Tips and useful information 
• To freeze quicker a bottle of wine or beer, throw a handful of salt over the ice cubes in the pail. Salt helps to lower the water temperature and speeds the process of cooling.
• To cool quicker custard coming out of the oven, put it on a frying pan or in a bowl with salted water.
• To test if the egg is still fresh, break it over a frying pan with salted water.
• The fresh egg sinks and the rotten one floats.
• Fritters become crispier if you add salt at the last moment.
• Raw fish gets less slippery if you wet your hands and smear salt over them.
• For “al dente” and loose pasta cook it in plenty of water with a table spoon of salt per quart.
• Spread salt over the exposed side of the onion before you cut it. This will avoid tears.
• To peel hard boiled eggs quicker add a teaspoon of salt on the water you boiled it.
• Put some salt in the frying pan before you fry fish to avoid it from sticking to the pan.
• Put some salt on frying pans, gills and roasters. Heat them in the oven and remove the salt. Next time you use them food won’t stick
• A little salt in the milk or cream will increase their life in the refrigerator.
 • Flowers will last longer in their pots if you add a little salt to the water and cut the stem for better absorption.
• Cups for coffee and tea will recover their white if you rub them with a mixture of half salt and half white vinegar.
• Stains of cups on the table tops if rubbed with one coffee spoon of salt and water
• Crusts of burned pots: spread salt, wait ten minutes and then rub.
• Stained silver become clean and shinning when boiled in a solution of one teaspoon of salt for one liter of water.
Deodorize
• The odor of a used sneaker can be reduced if you spread salt in it. Salt absorbs humidity and the bad odor.
• Jars and thermal bottles loose their odor when filled with a salt solution of one liter of water and a teaspoon of salt. Empty them one hour later or more and wash them with water and soap.
• The smell of onions and garlic on your hands disappear immediately if you rub them with salt and vinegar.
Laundry
• To remove stains of blood: Immerse the stained tissue in cold water and salt, and then with warm water and soap and boil it after.
• To clear linen and cotton yellowed, boil them in a solution of salt and yeast for each two liters of water.
• Sweat stains: add four soup spoons of salt to 1/2 liter of hot water and rub the stained area.
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