You can use your SodaStream to double the life of your salad greens? With the price of greens right now this hack is very useful. Carbon dioxide “slows the respiration process of the greens and in turn slows the process of ripening and wilting”.Use it to expel CO2 into a bag of greens with the nozzle. The bag of greens with the carbon dioxide from the soda maker lasted almost twice as long (nine days versus five days) before showing signs of significant wilting. You can also breathe into the bag. The carbon dioxide in an exhaled breath increases the concentration of the gas in the bag, but who wants to eat those greens? (Via Americastestkitchen.com)
A reader writes: “We’ve just had some huge bi-fold doors fitted as part of our house extension. For the first few days the builders locked them when they left at night and took the key with them so we couldn’t open them. I was dying to see what they looked like open, and asked if we could have the key. The builder said they needed to settle and he usually liked to leave them closed for a week or so to make sure the sealants were fully set and nothing shifted or moved. He reluctantly gave me a key but made me promise not to open them fully while he was gone. Just the first panel. I was so impatient about seeing them fully open that as soon as he left, I unlocked all the panels and swung them all open with a flourish, promptly snapping off and breaking the metal handle in the middle because I hadn’t turned it correctly. Blush. I spent the evening googling ‘bi-fold door replacement handles’ in the vague hope that I could replace it without the builder noticing. (He noticed).”
