Here are some great tips from readers:

For crunchier coleslaw, cut a cabbage in half and soak it in salted water for an hour. Drain well and use.

If cookie dough gets gluey, resist the impulse to add extra flour – doing so will make your cookies tough. Instead, cool the dough in the fridge until it becomes firm, or roll it out between 2 pieces of waxed or parchment paper.

Pat Clement sent in this helpful tip:

I was burned with hot butter over most of my hand. I immediately cut a russet potato in slices, placed them over the burn and wrapped my hand with a kitchen towel. The starch in the potato stopped most of the blistering and eased the pain.

All solutions are to be used at the risk of the user.

Reena Nerbas is the author of “Household Solutions 1 with Substitutions & Household Solutions 2 with Kitchen Secrets.”

To learn more about Reena, click here.