So my mom who is full of old school sayings told me today that if you put something in the fridge such as "peanut butter" or …..canned food and then taking it out the next day will cause the food to spoil much much more quickly. Is this right?

Just know that just because you were taught something, even in school, does not make it right. Is there a REASON this could be true? I know "some" bacteria flourish at low temps, but then wouldn’t this bacteria die once it left the fridge?

I bought a quart of soft-serve ice cream from a local stand. I would like it to last about 2 months without it becoming gritty, which it will typically do after it is kept in the freezer for awhile. Would it be possible to vacuum seal it in a food-saver container to prevent it from becoming gritty and also decreasing the amount of freezer burn?

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DID YOU KNOW?

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to
pick the little ‘stringy things’ off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them
in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350
for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low
and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on
the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes
with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.
The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel
roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in nar-
row openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt
or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
Place pin in seam of slacks and … ta da! … static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
!
Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of
your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside,
just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals
easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and
leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you
bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar
and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the
cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t
digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works
and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the
house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the
dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the fil-
ter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he
took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a
mesh material … I’m sure you know what your dryer’s lint filter looks like. Well …
the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn’t go through it at all! He told us
that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that’s what burns out the heating unit.
You can’t SEE the film, but it’s there. It’s what is in the dryer sheets to make your
clothes soft and static free … that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel
waxy when you take them out of the box .. well this stuff builds up on your clothes
and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your
house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long
time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with
hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months.
He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?!
Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn’t know dryer sheets would do that.
So, I thought I’d share!

Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran
through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it
with warm soapy water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when
I rinsed it … the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn’t any puddling at all! T
hat repairman knew what he was talking about!
note from Jean—-I checked out my dryer screen–I seldom use bounce,– but water would scarcely go through !! I cleaned it and then the water sailed right through -.imagine that ! —-
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE’S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE
SOMEONE’S LIFE.

check it out:

DID YOU KNOW?

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to
pick the little ‘stringy things’ off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them
in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350
for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low
and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on
the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes
with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.
The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel
roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in nar-
row openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt
or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
Place pin in seam of slacks and … ta da! … static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
!
Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of
your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside,
just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals
easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and
leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you
bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar
and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the
cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t
digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works
and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixe
haha def. not me :p

We have 3 cats, 2 DH (one found at 8 weeks & one at 4 months old) & 1 seal point siamese (adopted from a shelter at 1 year old). They are now 6, 4, and 4.5 years old. We are at our wit’s end with these cats… they have balls like no cats we’ve ever seen & they don’t hesitate to misbehave right in front of us.

-They vomit daily, sometimes multiple times a day. They’ll vomit on anything – couches where they sleep, on counters, on anything left on the floor (shoes!), 1 even threw up into our dishwasher. We have them on a good organic corn/gluten/soy-free cat food & they get fed a generous scoop 2x a day. Sometimes we will give them wet food as a treat. They have plenty of fresh water & two bowls of water to choose from. We don’t have anything out for them to get into & we don’t use any chemicals in the house (only organic natural cleaners).

-The one cat picks his fur out creating bald spots & has constant hairballs because of it. His nervous habits even gave him urinary tract crystals & we had to have him castrated to save his life.

-All 3 will wake us up every morning by scratching & meowing at the bedroom door until we give in. We can’t let them in the bedroom at night because they keep us up & destroy our stuff. They have damaged carpet in doorways & frames from scratching to wake us. We have tried putting a vacuum outside the door with the cord inside our room & plug it in to scare them, but they’ve gotten used to it & will sit there even with the vacuum on! They will also go into the living room & find something to make noise with like pawing at the spring doorstops or smacking the lid of the litter box, anything to make a loud noise to wake us up.

-We can’t have plants, even hung from our 10 foot ceilings. They have actually moved their cat furniture in order to be able to jump & destroy these plants hanging 7 feet from the floor.

-They are on our counters & dining table constantly despite getting yelled at, squirted with a squirt bottle & punished by holding them by the scruff. They show some fear but will go right back on the table 10 minutes later. The siamese is particularly bad & shows no fear of punishment.

