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Cocoa without lumps and much better than with instant powder
April 2024

Cocoa without lumps and much better than with instant powder

Instant powder (Nesquick and whatever they are called) has nothing in common with Grandma's cocoa: too much sugar, cocoa almost as a "trace element", the rest are artificial flavors. The drink is...

How the carbonic acid stays longer in the opened bottle
April 2024

How the carbonic acid stays longer in the opened bottle

You started a bottle of sparkling water and now you want to put it in the fridge. Although you close the bottle as tight as possible, the taste of the bottle the next day is pale, because a lot of...

Get tea faster to drinking temperature
April 2024

Get tea faster to drinking temperature

Who does not know it? We are looking forward to a nice tea, which has pulled well, takes with pleasure a sip and ouch! Tongue burned. It always annoys me that the tea takes forever to cool down. Put...

Weaken the carbonic acid content of the mineral water
April 2024

Weaken the carbonic acid content of the mineral water

If you pour a glass of mineral water and you can not drink it immediately, because it burns too much in your throat, you should add a pinch of soda. Do not stir! The carbon dioxide is then...

Homemade filter for coffee
April 2024

Homemade filter for coffee

Female and male coffee fans beware! I discovered a brilliant permanent filter. Men just have to turn to a nice lady ... You need the foot of a women's stockings / tights. If a stocking is broken,...

More freshly squeezed orange juice
April 2024

More freshly squeezed orange juice

If the orange is bathed in hot water for about 10 minutes, you get almost twice the amount of squeezed juice! Also goes with lemons. But only unspritzt fruits take, because the hot water, the...

Top up, refill and fill in Tassimo discs
April 2024

Top up, refill and fill in Tassimo discs

To fill Tassimo T-disks, there is a very simple trick. It does not matter what one fills the discs, the main thing is that it is a saturated mixture. You can also take pure milk, but since the...

The right drink
April 2024

The right drink

One rule says: Light drinks to light meat, dark drinks to dark meat, light drinks to light foods and heavy drinks to heavy foods. And also: first white, then rosé or red wines. However, the rules are...

Bottle in flight hand luggage: that's how it works
April 2024

Bottle in flight hand luggage: that's how it works

If you do not want to give up your own drink in hand luggage when traveling by air, there is a trick: Take the EMPTY bottle and fill it up at the tap AFTER the security check on the toilet! In...

Mulled wine
April 2024

Mulled wine "spritzer"

For information: a Schorle is a Swabian wine, half mixed with soda. Soon the mulled wine time starts again, increasingly at the Christmas markets. But since the mulled wine a few turns, I once asked...