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I’m wondering if there’s any way to reduce the metal taste that comes from cutlery. Can I wash them a certain way, or what?

It’s usually fine with forks and knives, but using spoons to eat ice cream, yogurt, cereal, etc, makes whatever I’m eating unpleasant because of the metallic taste.

You must be ultra sensitive because I’ve never heard that before. I would choose a really high quality plastic,rubber or wooden cutlery. Another thing to try is switch toothpastes to a "sensitive" tooth paste like Sensadone.

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I’m in a play and in one scene my character waves around cutlery. The problem with this is that the forks and knives reflect badly on the lights and creates a blinding effect towards the audience.
My director asked me to wash the cutlery with a bar of soap, (i’m using an organic, olive oil based bar of soap) and told me it would take away the shine.
The trouble with this is that it isn’t working!
Any advice on what i should do?

Silly question, but are you rinsing them off after washing? Try leaving the soap on them

Next option: if you have hard water locally, and are using softened water, try using water that hasn’t been through the softener. It will leave lots of water stone on the cutlery if you just let it drip-dry (yes, I found this out the hard way).

You can try scratching the cutlery with some steel wool, that might reduce the shininess. At the very least you won’t get a beam of light reflecting into the audience.

If nothing else works, just get them dirty enough that they are no longer shiny.

I have recently been completely refurbishing my home. I have managed to sell old furniture and carpets etc in newspapers and online, and most other things have gone for re-cycling. Now; the kitchen! All of my old crockery, casserole dishes etc, I have smashed into small pieces, ready to use as drainage in plantpots in the garden….so, most of the stuff has been disposed of in an eco-friendly way. My problem now is, how do I dispose of old cutlery, particularly things like carving knives, bread knives etc safely?

Hi, you sound really busy and good on you for not just dumping it. Charity shops will be more than happy to take them or a scrap metal dealer, art college, I’ve seem some amazing mobiles made from twisted and bent cutlery

Rust is accumulated near the plastic handle of the cutlery.

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Be kind to yourself. Stay well away from pharmacy shelves than if you try to help curb your appetite. Apart from the high costs of appetite suppressant drugs, their dependence on nature and observe the side effects make it a potentially dangerous choice. Given that in most cases their effects are of short duration and its weight quickly rebounds when you stop taking them, not only are expensive and dangerous, but really too useless.

There are many natural methods for controlling your appetite. The following eight have been chosen for being effective, cheap and easy for everyone to implement.

1: Exercise. Contrary to popular opinion, you do not “work up an appetite” through exercise. Exercise is a proven appetite suppressant. It stimulates brain chemicals known as endorphins. These are your body’s natural pain killers that give you a mood boost and reduce your appetite. (The corollary is that people who lack these endorphins due to insufficient exercise tend to boost their mood via “comfort food” instead.)

2: Drink more water, regularly. The human body craves hydration long before it craves food. Modern society and product marketing has ‘educated’ people into confusing thirst with hunger. Drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day will help to keep your appetite in check.

3: Avoid artificial sweeteners. Despite the well publicised fact of artificial sweeteners having no calories, they are the enemy of the dieter. Many studies in both human and animals have proven conclusively that these chemical sweeteners stimulate the appetite. Avoid them like the plague. Particularly do not drink diet sodas. Stick with water.

4: Spice & season your food. A recent study demonstrated that sprinkling common spices and seasonings such as herbs like oregano and others reduces the human appetite. The reasoning appears to be that the blander the food, the more a person tends to eat to feel satisfied. Herbal seasonings have next to no calories and enhance the flavour of your food, leading to earlier satiety.

5: Don’t miss breakfast. Skipping this most important meal of the day not only slows your metabolism, it results in snacking and binge eating later in the day.

6: Avoid sugars and starches. Eat proteins and non-starchy fibers. Other than the obvious calorie implications of sugars, sugars and starches are short-chain carbohydrates that are very rapidly converted into blood glucose, then very rapidly stored in muscle and fat tissue. This leads to rapid spikes and troughs, highs and lows, in your daily blood sugar levels and thus the urge to eat to treat those low points. Protein foods and high fiber non-starchy vegetables are more nutritious and take longer to fully digest – preventing those blood sugar spikes and troughs.

7: Eat slowly. After the first mouthful of food at a meal, it takes about twenty (20) minutes for the satiety signal from your stomach to reach your brain. Make a habit of taking a bite, then put your cutlery while chewing food thoroughly. Do not withdraw the new tool until you have completely chewed and swallowed what is in your mouth. The development of this habit gives your brain time to recognize what you have already consumed the first shower in the mouth too. Eat slowly, which means you feel fuller on less food intake.

8: To develop healthy sleep patterns. The lack of sleep or disrupted sleep patterns of different disrupt hormonal functions in your body, at least two of which lead to loss of appetite control. Moreover, most people tend to compensate for their feeling of a lack of energy caused by lack of sleep by drinking too much or calories. A constant, more than eight hours of sleep per night will help in controlling appetite as hormonal desire during the day.

