KITCHEN TIPS - GET RID OF ANTS

Here at this webpage, we have provided some free cooking and Kicthen tips there are some beautiful tips which have reduce the cost for some treatment and also prevent our kicthen from ants.

Some Kitchen and Cooking Tips:

	Almonds:Soak Almonds in hot water for 15 minutes, its skin will be easily removed.
	Ants:If ants have entered in your sugar container, put 3-4 cloves and ants will go away.
	Biscuits:To keep biscuits fresh for a longer time, put a blotting paper at the bottom of the container.
	Butter: Use butter to its minimum, if it is essential to use, use a butter containing low saturated fat or with plant stanols (which avoid absorption of cholesterol by our body) or similar substitutes.
	Banana: To have a cooling effect over a burn on your body, apply mashed banana.
	Apples: Apple pieces get brown in colour when kept in open for a long time, pour lemon juice on the cut surface to keep those fresh for a longer period.
	Bee and Scorpion Sting Relief: Apply a mixture of 1 pinch of chewing tobacco and 1 drop of water. Mix and apply directly and immediately to the sting; cover with band-aid to hold in place. Pain will go away in just a few short minutes
	Bitter Gourd (Karela): To lessen the bitterness of Bitter Gourd, slit Karelas at the middle and apply a mixture of salt, wheat flour and curd all round. Cook it after 30 minutes.
	Celery: Wrapping celery in Aluminum foil and placing them in refrigerator will keep celery afresh for longer time.
	Burnt Food: To clean up a burnt vessel, place 1 chopped onion and pour boiling water in it for 5 minutes. It will be easy to clean.
	Chilly Powder: If you keep a small piece of hing (asafetida) in the same container having chilly powder, it will help you to store it for a longer period.
	Chopping: To chop the vegetables, always use a wooden board. Knife will not be blunt. Also, if you use a plastic board, small plastic pieces may go with the vegetables.
	Coriander/Mint: If fresh coriander and mint leaves are not available; you can use dried ones in coarse powder form in vegetable curry or chutney. To keep them fresh for a longer time, wrap them in a muslin cloth and keep in a fridge.
	Cockroaches: Put some boric powder in kitchen in corners and other places. Cockroaches will leave your house.
	Coconut: To remove the hust of a coconut, immerse it in water for 1/2 an hour.
	Dry Fruits: Dry fruits can be easily chopped by placing them in fridge for 30 minutes before cutting. Also, dip the knife in hot water and then cut.
	Rolling Pin: To remove the sticky dough from the rolling pin, place it in freezer for a few minutes.
	Fresh Egg: To check whether egg is fresh or not, put it in a pan containing cool salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh; if it rises to the surface, it is certainly quite old.

How To Get Rid Of Ants

Protect Your House From Ants

Ants are known to be very hard workers, who once they find a source of food, are very persistent in making their way towards it. And if this source happens to be within your house or kitchen, you could find yourself baffled by the long lines of ants that have made your home a marching haven.

So, what do you do to get rid of them? A pesticide is fine, and there are many sprays available on supermarket shelves, each one of which promises better results than the one before. But wait and think before you reach for any of them. Pesticides by their very nature are poisonous substances and definitely to be avoided in a home full of children and pets or anywhere near food. You may inadvertently poison yourself.

Natural ways to rid yourself of ants

The first thing you have to do is find out the place from where these ants are entering your home. You may find an opening or aperture through which the pesky creatures have easy access to your home. Go back along the trail of ants that have come into your home and surely you will find an unnoticed hole or opening through which these creatures are making their way. See if you can block this access by caulking it and closing it permanently or temporarily put some petroleum jelly around this access and deter the ants from coming in. This will give you time to think of a permanent way of blocking the access if caulking it is beyond your DIY skills.

If the ants are finding their way into your home through doors, windows and other openings and small places below them, a simple solution is to sprinkle baby powder or coffee granules around these areas. Ants will not cross this barrier. Salt can also work as an effective barrier as will a spray of vinegar.

Another solution is to use Cream of Wheat as bait. The ants will first take this cereal and carry it back to their nest. On eating this ants find this Cream of Wheat difficult on their digestion and literally explode. To my mind, even if they are just ants, the solution is a bit diabolical.

Green sage in all your cabinets can deter ants from entering them, and the same trick can be used to keep the ants out of the flour and sugar containers which are always their first targets.

Keeping away the ants

To keep the ants away from your house, you need to mind some of your day to day activities:

• Ants need food and water to survive. So if you want to keep them off your property see that such sources for their food and water are not easily available to them.

• Clean up after all meals and take the trash out of the house or see that it is kept in airtight containers that allow no ingress to the ants.

• Leaving crumbs on a table is an invitation to ants. So, clean up after you have finished eating.

• Keep trash bins or recycling bins as far away from the house as possible.

• If you do need to keep food on kitchen counters, see that the items are properly wrapped.

• Refrigerate perishable food and see that the door seals on your refrigerator do not allow any ants to get into it.

• See that there are no pools of standing water any where around the house. Areas around potted plants are always neglected and may have such pools created by your efforts at watering your plants.

So try out this natural ways of tackling those pesky creatures. They will work as well as the pesticides and sprays and probably save you a load of money and also the worry of keeping your loved pets or children away from the harmful effects of these modern day solutions. And take this few easy steps to keep away the ants.

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