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Boiled dressings for first and second courses are inferior in taste and aroma to fresh ones, so it is preferable to freeze chopped vegetables rather than canning. Salting them will be even more practical. Let's look at how to do this very tasty, quickly and so that

Having successful childhood experience in modeling from plasticine, you can try yourself in making simple concrete sculptures to decorate the garden. You don't have to be Michelangelo to do this, although a certain amount of talent is still required. You can pre-

Sometimes you have to perform one-time repair work, for which purchasing a specialized tool is impractical. In such situations, you can make do with homemade devices made from scrap materials.

In winter (with a lack of fresh vegetables in our diet), sauerkraut comes to the rescue.This vitamin snack is good both on the everyday menu and on the holiday menu.

Many people have old DVD movie theaters sitting idle at home. No one has been buying CDs for them for a long time and, in fact, the equipment is lying around idle. Most of these home theaters include powerful and high-quality acoustics with

Fans of smoked meats can smoke fish in their own kitchen. The method is very fast, not smoky and extremely simple. The result is perfect smoked mackerel that tastes better and is cheaper than in the store.

The circular disk is made of excellent steel, so you can cut a small, fully functional camping hatchet out of it. It will come in handy when fishing, on a picnic, and will also help out at home, for example, when cutting up chicken. The cost of a used saw blade is

It's no secret that if you put an onion in a glass of water, then very soon a green feather will begin to grow from it. However, after a few weeks, the water in the glass will deteriorate and the smell from such a plantation on the windowsill will not be the most pleasant.

You can catch fish in different ways, even using traps made from ordinary PET bottles. Of course, you can’t get trophies with them, but it’s quite possible to prepare small fish for drying, preparing canned food, or for live bait.

The surface of ordinary concrete without reinforcement gradually crumbles, and potholes appear on it. To protect it from further destruction, any existing sinkholes should be sealed and protective paint applied. To keep it well, it is important to adhere

To make beautiful unusual accessories from metal, you don’t need to have a lot of machines and power tools. An example is making a keychain in the shape of a bullet, to assemble which it is enough to have a grinder and a drill.

Wasps are extremely dangerous insects, as they often attack humans or pets for no apparent reason, and are also capable of stinging several times in a row. In areas where their nests are located or sweet juicy plants grow

In unevenly welded garage doors, the gaps between the leaves and the frame can vary greatly, so it is impossible to close them with a sealing rubber band. In this case, you can seal the gaps with polyurethane foam. The method works with cracks of any size,

Wing nuts made of non-ferrous metals are very rare, and you can’t buy ordinary steel ones in every store. If you can’t get nuts of the right size, you can simply cast them from aluminum. It's not difficult at all, you don't even need to cut into them

Those who like to store lard frozen or covered with salt lose a lot, since it is difficult to come up with something better from it than a cold appetizer in brine. Be sure to prepare a couple of jars of this dish, and you will not regret anything.

If you don’t have a garden auger, you don’t have to go to a hardware store to buy one; you can weld this tool yourself. To do this, all you need is an old circular blade and a couple of worn-out reciprocating saw blades.

When removing the spine of the herring along the back, as many cooks do, small bones may remain inside the fillet. To avoid them, you need practice, which an ordinary person does not have. Without experience, you can perfectly fillet a herring using one little-known technique:

Forged rivets can be used in the manufacture of various decorative and power metal structures. However, in order for it to be not only reliable, but also accurate, special stamps must be used when installing it. Let's look at how they

To collect full baskets of mushrooms, you have to comb hectares of forest. This makes your legs and back tired and wastes a lot of time.In fact, mycologists have long identified the places where mushrooms grow at every step. Knowing these secrets, you can immediately

From a regular syringe, magnets and enameled wire, you can assemble a compact hand-held generator for emergency lighting. The device generates electricity by shaking. This is quite a useful homemade product that is worth making even in

The bearing ball is made of very high quality steel, so if you forge a cutter from it and apply the correct hardening, the cutting edge of the tool will hold its edge perfectly. At first glance, the implementation of the idea of ​​a blade made from a ball is very

Chicory kvass, unlike classic bread kvass, is made very quickly. You can put it on in the morning, and by the evening you can enjoy an excellent cold drink. There are many recipes for kvass, but most of them either take a long time to make or are not

In order for the poured concrete to be as strong and durable as possible, it is necessary to follow the technology when concreting. Otherwise, it may crumble, crack, or simply not gain maximum strength.

After cutting down a tree, a stump remains, which, even with a living root, produces shoots for many years. Usually, to get rid of it, you need to dig it up along with the roots, which can take several hours or even days. It is much easier and more accurate to pull out the stump from