-They’ve destroyed our couches & chairs beyond repair. They don’t care if they have bitter apple spray or double sided tape on them, they’ll scratch right through the tape.

-The 1 cat who was found at 4 months old feral & was hit by a car is OBSESSED with food. He’ll break into cupboards (we now have child locks) & will even put his paw down the sink to get to the garbage disposal to pull up scraps – even lemon wedges. He’ll eat anything even if its poisonous or dangerous. He once ate an entire corn cob half WHOLE, we had to take him to the vet. He’ll also eat non-food items like shoe insoles, anything made of silicone like my bakeware, & even electronics cords.

-All 3 are terrible about begging when we’re eating. They will paw at us, meow, try & jump in our laps while we’re eating. The 1 food-obsessed cat will even strike his paw or snap his mouth trying to steal food out of our hand. He’ll sit on top of the fridge & I’ve had him claw me to steal spaghetti out of my hand when I’m straining it!

-They will tip over our trash can no matter what is in it, so we can’t even keep it in the house anymore which is very inconvenient. We’ve tried hanging a trash bag up high on a hook on our back door & they’ll jump until their claws break it & trash is strewn everywhere.

We have a large 3 bedroom home and no children so they have plenty of space to play. We provide them lots of toys & scratching posts & cat furniture of their own, and they have so many windows to watch birds and bugs and lizards out of. They always want our lap & I don’t work so they get plenty of lap time. We give them catnip & we sometimes buy fresh growing cat grass because they love it. They have a large litter box that has pine litter & it’s changed regularly. The only restriction we put on them is we don’t let them in any of the bedrooms because they could stain the carpet with vomit (we have tile throughout the rest). The vet says they’re the healthiest cats they’ve seen – all perfect weights & seem quite happy. They typically only have to go to the vet once a year for their well visit, so they are never in a carrier or caged besides that.

I am losing my patience. I will NEVER give them up, but I need to find a solution to these problems. I’ve tried to distract them when they’re naughty but it doesn’t work. The only thing I can think of is we have moved a lot (in 2010 we lived in 3 states & drove 8 days across country one trip). However each time we’ve moved it has been to a larger home so I thought they would be happier. I just can’t understand why my cats are so bad & why none of the traditional methods of correcting a cat are working for mine. My only other thought

I keep finding black ants in my bedroom, and every time I think it’s safe and I don’t see them for a couple days, I’ll find another one. I think they’re coming in through the window, but I can’t find and seal the crack. There is no ‘line’ of ants so far, but I am severely scared of them, and the thought of even one making it to my bed makes me afraid to sleep there.

Since I can’t find the point of entry, some methods I’ve read on the net don’t work. Does anyone know a (preferably not too chemical) way to deter ants from coming in?

My room is spotless clean, I now vacuum every couple days, and there is no food or water at all in there. I really hate this! Can anyone help, please?

Thank you.

So I live in the dorms at school (they were built in the 60′s) and I live on the 6th floor (not that elevation helps with cockroaches). I like to think I (and my roommate) are fairly clean persons: we vacuum my room weekly, all food is in rubbermaid tubs and sealed off. I have recently discovered cockroaches in the room (small ones thank god) and the school is coming to spay and bait for them in our room. My question is what to do with the clothes and bedding. If these pests have laid eggs will simply washing them work to kill them? We have decided to throw out the rugs we have in the room along with the curtains and fabric wall coverings. But I can’t afford to throw out all my clothing here or my jackets. What do i need to do about books and things like that will they need to be pitched also? Any helpful advice would be appreciated

Which one of the following is not an acceptable method to eliminate flies from your food service establishment?

A. Using fly swatters
B. Using chemical sprays

C. Sealing cracks and openings

D. Using air-current curtains

. As a food service manager, one of your job responsibilities is to teach your staff fire safety procedures. Along with fire safety prevention, you should also be sure that your employees know

A. how to call the fire department and evacuate customers from the building.
B. that a Class A fire extinguisher should always be their first choice for fire suppresion.

