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1. A bay leaf added to the flour container will keep the flour free from moisture!
2. Add a piece of coconut shell to a mutton dish while it is getting cooked, the meat remains tender and gets cooked much faster!
3. Add a pinch of salt while frying Puris or Pakoras – this will help absorb less oil!
4. Add a pinch of sugar while cooking spinach and green leafy vegetables, it will retain its green colour!
5. Add atea spoon full of vinegar in water while boiling eggs. Even if they crack content will not come out!
6. Add some boiled rice while grinding for Dosa, this will give soft Dosas!
7. Always fry onions in a little oil and then grind. Raw onion paste will turn bitter immediately!
8. Avoid eggplant (brinjal) turning black by putting the cut pieces in a bowl of water mixed with a spoon of milk!
9. Before beating eggs, rinse the container with water. The mixture will not stick to the sides of the vessel.
10. Cleaning your grater after shredding cheese can be made easy by grating a raw potato after the cheese. The potato clears the gummy cheese out of the holes!
11. Cut the top of the carrot and store in air tight bag. This will keep it fresh for a longer period!Put the bananas in a black plastic bag before keeping it in the refrigerator – skin will not turn black and they will come out yellow even after a week! Lemon juice added to carrot cooking water will help keep the color bright!
12. Do not fry paneer, immerse it in boiling water to make it soft and spongy!
13. Fat can be removed from hot soup by floating a large lettuce leaf on the surface!
14. For soft idlies like a sponge do not stir the batter after it has got fermented.Pour the batter as it is!
15. If you don’t have any cream to add in the soup or gravy, add a mixture of butter and milk!
16. If you drop an egg on the floor, cover it with salt and leave it for a couple of minutes. Cleaning the mess will be easy with a paper towel!
17. If you happen to bite a chili in your food take a sip of cold milk to sustain the heat!
18. Keep boiled eggs in cold water for 5 minutes, this will make removal of the shell easier!Store Sambar powder and Rasam powder in the deep freezer. This will keep the fresh aroma for a longer time!Always soak cut egg plants (brinjal) in water otherwise it will turn black!Never use stainless steel spoons for pickles, this will react with the acids in the pickle!For spongy egg scramble add 3 tsp of milk while beating!
19. Keep the Karela in water and add a pinch of salt in it for 1/2 hour to remove the bitterness of it!
20. Mushrooms readily absorb water, even from atmosphere – they should never be washed. Instead wipe them with a clean and damp cloth!
21. Never cook mushrooms in aluminum pans because the mushrooms will darken!
22. Never keep greens in plastics, it will rot quickly!
23. Never store an apple near a banana unless you want to ripen the banana in a short period of time!
24. Never store potatoes near onions! Potatoes rot quickly if stored near onions!
25. Never use metallic bowls to marinate meat – the acids (vinegar or lemon) can react with the metal bowls!Add a small amount of sugar when cooking carrots, peas, beets or corn – this will keep the flavour!
26. No more tears while cutting onions.. keep the onions in a plastic bag and keep it in the fridge. Take out just before cutting!
27. Placing Potatoes in salt water for 15 minutes before baking make them bake quickly. Salt also adds taste!To keep the chilies fresh for a longer time, remove the stems before storing!
28. Potatoes: To keep them from budding, place an apple in the bag with potatoes!
29. Reduce the burning sensation after cutting green chillies by keeping the fingers in a bowl of cold milk added with some sugar!
30. Rub a little oil on the rim of the container, the milk won’t overspill while boiling!
31. Sprinkle a bit of salt in the frying pan before adding chicken. It will cut down on the amount of grease splattering!
32. Store tomatoes with stems pointed down and they will stay fresher, longer!
33. To avoid milk sticking to bottom of utensils while boiling, add sugar into it!
34. To avoid refrigerator stinking throw a piece of lemon!
35. To avoid sticky rice, add a tsp of oil and a tsp of lemon juice while cooking!
36. To get rid of the smell of eggs in the cakes, add one tablespoon honey to the cake batter while beating it!
37. To keep cauliflower white while cooking -add a little milk to the water!
38. To keep lemon fresh put them in water and store in refrigerator.
39. To Peel Garlic, fry on hot pan for few seconds peel will come out very easily!
40. To peel the almonds easily, keep them covered in boiling hot water for five minutes!
41. To remove excess salt in the dish you are preparing, add a few pieces of raw potato!
42. To remove the coffee stain in the cup, fill it with any kind of soda for 3 hours!
43. To restore color and shine to an aluminum pan, boil some apple peels in it for a few minutes, then rinse and dry!
44. To store chili powder longer, Keep a piece of asafoetida in the same container!
45. When boiling vegetables, cook them whole and then cut them into pieces. This reduces the loss of proteins and soluble carbohydrates!
46. When the noodles are boiled, drain all the hot water and add cold water. This way all the noodles will get separated!
47. While cooking okra (ladyfingers) add a few drops of lemon juice or a spoonful of yogurt to avoid becoming sticky.!
48. While cooking smelly foods, soak a cloth towel and let it dry in the cooking area. It will absorb the smell of cooking and keep the room fresh!
49. While frying onions add salt to it so that it will be cooked very fast!
50. While frying Onions, add a little milk – this will help retain a rich color and prevent them from burning!
51. While storing green chilies, remove the stems. This will help the chilies to stay fresh for a longer time.!

