Tips: Cleanup and Mess Prevention Tips

• When ever you need to mix tuna for tuna salad, first put all ingredients in a 1 gallon sealable plastic bag, remove excess air, then I just blend ingredients by squeezing the bag. Then snip off 1 corner to squeeze out the amount needed for sandwiches, salads, and etc. This idea can be used with many other foods such as deviled eggs, seafood salad, meatloaf, seasoned ground beef for the grill and so on. This is extra nice to prepare foods on camp-outs, picnics, or carry dish for get-togethers (and a lot easier to transport). Enjoy the food and an EASY clean-up. NeNe from Tennesse ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• The neatest way to fill a pastry bag is to stand it upright in a tall glass (a pint sized beer glass works perfectly), then fold the top edges down over the glass, and fill. Both hands will be free. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To give burned food the brush off, let a mixture of half water and half vinegar soak in the pan overnight. The burned food comes off easily the next day with a light scouring. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To clean foods that have burnt on a barbecue grill, enclose them in a large plastic garbage bag. Mix 1 cup baking soda with 1/2 cup ammonia, pour over the grills, close the bag and let sit overnight. The burnt on pieces will have loosened making the grills easy to clean. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Here's a tip we saw on a recent episode of Oprah: If you spill red wine on a carpet, pour white wine right over it. The white will neutralize the red wine. Follow with light soap and water and blot with a thick towel. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To devein shrimp, instead of an icepick, use a small Philips-head screwdriver with a short handle -- it works quite well ! Vida Mann,Monroeville, Ohio ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Wwhen a recipe calls for spraying an oil on the pan, to place it inside of the dishwasher and spray. Any excess will run into the dishwasher not on the counters. Stephanie Beuning, Post Falls, ID ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Make up two or three recipes of the dry ingredients for cakes, cookies, breads, etc. then labels them, and tucks in a copy of the recipe, and put them in the cupboard. This way you're only dealing with flour etc. that is messy to clean up once. When you're in a hurry its great to have everything ready. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To clean stovetop, glass, or percolator coffeepots, fill with cold water, add a little baking soda, boil for a minute or so, and rinse clean. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Use rubbing alcohol to take the sticky stuff off of cabinets and doors. It also works very well to take the tags off place mats. The DeWald's, Reno, NV ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

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