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Cool rice fast on a thali
Spread hot rice thin on a steel thali before packing a tiffin. It cools in minutes instead of steaming inside the box, which is what makes packed rice smell off by lunch.
Jugaads for “spoil”
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Bulk is only cheap if you finish it
The five-kilo pack is cheaper per kilo and more expensive per household if half spoils. Buy grains and pulses in bulk, buy anything with oil in it small, because that is what goes rancid.
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Ice tray for leftover ginger-garlic paste
Freeze the paste in an ice tray, then knock the cubes into a bag. One cube is roughly one meal, it keeps for months, and you stop throwing out a spoiled jar every fortnight.
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Salt on a fresh oil stain
Cover a fresh oil spill on the kitchen platform with a thick layer of salt and leave it ten minutes. The salt drinks the oil and sweeps off dry, instead of you smearing it around with a wet cloth.
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