Joey Green's Kitchen Magic: 1,882 Quick Cooking Tricks, Cleaning Hints, and Kitchen Remedies Using Your Favorite Brand-Name Products

Joey Green's Kitchen Magic: 1,882 Quick Cooking Tricks, Cleaning Hints, and Kitchen Remedies Using Your Favorite Brand-Name Products Review

From the guru of brand-new uses for brand-name products come ideas and tips for culinary fun, cleaning shortcuts, and kitchen cabinet remedies

Joey Green has fascinated readers for more than a decade with his quirky and innovative tips to make domestic engineering a lot more fun. Now fans will be completely intrigued and entertained by Joey’s kitchen- and pantry-focused ideas, like using Canada Dry Club Soda to buff stainless steel appliances and flexible fabric Band-Aids as labels for frozen foods.

Filled with time- and money-saving ideas, Joey Green’s Kitchen Magic offers clever ways to make household items do double duty, like using ReaLemon for revitalizing wilted asparagus, L’eggs Panty Hose (clean, of course) for removing corn silk, and Oral-B Dental Floss for slicing layer cake. He shares unusual ideas for kitchen troubles, like stirring in Jif Peanut Butter to save burnt gravy and using Efferdent to clean the coffeepot. Joey even tosses in home remedies from the kitchen (soothe a blister with Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk) and simple recipes (try Slow-Cooker Brisket with a Coca-Cola marinade).

Whether it’s a quick fix (Eggo Waffles for hot dog buns, anyone?) or an emergency substitution (Bounty Paper Towel for a coffee filter), there are loads of useful and entertaining tips for making the most of brand-name purchases.

The Green Book of Household Hints: Keeping an Efficient and Ecologically Sound Home

The Green Book of Household Hints: Keeping an Efficient and Ecologically Sound Home Review

More than 1,000 ecologically sound tips for efficient housekeeping

The Green Book of Household Hints is an indispensable guide for today's busy homeowner. In this single, convenient volume are hundreds of useful tips on everything from avocados (unripe) to zippers (stuck). There is advice on:

• Appliance upkeep
• Bottled water
• Draft-proofing
• First aid
• Garbage disposal
• Home computers
• Household repairs
• Internet safety for kids
• Laundry
• Painting and decorating
• Pet care
• Stain removal

Whether it's a simple problem such as a squeaky door or a more complex matter such as household pets, The Green Book of Household Hints focuses on advice that really works. Complete with alphabetically arranged entries and a full index, The Green Book of Household Hints is a practical, time-saving guide that no modern home should be without.

Here are just a few valuable hints:

• Avoid placing an air conditioner where the sun beats down on it.
• Deodorize a dog by rubbing baking soda into its coat, then brushing it off.
• Water conducts electricity. If your basement floods, cautiously venture with rubber boots and shut off the power with a wooden spoon.
• Candles will last longer if you snip the wick close to the top.
• Put cornstarch on greasy carpet spills. After l hour, brush clean.
• Use dental floss to truss a turkey. It holds better than string.
• Use a dehumidifier in your basement. The house will be cooler, drier, and your air-conditioning bills will be lower.
• To lay floor tiles, start at the room's center and work toward the walls.
• Don't clean your computer monitor with glass cleaner while it is "on."
• Dry-clean both parts of a suit at the same time. Color changes will match.
• In a fire, if a door feels hot, don't open it. Escape by a window.