole without
any crumbs.

25. To reuse vegetable oil without tasting what was fried previously, fry a chunk of ginger in it, it
will taste as good as new.

26. Use ehuru for your spice when cooking your stew.

27. Put clean charcoal on your beans paste if you are not ready to use it.

28. Add little vegetable oil on your rice and pasta when boiling to avoid spill over.

29. When cooking cocoyam add salt it will make cocoyam be done none will be half done

30. To remove eczema, grind some plain oatmeal then mix with water and apply the paste to
your skin and leave it on for 15 mins before washing.