High Fliers

• Abide by the list of items prohibited on board and carry most items like skis/cues/walking canes/sticks/Swiss knives in checked in baggage – this smoothens the check-in process plus avoids the risk of confiscation and unnecessary delays.
• Airlines follow very strict security procedures. So make sure you reach the airport for check in well before departure time. Its best to check with the airline regarding how much in advance you should be at the airport.
• Do not accept any package from a stranger.
• For a smooth ride on a plane, choose the seats located near the wings as if the plane hits an air pocket, this is where you will get the least amount of bumps.
• If you are planning to watch the in flight movie, choose the fourth or fifth row from the screen to avoid getting a neck cramp.
• If you are prone to motion sickness, take an anti sickness pill before the flight. The pill won’t help much, if you have it after you have started feeling sick!
• If your baggage does not arrive on the same flight as you, fill out a Property Irregularity Report (PIR), with a description of the baggage, a list of contents and address to which it should be forwarded. If your baggage does not arrive at all, place a claim with the airline within 21 days.
• Last and this is equally important – report any unattended items in the airport or aircraft to the nearest airport or airline personnel.
• Overbooking is a fact of life in the airline industry. If you are not in a particular hurry to get to your destination then volunteer to give your seat up and take the next flight. The airline will provide you a hotel room and other frills, so you can end up having an extended vacation at the airlines expense!
• Refrain from OD-ing on the free booze when on a flight, as too much alcohol causes dehydration. Tank up instead on aqua-pura.
• To beat jetlag, book an overnight flight or one that arrives in the evening when travelling east so you can either catch your sleep on the flight or as soon as you get in to your destination.
• To prevent the swelling of feet as is wont to happen on long flights, walk in the aisle at intervals and try not to take off your shoes.
• When making flight reservation, remember to request for special meals if you have any food restrictions.

Weather Vane

• Keep track of the weather at your destination and be prepared, especially if you are going to a hurricane prone area.

Heartbreak Hotel

• Check whether your hotel has a hair-dryer, iron, coffee percolator, etc, to avoid carrying these gadgets and also making it easy to skip the 110/220 conversion problem when travelling to foreign countries.
• Don’t depend solely on the hotel’s alarm service. Carry your own little alarm clock to catch an early morning flight or that pre-dawn sightseeing trip.
• Make your hotel reservations in advance, especially if you are visiting a place in peak season. You don’t want to be caught without a roof over your head!
• Most hotels frown on guests doing their own laundry in the bathrooms, but if you do need to wash some smalls, carry a length of nylon twine to improvise a clothesline.
• Negotiating room tariffs over the phone? Call the hotel twice to confirm the rates. Note down the name of the person you have talked to and request a written/faxed confirmation. This way you can be sure that you will not be wrongly billed by the hotel.
• When you check into your hotel, ask the reception to give you a card with the hotel’s name address and telephone number. This will come in handy if you get lost or forget the name of your hotel.

1. 1/15th of a pint of blood is pumped with every heartbeat.
2. 70% of the composition of dust in your home is made up of shed human skin and hair.
3. A cough can reach the speed of 60mph.
4. A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.
5. A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the tip.
6. A person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in an average lifetime.
7. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100mph.
8. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
9. Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.
10. Each person inhales about seven quarts of air every minute.
11. Each second 10,000,000 cells die and are replaced in your body.
12. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
13. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
14. Humans are the only animals that cry tears and blush.
15. Humans share 98.4% of our DNA with chimps. In comparison, we share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
16. If stomachs did not have a lining of mucus, your stomach would digest itself.
17. If the normal one hundred thousand hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than twelve tons.
18. It takes 17 muscles to smile while taking 43 muscles to frown.
19. It takes about 60 seconds for a human blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body.
20. It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
21. More germs are transferred when shaking hands than kissing.
22. More germs are transferred while shaking hands compared to kissing.
23. On average, humans lose 40-100 strands of hair per day.
24. On average, we breathe between 12 and 18 times a minute.
25. On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just over 2,000 words.
26. One human hair can support 3kg.
27. One out of every hundred American citizens is color blind.
28. Roughly 75% of people who play the radio in their car sing along to it.
29. The average guy will grow about 27 feet of hair out of his face during his lifetime.
30. The average human blinks 25 times per minute.
31. The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day.
32. The average person (from western culture) consumes 10 liters of alcohol per year.
33. The average person flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a lifetime.
34. The average person spends 1/3 of their lifetime sleeping.
35. The average person will drink about 16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.
36. The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in his/her lifetime.
37. The fingernail grows about 1.5 inches per year.
38. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
39. The human brain is composed of 75% water.
40. The human brain is composed of 75% water.
41. The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy but is only 2% of the body’s weight.
42. The lightest baby to survive weighed a mere 283 grams.
43. The number of eye blinks varies greatly from about 29 blinks each minute if you are talking to someone to only 4 blinks each minute if you are reading.
44. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
45. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
46. The total amount of skin covering an adult human weighs 6 lbs.
47. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
48. There are approximately 550 hairs in a person’s eyebrow.
49. Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body.
50. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Chameleon Tounge

1. 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.
2. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
3. A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
4. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
5. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
6. A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
7. A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
8. A mosquito has 47 teeth.
9. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
10. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
11. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
12. An albatross can sleep while flying.
13. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
14. Armadillos, opossums, and sloth’s spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
15. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
16. Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Oho Zoo in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
17. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
18. Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
19. Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
20. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
21. Hummingbird’s consume half of their weight in food daily.
22. Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
23. In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States.
24. It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
25. Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump.
26. Male seahorses produce offspring.
27. Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.
28. Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
29. On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
30. Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
31. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
32. Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
33. Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.
34. The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960’s.
35. The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.
36. The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
37. The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
38. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
39. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.
40. The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
41. The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.
42. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.