Uses of salt
Mar. 23, 2009 14 Comments Posted under: crazy
SIXTY USES OF SALT:
Although you may not realize it, simple table salt has a great number of uses other than simply seasoning your food. The following list will give you sixty uses of salt, many of which you probably didn’t realize:
1. Soak stained hankies in salt water before washing.
2. Sprinkle salt on your shelves to keep ants away.
3. Soak fish in salt water before descaling; the scales will come off easier.
4. Put a few grains of rice in your salt shaker for easier pouring.
5. Add salt to green salads to prevent wilting.
6. Test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water; fresh eggs sink; bad ones float.
7. Add a little salt to your boiling water when cooking eggs; a cracked egg will stay in its shell this way.
8. A tiny pinch of salt with egg whites makes them beat up fluffier.
9. Soak wrinkled apples in a mildly salted water solution to perk them up.
10. Rub salt on your pancake griddle and your flapjacks won’t stick.
11. Soak toothbrushes in salt water before you first use them; they will last longer.
12. Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.
13. Mix salt with turpentine to whiten you bathtub and toilet bowl.
14. Soak your nuts in salt brine overnight and they will crack out of their shells whole. Just tap the end of the shell with a hammer to break it open easily.
15. Boil clothespins in salt water before using them and they will last longer.
16. Clean brass, copper and pewter with paste made of salt and vinegar, thickened with flour
17. Add a little salt to the water your cut flowers will stand in for a longer life.
18. Pour a mound of salt on an ink spot on your carpet; let the salt soak up the stain.
19. Clean your iron by rubbing some salt on the damp cloth on the ironing surface.
20. Adding a little salt to the water when cooking foods in a double boiler will make the food cook faster.
21. Use a mixture of salt and lemon juice to clean piano keys.
22. To fill plaster holes in your walls, use equal parts of salt and starch, with just enough water to make a stiff putty.
23. Rinse a sore eye with a little salt water.
24. Mildly salted water makes an effective mouthwash. Use it hot for a sore throat gargle.
25. Dry salt sprinkled on your toothbrush makes a good tooth polisher.
26. Use salt for killing weeds in your lawn.
27. Eliminate excess suds with a sprinkle of salt.
28. A dash of salt in warm milk makes a more relaxing beverage.
29. Before using new glasses, soak them in warm salty water for awhile.
30. A dash of salt enhances the taste of tea.
31. Salt improves the taste of cooking apples.
32. Soak your clothes line in salt water to prevent your clothes from freezing to the line; likewise, use salt in your final rinse to prevent the clothes from freezing.
33. Rub any wicker furniture you may have with salt water to prevent yellowing.
34. Freshen sponges by soaking them in salt water.
35. Add raw potatoes to stews and soups that are too salty.
36. Soak enamel pans in salt water overnight and boil salt water in them next day to remove burned-on stains.
37. Clean your greens in salt water for easier removal of dirt.
38. Gelatin sets more quickly when a dash of salt is added.
39. Fruits put in mildly salted water after peeling will not discolor.
40. Fabric colors hold fast in salty water wash.
41. Milk stays fresh longer when a little salt is added.
42. Use equal parts of salt and soda for brushing your teeth.
43. Sprinkle salt in your oven before scrubbing clean.
44. Soaked discolored glass in a salt and vinegar solution to remove stains..
45. Clean greasy pans with a paper towel and salt.
46. Salty water boils faster when cooking eggs.
47. Add a pinch of salt to whipping cream to make it whip more quickly.
48. Sprinkle salt in milk-scorched pans to remove odor.
49. A dash of salt improves the taste of coffee.
50. Boil mismatched hose in salty water and they will come out matched.
51. Salt and soda will sweeten the odor of your refrigerator.
52. Cover wine-stained fabric with salt; rinse in cool water later.
53. Remove offensive odors from stove with salt and cinnamon.
54. A pinch of salt improves the flavor of cocoa.
55. To remove grease stains in clothing, mix one part salt to four parts alcohol.
56. Salt and lemon juice removes mildew.
57. Sprinkle salt between sidewalk bricks where you don’t want grass growing.
58. Polish your old kerosene lamp with salt for a better look.
59. Remove odors from sink drainpipes with a strong, hot solution of salt water.
60. If a pie bubbles over in your oven, put a handful of salt on top of the spilled juice. The mess won’t smell and will bake into a dry, light crust which will wipe off easily when the oven has cooled.
