Flour: 10 alternative uses

Often to solve minor problems home, to devote themselves to housework or to create entertainment for children at virtually no cost simply take a look in your pantry, where hardly absent an ingredient such as flour, which can be transformed into one of the your allies for cleaning dishes or for the preparation of modeling dough homemade.

The flour that will be used to put into practice the following suggestions can safely be also the finest commercially available, as well as the less expensive to purchase, so that even if used for alternative uses, does not endanger the portfolios.

To enrich your diet of fiber, amino acids, minerals and B vitamins, some experts recommend changing the use of flour 00 with less refined flour, semi-full or full. The use of flour 0, less refined, it is indicated for each preparation kitchen which is usually suggested the use of the variety 00. In any case, do not throw completely flour 00 already own and dedicate rather its alternative uses.

1) Clean the copper

For optimum cleaning and polishing of crockery and copper objects you can use a mixture by mixing equal parts of flour, salt and white vinegar. The compound must be applied to the stained parts, allowed to dry and then gently removed. Your copper objects will be perfectly polished and clean.

2) Cleaning of

The parties to showers, bathtubs and sinks made of stainless steel can be cleaned and polished more easily if it is made a first pass using a microfiber or cotton cloth sprinkled with a little 'flour. With this method it will be easier and quicker to remove residual soap and traces of moisture.

3) Remove the ants
If you prefer that the ants do not do their entry into your home by going through the cracks of doors or windows, try creating a boundary sprinkling of flour near the point where they prefer to enter. This creates a barrier that the ants should not exceed.

4) In the garden
The flour can be used to remove parasites from its own garden, with particular reference to potato plants and pumpkins, in the immediate vicinity of which it is possible to spread a bit of white flour as a substitute to the use of substances harmful to both the man and the environment such as pesticides.

5) Gloves kitchen
The flour can be used in case him do hard work to wear of kitchen gloves made of rubber or latex or in the case not be able to withstand their contact with the skin for very long. Not all gloves contain a protective layer, which can be created inside them sprinkling of white flour. Remember to always buy gloves resistant so they can be reused many times.

6) Cleaning of playing cards
The old decks of playing cards often bear the signs of aging and fingerprints of those who have used them. How to make their own cards as new? E 'enough to have some of them in a bag, pour a little' flour inside, close to the end and shake the whole. This will give you the cards looking much better.

7) antistress ball
From a balloon size is not excessive and easy meal you can make a stress ball at almost zero cost. Simply fill the balloon with flour using a funnel and trying to give your ball a spherical shape as much as possible. Its diameter should be at least four centimeters. Finally, close your balloon with a node that is as close as possible to limit the content of flour of your new stress ball.

8) Pasta salt

The flour can be used for home preparation of the paste of salt, so that the smaller can play with it in full safety and saving you purchase of modeling pastes industrial. Salt dough can be prepared very quickly using only four simple ingredients. Here you will find the complete recipe.

9) Glue the cardboard
The flour can be easily used for the preparation of an adhesive label for the papier-mâché, replacing the liquid glues commonly commercially. It may be prepared by dissolving 50 grams of flour with a little water at room temperature and then pouring it into a pot containing 800 ml of boiling water. Mix well to obtain a homogeneous mixture, let it cool and use with the help of a flat brush for gluing several layers of paper, which you have, for example, recovered from your old magazines.

10) Pasta modeling

Unlike the paste of salt, which must be baked or left to dry in the sun in the summer or on a heater in winter once made their own creations, the simple modeling dough can be prepared and reused multiple times to play by children, making sure to keep it in an airtight container. For its preparation we need to work together to obtain a homogeneous mixture, two glasses of hot water, two cups of flour, one cup of salt and two tablespoons of vegetable oil. The addition of two teaspoons of cream of tartar will make modeling dough more elastic. Mixture can be combined natural dyes, such as turmeric, cinnamon or cocoa powder.