C. that their first responsibility is to extinguish the fire themselves.

D. that an electrical fire should be suppressed with a halon extinguisher.

4. When working in the kitchen of a restaurant, you notice an alcoholic smell coming from the work counter. This smell might be produced by

A. moldy vegetables.
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B. yeasts growing on foods.

C. musty cardboard boxes.

D. rodent infestation.

As a manager in the food service industry, you must realize that one of the most important factors in controlling food spoilage is

A. purchasing small quantities.
B. proper refrigeration.

C. stacking cartons above the floor.

D. buying frozen or canned foods whenever possible.

8. Vacuum packing of food employs a food preservation technique that

A. holds chemicals in the food.
B. controls the oxygen level.

C. freezes the food.

D. maintains a uniform heat level.

What does the chemical calcium propionate do in baked goods?

A. Raises the temperature
B. Absorbs moisture

C. Causes expansion during cooking

D. Extends shelf life

If you enter a food service operation and notice an offensive smell, it might be caused by a serious infestation of

A. cockroaches.
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B. parasites.

C. rodents.

D. houseflies.

Which of the following methods to handle rodent infestation is not proactive?

A. Calling the exterminator after seeing several rats around the garbage
B. Storing food six inches off the floor and at least two feet away from the walls

C. Sealing the outside and the inside of your building thoroughly

D. Calling the exterminator to visit your facility periodically to prevent potential problems
You’re employed at a restaurant that has just bought a new high-temperature dishwasher. When reading the directions, you read that the water temperature in the wash cycle shouldn’t exceed 160 ° F (71° C). This is because

A. the plastic waste lines will melt if the water temperature exceeds 160° F (71° C).
B. food particles such as egg will cook on the dishes if higher temperatures are used.

C. workers will be burned when handling the dishes.

D. the cost of heating th
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As a manager of Giovanni’s Restaurant, one of your job responsibilities is to supervise workers who manually wash dishes. You instruct the dishwasher to complete the final rinse by either filling the third compartment with clean hot water measuring 1700 F (770 C) and soaking the ware in it for at least one-half minute, or by

A. soaking the ware for 20 minutes in a rinse water of 130° to 140° F (54° to 60° C).
B. draining the second compartment and refilling with clean water measuring 190° to 200° F (88° to 93° C) for the final rinse.

C. filling the third compartment with clean, warm water of not less than 75° F (24° C) and adding a chemical sanitizing agent, then following the instructions provided with the chemical agent regarding the amount to use and the length of time to soak the ware.

D. rinsing the ware in the third compartment under running water of not less than 190° to 200° F (88° to 93° C) for 30 seconds.
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14. Foods that have been cooked, and therefore have few competing bacteria or other microorganisms present, but are allowed to cool at room temperature

A. can easily produce large amounts of staph toxin.
B. should be treated with calcium proprionate.

C. probably have very alkaline pH levels.

D. should be completely cooled before being placed in a refrigerator.

15. As a supervisor in a restaurant, you’ll want to instruct your staff to always use _______ to keep all food preparation equipment and work stations sanitary.

A. detergent and clean cloths
B. a water temperature of 1400 F

C. scouring pads

D. heat instead of chemical disinfectants

So yea basically here are the rules.

1) Nothing super heavy.
2) Nothing that requires refrigeration.
3) No freeze dried foods (gross!)

Some other things to keep in mind, this is going to be a 12 day backpacking trip (thats why nothing super heavy.) We will have a fresh supply of water near by at all times so we can use that to cook things. Finally we have a pot & pan that can be used to cook over a portable stove top. Also please refrain from listing junkfoods, that end of things is easy to figure out…its the other stuff that has me stumped. Heres what we have so far:

Oatmeal
Pancakes
Potatoe Pancakes
Trail Mix
Nuts
Fruit/dried fruit
Granola Bars
Tuna (the kind thats vacuum sealed in a bag)
Pasta/small thing of sauce
Rice
Potates
Corn
Ramen Noodles
Bread
Crackers
Peanut Butter
Various Vegetables
Popcorn
Fruit leather

Please list as many things as you can think of, whoever can list the most conventional and useful ones will get 10pts. Thanks!
Good freaking point Steph! Thats an essential, Im a complete idiot )

How does a vacuum sealed sandwich or some fast food if it was unrefrigerated?