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It is disgusting yes, but I need to clean stainless steel cutlery that has been left dirty in a sink covered in water for weeks on end. I expect there to be lots of bacteria present now and need to know how best to clean the cutlery to prevent potential illnesses.

And would it be better to just throw them away and purchase new? Even if this is the case, how best should they be cleaned? Thank you very much.

Run them through the dish washer. Mine would sterilize crap if I put it in. If you don’t have one, bleach & water should help. Bleach kills the germs and bacteria.

Stainless steel is good material for any type of cookware – pots, pans, bakeware, etc. A large part of its value comes from the fact that it does not corrode, and also stainless steel, unlike cast iron, does not react with acidic or alkaline materials. Additionally, a well designed and well made stainless steel cookware item is easy to clean with a scratchy pad, oven cleaner spray, or just about any cleaner that you typically use. If you want good stainless steel cookware or bakeware, check out www.CooksPlus.com, which is one of the biggest retailers of brand name, high quality kitchenware on the web. You’ll be truly impressed with the quality of the products they stock.

Now depending on your needs, you may prefer to purchase All-Clad cookware, made from layers of different metals, which makes it more expensive that stainless steel, but superior in some ways. Since more time and effort go into its production, the cost is higher. But All-Clad cookware and bakeware is also better to cook with, since All-Clad cookware takes advantage of the different qualities of each of the different types of metal used in its fabrication. The end result is better quality food, so it’s probably worth the investment. Check it out at CooksPlus.com for a great shopping experience – knowledge and expertise. You’ll be surprised at what you find.

Check out the buying guide at www.CooksPlus.com. It contains a lot of important information to help you make the right choice about which kitchenware to purchase – cookware, bakeware, cutlery, small kitchen appliances. CooksPlus has it all.

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Picking out good, high quality sets of cookware is very important, especially if you want to hand them down for generations to come, and can be a challenge without the best resources at hand. Buying quality cookware will save you more in the future because you don’t need to replace them for a very long time. For first timers who want to purchase their first cookware sets, they need to assess the type of cookware needed for everyday usage and special occasions, particularly if your usage entails catering to a number of people.

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It is known that role playing for kids has various advantageous in their development and growth. Allowing them to pretend to do something or be someone else stimulates their imagination, builds their confidence and encourages them to try on new things. It also encourages them to interact and communicate with other kids. In the process, they develop skills on how to deal with other children, and learn ways to cope and get around with obstacles as they play.

If you have kids, one way to encourage them to play make believe games is to provide them with toys with which they can play their imagination around. And so even with the popularity of modern, electronic and virtual toys, playsets for children are still one of the best gifts you can give your children. And one of the most useful toys you can provide them are play kitchen accessories. Here are reasons you should be happy to spend money buying teeny weenie dining room, toaster, and smoothie sets for your little ones:

1.) They get kids’ attention and keep them occupied at times when you need to do household chores or attend to some matters and the least you would need are little ones wanting to do your work too.

2.) Children love to do what they see their parents are doing, such as cooking. Buying them kitchen toys gives them the opportunity to reenact family activities and get the feel of how it is to be grownups.

3.) They expand the possibilities with which children can enhance their imagination. Basically, playing in their kitchen playsets allows kids to reenact roles of family members; but adding cutlery, birthday cakes, and ice cream scoop sets to their miniature kitchens could spur them to create imaginary parties. Adding grocery items, fruit and vegetable sets to their kitchen ensemble could make them think of setting up imaginary markets to shop from like mom.

4.) They can serve as instructional materials. You can buy for them items that feature healthy food like fruits and vegetables, which you could use in a game that would teach them how to identify healthy foods.

5. Play kitchen accessories can help you discover your child’s interests. If she loves to play with baking sets in the kitchen, you get the idea that the child might want to become a chef someday. You can enhance it by providing the child items she could practice with for her future craft.

You can also encourage role playing games in your kids by participating in their games. Ask some questions related to what they are doing with their toys to make them feel you find their games fun and to tell them that you are interested in their activities. In the process, your kids might assign you a role in the game. If a child asks you to do pretend to eat the cookie she “baked,” go along with it. Aside from the mental, communication and social benefits that your children get from their play, you get an added advantage of spending quality bonding time with them.

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What is the best product to made stainless steel cutlery sparkle and look good as new?

Sweetie is on the right track. A cloth buffing wheel can be put on a bench grinder, or even a hand drill, but I’d go with the bench grinder if you can. You want both hands available to hold the knife when doing this. Holding a knife in one hand, and a hand drill in the other sounds bound for disaster.

You will also need abrasive "sticks", medium and fine. You turn on the buffer, rub these sticks on the cotton, and the abrasive gets on the cotton. Then start your polishing. Cotton buffers alone will clean your knives, but not polish them, which is what you are trying to do. Deep sharpening scratches take forever to take out, be forewarned.

Be careful to never run the sharp edge of the knives into the buffing wheel!