Posts Tagged ‘Cooking’

How to Disinfect Wooden Kitchen Utensils

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Different wooden kitchen utensils are available in the market today.  Some are useful in cooking or preparing foods; others are better as decorations.  Wooden utensils are preferred by some moms for they look classic in the kitchen.  Some wooden kitchen utensils does not only look good but also makes cooking time faster, easier, enjoyable and productive.  Eating in wooden utensils are also fun but they need more maintenance as compared to its counterpart.

To disinfect a wooden utensil, soak it in a mixture of water and bleach with a ratio of one part of bleach is to twenty parts of water.  Let is soak in it for an hour.  Remove the bleach and water solution off the tub and fill it with the mixture of mild detergent and hot water.  Wash it by hand thoroughly.  There are some solution made specifically to retain the wooden utensils vibrancy.  But you can use a paper towel or a piece of a clean cloth to administer oil to these cooking utensils.  You can maintain your wooden kitchen utensils following these simple steps.

jk adams is a company that sells quality wooden products.  They have plenty of kitchen equipments to choose from.  All of which are  made of wood like their jk adams wine rack, jk adams pot rack, jk adams spice rack and  jk adams cutting board.

Types of Salt

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Trace minerals are important for our cell’s health.  You can take this mineral as a supplement but there is a more easy way to include them on one’s diet without having to convince kids to take them because it is good for them.  And that is by using a different kind of salt. The white salt has been refined during its journey from the sea to our table.  These trace minerals are extracted while adding chemicals and minerals on it and sometimes also iodine.  The product would be mostly sodium and chloride.

The rock salt, on the other hand is the pure evaporated salt water.  What remained in the soil during the evaporation process of the sea water are the trace minerals like magnesium, iron, iodine, calcium and a more.  The seawaters evaporated in large ponds, then the resulting crystals of salt are ground and packaged straight from the ocean to your table.  These natural salt has a coarser texture than the white salt.  But it tastes better than the processed counterpart.  They appear gray for they are not yet been processed.  By being certified as organic, you can be sure that these salts has been collected from clean water and are assessed for the pollutant’s presence in it.

Using a grit bin or a salt bin, the mixture of salt and grit are contained and is spread over the roads where there is snow or ice on it.  It improves the safety on the road during winter

Cooking Must Haves

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Cookwares are important because they are there to impart energy to the ingredients.  Cooking will surely be hard if you don’t know how to deal with cooking equipments and materials that are defective.    It will surely slow down the process of cooking.  Substandard materials may also put your family and home at risk.  Defective appliances could also do harm and injuries.  Therefore, if you want the best when you are cooking and also prioritize you and your family’s safety, you need to find the best equipments for cooking.  You can also do with a cheaper version, it is not at all important that it is expensive to be sure that it is the best equipment for cooking.  Just make sure of the equipment’s quality and make sure that it is new.

Buy electric equipments that are new.  Like a new oven toaster, a blender or a coffee maker perhaps.  This is to ensure your safety when using them.  Go for sales if you want equipments at a cheaper price.  They offer cheap but new stuff for you to use.  Most often, they cut down their price because they are older models or maybe they have lots of stocks that they are having hard time to get rid of.

But before you do your purchase, make sure that you test the item first.  This is a common mistake from customers.  They often failed to check the things they bought before they decided to buy it.  May be because of their schedules so busy, that they don’t bother to check them.

If you have money to spend, look for metal equipments.  Stainless steel equipments are best because they are rust proof and easy to clean unlike plastic materials.  Metal equipments are safer because they are not breakable like glasses.  Glasses are dangerous for kids if it gets broken.