Kitchen tips and tricks with pictures:

1. Use scissors to chop green chilies. This helpful to avoid burning of fingers after cutting green chilies. You can also chop coriander leaves or any other leaves using the scissors.
2. Press and roll the lemon until lemon is soft. After that, either wipe or rinse the lemon. Finally halve it and squeeze out the juice. Juice extraction will be very easy and you get more juice too.
3. Peeling ginger is little tricky. So use a spoon to peel the ginger. You can finish the work in no time.
4. Now to chop the ginger, either use a grater or make thin slices and crush them. Within few seconds you will be ready with chopped ginger.
5. Ants love sugar and if by mistake the lid was not properly closed, ants will definitely come in search of sugar. Now to be on safer side, put 4 - 5 cloves in the sugar container. Cloves will keep the ants at bay!
6. Chopping onion will surely make you cry..especially if you want to chop more than 2 onions. So after halving and peeling the onion, quicky rinse them using good water. Enjoy chopping..No more crying while chopping the onion.
7. Crush the whole garlic for easy peeling. Kindly watch the video..given above after the description.
8. Or otherwise, soak the garlic cloves in hot water for few minutes and then peel. You can peel the garlic very easily with this trick.

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