<p>To avoid or reduce the chance of the milk sticking to it bottom Moisten the base of a vessel with water before boiling milk.</p>
<p>Adding a half of teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate to milk while boiling it prevents milk from spoiling even if you do not put in the fridge.</p>
<p>A wooden spoon on top of the vessel prevent's milk from spilling. It prevent's the milk from spilling over and also indicates when it reaches the boiling point.</p>
<p>Making soft Chapatis usually does not take that much time. However, if you are not perfect at kneading a soft dough, here's a trick. Add some milk while you Knead the dough to make it soft and to keep it fresh for long.</p>
<p>Consumption of oil used while cooking potatoes is a major reason for increase in weight. To avoid it Simply boil the potatoes before you fry them. Boiling potatoes will ensure they cook faster and consume less oil.</p>
<p>Peeling potatoes can be a hard task but if you boil them first it will moisten their skin and will make them easy to peel.</p>
<p>To sharpen the blades of timemixer or grinder and make it work for a longer period Grind some common salt in it. This will make sure their blades are sharp and they work for a longer period of time.</p>
<p>By mistake If you have added too much salt in your food don't worry just add a few spoons of milk to the preparation and this will neutralise the taste of dish.</p>
<p>If you have added to much of water to your dish like in a dal or even rice, just add some potato, potatoes absorb's all the excess water.</p>
<p>If you love cooking mutton but not able to soften it easily just add some mashed raw papaya into the marinade to soften mutton.</p>
<p>If you just add a few drops of lemon to the bindi (Ocra) preparation it will not stick together. The same applies true for rice.</p>
<p>It is big struggle to caramelise onions because their is a very thin layer between burning it or caramelising onions. The trick to perfectly caramelise onions is to add a pinch of baking soda beause this fastens the process and make them perfectly brown in no time.</p>
<p>If potatoes and onions are stored together Potatoes will rot very soon. Make sure you have separate storage jars to store each of them.</p>
<p>To keep paneer cottage cheese fresh for days, place it in a blotting paper before you refrigerate them. Boiling Paneer keeps it spongy and soft.</p>
<p>keep a small paper packet of boric powder or mint leaves in the container as it prevents insects in rice storage.</p>
<p>keep 2 or 3 peices of cloves in the container of Sugar as it prevents ants from sticking to the jar or even getting attracted to the sugary smell.</p>
<p>Put overriped tomatoes in a cold water and add some salt to the container. This trick makes them fresh the next morning.</p>