Helpful Household Hint
flamingyouth
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:40 PM
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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
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:41 PM
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The oven pre-heats with maximum efficiency when the oven is turned on as well. Are we both having the same kind of day?????? :)
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:43 PM
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Tue Jun-22-04 11:21 PM
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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...
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:43 PM
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3. Helpful Hint #3: Cola does not make a good upholstery cleaner.
Learn these things the hard way.:D
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:44 PM
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5. Neither does iced coffee
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:43 PM
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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.
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:46 PM
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6. Helpful Hint #4. The vacumn realllly sucks
if you turn it on. oh, and change the bag when it's full too. dp
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:46 PM
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Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 11:06 PM by dolo amber
that has been on the stovetop for close to half an hour will be warm to the touch. Exceedingly. x( :D
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:48 PM
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9. Corollary to that, if you have a ceramic stovetop...
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 10:48 PM by Fenris
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
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:49 PM
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10. Cleaning tip for cast iron skillet
Pale Blue Dot
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:48 PM
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If you don't wear any clothes, then you never have to use the damn dryer! :D
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:50 PM
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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
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:52 PM
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12. Happened to me once with black beans
They actually became dehydrated. It was very strange. :(
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:56 PM
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13. No, I mean a REAL meltdown
They melted the bottom out of a cast-aluminum dutch oven.
flamingyouth
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Tue Jun-22-04 10:59 PM
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That would have actually liked to see (but not clean up after) :hi:
Lydia Leftcoast
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Tue Jun-22-04 11:00 PM
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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.
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Tue Jun-22-04 11:05 PM
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16. How long does it take fresh veggies
to shrivel and grow fur in the vegetable "crisper" of your fridge?
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Tue Jun-22-04 11:24 PM
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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:
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