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Hashim said:
Jun. 3, 2009
i don’t agree with #41 , I think milk will go bad if salt is added. Correct me if I am wrong. More uses of salt :–
- sprinkled on roads to slow down snow formation
- used in manufacturing of ice cream
Tim said:
Jun. 3, 2009
amazing uses of salt, impressed!
ejes said:
Jun. 3, 2009
Actually “Hashim” milk does NOT go bad with salt added, in fact it preserves it – when you add enough salt to milk we call it “cheese”
Hugo said:
Jun. 3, 2009
No. 25 is horribly bad for your teeth – it will polish them as an abrasive, but it will also weaken them! Don’t try this!
abumaia said:
Jun. 3, 2009
#14 sounds painful
ncartist said:
Jun. 3, 2009
Salt cures poison ivy. Rub dry salt over moistened skin roughly. It dries up the blisters within 2 days, and you get to scratch without spreading it! Absolutely amazing results.
Adam said:
Jun. 3, 2009
A lot of these are harmful…I wouldn’t try them. For example:
1. Rubbing salt on your teeth is abrasive and damages the enamel.
2. Putting salt on a weed will kill it…but it also will kill any other vegetation thats around it. So unless you want to kill your yard along with the weeds, don’t do it.
…Thats just a few of them.
mehmeh said:
Jun. 3, 2009
i’m sorry…boil mismatched hose with salt water and they come out matching…? beg your pardon but how is that supposed to work. are we thinking of the same kind of hose here?
Se7inC said:
Jun. 3, 2009
#61. swirl salt around the inside of a light bulb to get rid of the frosting on the glass prior to smoking “oil” out of it.
#62. mix salt with isopropyl alcohol and soak bubblers/bongs/pipes in the solution to clean them. works better than name brand pipe cleaners and is waaaay cheaper.
The moral of the story is that salt is a gateway drug.
firefliet said:
Jun. 3, 2009
“20. Adding a little salt to the water when cooking foods in a double boiler will make the food cook faster.”
-Wrong! Salt just lowers the boiling point of the water, which makes it -look- like it’s heating up faster. In reality, the temperature is actually not getting as hot to boil, so if anything, it would cook a little slower. (Salt, since it’s an ionic compound with a limiting vant Hoff factor of 2, has a potent effect if enough is used).
“35. Add raw potatoes to stews and soups that are too salty.”
I’ve had lids fall off of salt containers in stew, and no matter how many potatoes I added, it turned out to be salt, potato, and slightly chickeny soup with a couple noodles. (I fail at cooking, I really do…)
-Very useful, but sadly, it only goes so far.
“32. Soak your clothes line in salt water to prevent your clothes from freezing to the line; likewise, use salt in your final rinse to prevent the clothes from freezing.”
-Yeah, but once the water evaporates, the salt is left all over your clothes, and even in the fabric itself. You’d have to wash and dry the clothes again to get all of the darn salt out, so I really don’t see the point.
“23. Rinse a sore eye with a little salt water.”
-Um… have you ever opened your eyes underwater in the ocean or a saltwater pool? Not fun, my friend. It quite stings… You could probably use a little bit of salt in water as a saline solution, but I wouldn’t recommend cooking salt, and I would have to recommend measuring carefully, and if your eyes are sore you aren’t really going to care about getting concentrations correct.
“14. Soak your nuts in salt brine overnight…”
-Whoa there buddy! Your wording could use a little… SFW-ing up. Read it again out loud… ;D
“30. A dash of salt enhances the taste of tea.”
I think I’m going to throw up in my mouth a little… I don’t know what kind of tea you all are drinking! I can get coffee and cocoa, but if I have fine imported Lapsang Souchong or Mangosteen Matcha, I am certainly going to enjoy the flavour for what it is and -not- add salt. Tea isn’t -meant- to be a bitter drink! To me, bitterness means either low-grade tea or tea that was made incorrectly / brewed for far too long.
Most of us in developed countries already get far too much Sodium in our diets anyway, so even if a pinch of salt improves the flavour, it’ll also elevate your blood pressure if you aren’t careful.
adhish said:
Jun. 5, 2009
that’s good article
I like the way it was written & the way you explain it!
goood
Adam said:
Jun. 5, 2009
@firefliet – actually salt raises the boiling point because it’s ionic so it would be useful in making the water boil hotter.
Saline is what we use to wash our eyes which is buffered salt water, as long as the concentration is right, but not something we should be doing on our own
I dont think the tooth brush one would be a good idea, nor the soaking of clothes in salt water. Salt dissolves easily too, so it’d have to be a dry brush.
@#39 – lemon juice is a better idea since the citric and ascorbic acid help keep it from getting oxidized
Shebear said:
Jul. 22, 2009
Taken too seriously some of these cld be harmful but most not so. Cleaning the teeth is a good one but it cannot be used every time you clean yr teeth. gargling with salt water is a very old remedy for a sore throat and also if you have a tooth removed if you rinse your mouth with warm salty water it not only make yr mouth taste better it lso promotes healing. Don’t knock something just because you have not tried it or it is not all that hip and modern, you may be very supprised indeed.
ciske stoll said:
Jan. 25, 2011
not all is true..but i got my answer