You are probably wondering about the title of this post, but below I will share some unique ways you can use aluminum foil; it’s not just for cooking anymore.
- Scrub your pots and pans – If you run out of your handy dandy steel wools, no worries you can use foil. Just ball up a piece of aluminum foil and scrub away..it works!
- Speedy Ironing – To cut your ironing in half, place a sheet of foil between the cover and the ironing board. The foil conducts heat to speed up your ironing.
- No more grimy finger prints – protect your knobs from grimy, slimy little hands. Wrap foil over the sink handles and doorknobs and avoid fingerprints from your little Picasso.
- No more soup skin – Cut a piece of foil the size of your container and rest it directly on your stew or soup. Cover and store in refrigerator or freezer and say ‘good-bye’ to yucky soup skin.
- Tie them up – Did you run out of cooking twine? No worries, cut the foil into thin strips and use to tie up the legs of your roaster in oven. A thin strip of foil is the perfect solution.
- Sharpen your scissors - In between professional sharpening or for the inexpensive scissors you don’t want to pay to sharpen, use aluminum foil to keep your scissors in top form. Cutting through 6-8 layers of aluminum foil will improve the cutting surface of most scissors.
- Soften your hardened brown sugar – instead of placing the block of sugar in the microwave, wrap in some aluminum foil and bake in a 300° (Fahrenheit) oven for 5 minutes.
- Unique wrapping paper – if you’ve run out of wrapping paper, try cutting up some foil to wrap your gift. You can create bows too by twisting different sized strips of foil.
Do you know of anymore uses for foil? Please share in the comments section.
Dr. Daisy Sutherland is the Founder/CEO of Dr. Mommy Online. She is a doctor, author, mentor, speaker, wife & mom to 5 children. Dr. Mommy's mission is to ~ Help Busy Women and Men with her 'Get Real' approach to living a happier and healthier lifestyle. Watch for new book: 'Letting Go of Super Mom' coming out August 7, 2012.
