10 useful tips for Tet

If you are fumbling with the kitchen during the Tet holidays, please consult the experience of the long-time housewives below.

The traditional Tet is approaching, according to Vietnamese customs in the 3 days of Tet, cooking is extremely important to bring warm and delicious reunion meals for the whole family. To make this job easier than ever, you can consult a little experience below to take care of the Tet holiday.

1. Soak dried bamboo shoots quickly

Use rice water to soak bamboo shoot very quickly and when cooking quickly.

Use rice water to soak bamboo shoot very quickly and when cooking quickly. If you want to leave it for a long time, first put the bamboo shoots in a pot of water to boil for 30 minutes then transfer to a small fire to boil for a while and then take it out, cut away the old places, and wash. Use rice water or boiling water to soak slowly. Change water every 2-3 days.

2. Keep fruits fresh for long

You can apply lime to the top of the orange, lemon, and grapefruit stalks to keep the fruit long.

1. Oranges, lemons, grapefruit: Use lime to scoop the stem.
2. Cucumbers: take a bowl of water, mix a little salt, put the left stalk of melons down into the water submerged to 1/3 of the melon, leave in a cool place or cool compartment of the refrigerator.Remember to change the water once a day, making sure your watermelon will be fresh all week.
3. Apples, bananas, mushrooms, pears: will not turn brown, if sprinkled with a little lemon juice.
4. Pink: Soak the fruit in salt water for about 5 minutes (do not soak it for a long time because it changes the substance in the fruit).Use a soft cloth to wash away the knob because this is where bacteria and mold enter the fruit, causing it to rot early.Dry and pack tightly in plastic bags and put in the refrigerator compartment for about 15 ⁰ C.
5. Watermelon: Soak whole fruit in a saline solution of 15% concentration in half an hour.Remove the melon peel and dry it in a polyethyene film bag and store it in a cool place.

3. Leave the green still cakes after boiling

Bring the cake to soak in cold water and squeeze the juice and squeeze it dry again.

After boiling and squeezing, remove the lint and add two new leaf layers. Put it back in the saucepan and cook again, but only boil it over to let the outer leaf turn slightly green. Bring the cake to soak in cold water and squeeze the juice and squeeze it dry again.

4. Quick defrosting

If you don't have a microwave, use cold water to add salt to thaw quickly.

If you need to thaw out urgently, put the food in the microwave. This is great because the high frequency electric field will cause internal friction in the food itself, causing food to heat up, thawing but not breaking the cell. If you don't have a microwave, use cold water to add salt to thaw quickly.

5. How to keep flowers fresh long

In order to keep Tet flowers for a long time, you can add some wine or beer to the flowerpot.

1. Put in a bottle to put some cool tea.
2. Crush the aspirin into half a liter of water, shake it, flower into the country.
3. Add some wine or beer to a flower arrangement.Alcohol in alcohol can sterilize, kill bacteria in flower vases while adding some other nutritional ingredients to make fresh flowers long.

For some types of flowers like peach and apricot, you can use the original burning method.

6. Secret of boiled chicken

For baked purple onion in a boiled chicken pot, onion will make boiled water.

For every liter of water, add 20g of onion, grilled, peeled and 1 teaspoon of salt. Onions will scent chicken broth. Put chicken in cool water so that the chicken skin does not crack. Then boil the chicken in boiling water without bubbling.

To make the chicken yellow, look delicious, avoid boiled and dull skin, when the chicken is just cooked, remove it from the boiling water and immediately soak it into the clean, cold water. Soak until cold chicken must lift off to keep the skin color from darkening. After that, let the meat drain a little, using chicken fat that has been wiped over a layer on the skin, the chicken skin will be shiny yellow and smooth.

7. Remove the fishy smell of fish

After washing the fish, you soak the fish with wine for 10-15 minutes, the fish will be fragrant and all the fishy smell of mud.

Use salt water to wash or use salt rubbed on fish or soaked cleaned fish in cold water mixed with a little vinegar, or mixed in fish with some pepper or bay leaf. Thus, when cooking, fish no longer smell fishy.

Before frying, put fish in a little cow's milk, so that the fish will smell fishy and increase the freshness.

After cleaning freshwater fish, you put the fish in soak with sticky wine for 10-15 minutes, then soaked in bread to fry, the fish will be fragrant and all the fishy smell of mud.

In addition, if you want to hit fish scales fast, clean, first, put the fish in cold water to mix the vinegar in the ratio of one liter of water with two tablespoons of vinegar, about two hours. Thus, when you scab, the scales will fall off easily.

8. Deodorize the refrigerator

Want to remove the odor in the refrigerator, you can slice thin lemon, put in the refrigerator floor, the smell will be sucked out.

1. Wash fresh 500g tangerine, dry and place in many places in the refrigerator.
2. Cut the lemon into thin slices and put it on the floor in the fridge, the smell will be sucked.
3. Take 50g of dried marinated tea into a bucket cloth bag and put it in the refrigerator, the odor will also be removed.
4. Take some vinegar into the glass jar and open it in the refrigerator, the smell will also fly away.

9. Cleaning household appliances

Long-used thermos can also have thermoset residues, reducing the ability to hold heat. To remove the residue, pour 0.5 l of heated vinegar into the thermos, cover the lid for a while and then pour it, rinse, the deposits in the thermos will peel off.

To make dishwashing easier, add a few tablespoons of vinegar to the dishwashing liquid.

To make dishwashing easier, add a few tablespoons of vinegar to the dishwashing liquid. Vinegar will help remove grease faster, while making the dish look brighter and cleaner.

To clean the stains of food in the microwave, spread a little salt on the stain when it just sticks to the oven. Wait until the oven cools, clean the sponge with a warm sponge.

To clean stains on cups, cups or warm water, add a little vinegar and boil. Keep the vinegar lightly boiling for about 10 minutes then rinse with clean water.

10. A few other tips

1. Peeling tomatoes: Cut a few sugar into the shell lightly, then dip the tomato in hot water, it will be easier to peel.
2. The onions are easier to brittle when sprinkled on a bit of sugar before dipping.
3. Want oil, grease is not shot out when frying, stirring, sprinkle some salt to eat into fat or oil.