Here’s something not to do: pour milk into grape juice. It separates the milk into whey and curds. Tasty, though.
Why did you do it?
Why would you drink it?
Why ask why?
Distant relative of Little Miss Muffet?
Obviously Nano is closely concerned with current events in Northern Iraq. 
djm
Kitchen Tips?
I thought the topic title was a play on Rubbish Tips.
You know, the fact that most people have so much junk food
in their kitchen that you could call them Kitchen Tips.
I am, of course, not making a point about this.
I am just saying what I thought when I saw the title.
Baking soda makes a great cleaner. Mixed with vinegar, it can clean almost anything.
Eggs will dry out before they go bad when properly refrigerated.
Don’t store chemicals under the sink. It is a major cause of child poisoning, even when a baby lock is on the door. Instead, put them above the microwave and use the large area under the sink for something like your pots and pans.
If you get those teensy-tiny fruit flies (sometimes known as sink flies I believe) and don’t want to spray chemicals all over your kitchen, here’s a way to get rid of the buggers. Take an empty bottle with a somewhat small mouth opening (beer, soda, wine, etc). Pour something fermented into the bottom of the bottle like vinegar or cheap wine. Only about a 1/4". Pour some dish soap into it and swirl it around as well as possible without pouring it out. Cover it with a piece of saran wrap or Ziploc with a hole in it. Put it out where the flies are and leave overnight. Use more for larger infestations. You won’t have any of them left within a day or two. They go in looking for the fermented food but get caught in the dish soap and end up drowning.
Thought you’d catch me not paying attention with that one, did you? 
Which association I’m not getting at all; call me obtuse. But the junk food thing doesn’t apply to me, anyway, except seldom.
It’s not good for the teeth but it is great for the kitchen sink.
Everybody should be.
I thought you mixed baking soda with vinegar to make a volcano. Isn’t that what we did when we were little? You made a small mud mountain with a depression on the top and then put some soda and vinegar in and they reacted and foamed over the top like white lava. Anyway, I’ll give that a try. Anything that can clean almost anything is worth a shot and this sounds like it might be exciting. I’m going to try your fruitfly trap as well. We’ve got them all over because of having a lot of fruit on the counter to ripen—I noticed they were attracted to wine long ago and I tried to make a trap, but I couldn’t make them stay in there so I think the detergent (which kills earwigs too by the way) will do the trick. Cool!
I think this lost something in the translation. I have no idea what
“Rubbish Tips” would mean, other than “hold your breath when
emptying the dustbin”.
Rubbish tip = garbage dump
djm
Thank you, sir. All makes sense now.
Why is it that in an underpopulated English speaking corner of the nether regions of the planet we Australians know that a rubbish tip = garbage dump and that when Americans say trash they mean garbage = rubbish and that a tip is something we don’t do much in restaurants here and a tip is also a tidbit of advice and tip is also what a garbage truck=lorry does when it unloads its rubiish/trash/garbage at the dump/tip/recycle exchange?
Was that sentence too long? I am sorry. I will grant you leave to appeal …
When I want to communicate with someone I try to find common ground to enhance understanding between us. On the other hand, if I want to rub someone’s nose in it I stomp all over the difference.
djm
Ooh, speaking of stomping.
How to stomp grapes in your own kitchen.
Clean and disinfect your bathroom. Lay clean, bleached towels down from your bathroom to your kitchen, not stepping on them as you do.
Clean your feet and legs in the bathroom. Walk across the clean towels to the kitchen where you have a half-barrel of grapes waiting. Start stomping.
Sounds pretty gross to me, but a number of wines available from smaller wineries use just such a method! (Well, they use the living room so they can watch TV, but this was kitchen tips so I stayed on topic.)
So djm, you would have me say the above differently by replacing “rubbish tips” with “garbage dumps” and do you think that would help people UNDERSTAND why I thought what I did about the topic title?
If you’re going to make an obscure joke that depends on a colloquialism, you should be prepared for some people not understanding it. If they ask for clarification, it seems to me pretty arrogant to use this as a platform to start spouting off on others’ ignorance.
djm