This document provides several cooking secrets and tips for extending the freshness and life of common ingredients. Some tips include throwing a pinch of salt into milk cartons to extend their expiration date, using potato peels to remove excess salt from soup or fruit stains from fingers, checking eggs' freshness by whether they sink or float in water, storing bread with celery or using pieces of bread to keep other foods moist while baking, and lining drawers with paper towels to absorb moisture and prevent vegetable rotting.

1. C O O K I N G
S E C R E T S
T H A T W I L L M A K E Y O U R
L I F E E A S I E R
B E S T K E P T

2. SALT
Salt has some cool uses in the
kitchen besides flavoring your
dishes.
Milk
Throw a pinch of salt into the next
carton of milk you open. You won’t
taste it and it’ll extend the expiration
date.
Tupperware
You can also put a little bit of salt
into your tupperware. It'll prevent
the plastic from beginning to smell
while it’s being stored.

3. POTATOES
After you boil potatoes (or pasta), save the water and use it to water your
plants. It’s full of nutrients that’ll help the plants grow. Just let it cool first!
A freshly peeled potato can also remove salt from soup that’s too salty.
Drop the potato into the pot and it’ll absorb some of the salt.
A freshly peeled potato can also get rid of fruit stains on your fingers!

4. EGGS
To check the freshness of an egg, just
fill up a glass of water and drop the
egg in.
If it sinks, it’s still fresh.
If one end floats up, then you should
make it soon.
If the entire egg floats, it’s no longer
fresh and you should get rid of it.

5. BREAD
Sometimes it’s hard to use up an entire loaf of bread in time. Seal a stalk
of celery into the bag with your bread when you notice the bread is
beginning to get stale to extend it's freshness. Pieces of bread can also
be used to help out other foods. When you bake, stick a piece of bread
with the food to keep it moist. If you burn rice, you can place a piece of
white bread on top of it for 5 minutes or so to get rid of the burned
flavor.

6. FRUITS & VEGGIES
To keep veggies fresh, line the
vegetable drawers with papers
towels, which will absorb the
excess moisture that causes
veggies to rot.
Wrap lettuce in dry paper towels
to keep it fresh.
Avoid storing citrus fruits and
tomatoes in the fridge, because
it’ll make nutrients drain out.
If you want your herbs to last
longer, store them in a bunch in a
bag in the freezer. They’ll stay
fresher longer and will defrost as
soon as you put them in a hot pan
or pot.