{"id":10827,"date":"2016-04-16T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=10827"},"modified":"2023-09-25T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:41:44","slug":"tips-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tips-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips: Life Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tips are coming soon.&nbsp; For now, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/category\/reference-categories\/tips-tricks-and-tools\/\">BROWSE HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Links to Third Party Sites<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>YouTube &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HouseholdHacker\/videos\">Household Hacker<\/a><\/li>\n<li>YouTube &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FoodLifeHacks\/videos\">Food Life Hacks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>YouTube &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CrazyRussianHacker\/videos\">Crazy Russian Hacker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More Hacks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.hometalk.com\/en\/simple-no-life-easy-changing\">Hometalk.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Chip bag &#8211; no bowl &#8211; bit a hole in the face of the bag and tear a spiral until you have a bowl<\/li>\n<li>No charcoal? chips work here too. Light and use a a substitute for charcoal. Finishes quickly though.<\/li>\n<li>Corn chips are more along the lines of petro chemicals, so if you need something to start a fire on your camping trip, try Doritos.<\/li>\n<li>Sterilize your sponges by putting a damp sponge into the microwave for two minutes<\/li>\n<li>CD Case &#8211; Use for transporting bagels<\/li>\n<li>Website for using leftovers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MyFridgeFood.com\">www.MyFridgeFood.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Repair scratches on a table:<br \/>\n&#8211; Rub with a walnut &#8211; get all of the oils into the crack<br \/>\n&#8211; Rub the oils in with your finger<br \/>\n&#8211; Clean with a soft cloth<\/li>\n<li>Elevator &#8211; Easter Egg &#8211; Close and your floor at the same time &#8211; Straight up<\/li>\n<li>Nervous &#8211; Chew gum &#8211; Body has nothing to fear or wouldn&#8217;t be eating<\/li>\n<li>Use a dab of honey for pimples or a cut. Use toothpaste for a bee sting.<\/li>\n<li>Slow sink ? Use a toilet plunger<\/li>\n<li>When buying a used car, NEVER pay the asking price on a car lot.&nbsp; Have a price in mind, but start at about 20% lower than what they are asking.&nbsp; Find a couple of flaws, or some things you don&#8217;t like about the car.&nbsp; Also, carry cash to the lot, and they will start foaming at the mouth.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t be afraid to walk away &#8211; also don&#8217;t fall prey to their guilt trips.<\/li>\n<li>Coffee Filters &#8211; Use for pinch pots or splatter guard in microwave<\/li>\n<li>Lock screen on phone or iPad &#8211; &#8220;if found, please return to&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>V to keep waxed paper or saran wrap roll in dispenser<\/li>\n<li>Bagel freshener &#8211; wrap in wet paper towel and microwave 15 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Juice bottle for power failure &#8211; See tip and picture this website<\/li>\n<li>Book: How to Rebuild the world from scratch by Lewis Dartnell<\/li>\n<li>Separating eggs: Put all eggs into a bowl, then use a water bottle.&nbsp; Squeeze, touch yolk, release.<\/li>\n<li>Dicing an avocado for guacamole:&nbsp; Halve the avocado and remove the pit.&nbsp; Push into a cross hatch bread rack.<\/li>\n<li>Cutting a Kiwi: Halve the kiwi and scoop out meat with a soup spoon.<\/li>\n<li>Pitting a strawberry: Use a (firm) soda straw.&nbsp; Push through the tip and shove up to the leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Peeling Garlic:&nbsp; Cut the entire head around the &#8220;equator&#8221; and put them both face down.&nbsp; Smack it with your cleaver.<\/li>\n<li>Use a spice grinder to make your own rice flour or bean flour<\/li>\n<li>Cut a hole in the plastic top of your spaghetti storage container to get the right amount every time.<\/li>\n<li>Dip your hot skillet bottom into batter for a perfectly formed crepe<\/li>\n<li>Place a wooden spook across your pot to prevent boil-overs<\/li>\n<li>Use binder clips to help keep cables organized<\/li>\n<li>Fix wobbly furniture by gluing a penny to the bottom of one of the legs<\/li>\n<li>Eat your hamburger upside down.&nbsp; The tops are more durable.<\/li>\n<li>Use a n emptied chap stick tube to hold your emergency money<\/li>\n<li>Use a needle nosed pliers to hold your nail to get it started<\/li>\n<li>To help clean your microwave, boil 1 C water for 5 minutes.&nbsp; The steam loosens everything.<\/li>\n<li>Use a can opener to cut open some ridged plastic packaging<\/li>\n<li>\\<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips are coming soon.&nbsp; For now, you can BROWSE HERE. &nbsp; Links to Third Party Sites YouTube &#8211; Household Hacker YouTube &#8211; Food Life Hacks YouTube &#8211; Crazy Russian Hacker More Hacks Hometalk.com Chip bag &#8211; no bowl &#8211; bit a hole in the face of the bag and tear a spiral until you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tips-hacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips: Life Hacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks-and-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10827"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23137,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}