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Ziplock bags are undoubtedly one of the most practical and versatile items in your kitchen!
Aside for the well-known practice of storing snacks, here are 10 handy uses for various size ziplock bags in your kitchen:
- Mini Garbage Bag – Place a large ziplock bag inside a bowl and while working at the counter use the bowl as a handy trash pail for the egg shells and peels. Once you’re done, snap shut the bag’s seal and toss directly into your garbage pail.
- Toss Salad – Fun and simple way to get the dressing and salad entirely mixed is by tossing it in a strong sealed ziplock bag.
- Crushing food – No mess when you smash cookies, nuts or graham crackers sealed ziplock bag for a pie crust or a cake topping. (4 Mil thickness is recommended).
Leaky Vase – Your favorite vase is cracked and leaking. Toss it? Or not…. Line the vase with a plastic bag, fill it with water and add your flowers. (This may work better using the open-end poly bags.) - Knead Dough – Position the dough in the ziplock bag (spray it with Pam first if it’s too sticky) seal it and then knead the dough, keeping your hands clean.
- Funnel – Snip the corner off a ziplock bag for easy liquid transfer into a narrow opening of a container or bottle.
- Storage – Once open, rice, cereals and grains can be stored in a ziplock bag. It prevents spilling and protection from crawling ants.
- Freeze Soups – By stacking ziplock bags rather than using bulky containers, you are definitely saving on space!
- Marinating – Combine the marinade ingredients, add your chicken, meat or fish and refrigerate. Mess free by using a handy ziplock bag!
- Pastry Bag – Fill a ziplock bag with frosting, trim the tip and use it to pipe out the frosting.
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When using a sealing machine to seal raw meat, the suction pulls the liquid out and up to the seal. This makes for a bad seal and dry meat. Put your meat in a ziplock bag first, (don't seal it), and place into the sealing bag sideways. The juices stay in the meat and the air is successfully pulled out.
I use them to store my jewelry available for sale; especially helpful for copper with an anti-tarnish tab.
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If you got moisture into your cell phone take a ziplock bag fill with uncooked rice and place your phone in it. Keep the bag closed for at least 12 hours.
Use them to organize that junk drawer that everyone has. Organize those batteries, chip clips, pencils/pens, etc... Makes it a lot easier to find things in that jungle!
Going away with a family of kids? pack each set of clothes separately per kid/per day.
Use it to layer food in pans. Put one or two bags in between each layer of food - easier than saran wrap which is harder to work with and doesn't stay in place easily.
LOVE the sandwich bags! In addition to all the kitchen uses, they're perfect for organizing and storing the threads and fibers I use for needlework. After labeling the bags with a Sharpie, I line up the bags in plastic shoeboxes and can easily find whatever I need. They're also super for keeping my needlework tools - needles, embroidery scissors, tacks, laying tools, small ruler, magnets/needle minders together and organized for taking to workshops and seminars. Unlike regular supermarket sandwich bags, these are sturdier and hold up extremely well (especially when storing and toting scissors). What can I say except I LOVE these bags!!
I use them for cat and dog business, they seal, i like that.
Zip lock bags are not only for the kitchen! I use them as deodorizers. Just punch holes in the bags, fill with cedar chips and place in closets; fill with potpourri and put in dresser drawers. Quick and easy and not expensive.
I use sandwich bags to hold individual craft & miniature basket kits for classes I teach. When we travel, I bag daily food for our dog. Sandwich bags make good little pastry bags by snipping a corner and twisting the bag as you go.
You can also create first aid kits using small bags. I stack them, 3 going left and 3 going right. Overlap the bottoms about a half inch and sew them across the center of a rectangular pot holder. Fold the pot holder in half and sew a button on the non-loop side so the loop becomes a closure. Fill with band-aids, alcohol wipes, single pack medicines like Tylenol, Pepto and Immodium, swabs, safety pins, etc. These have been a hit as gifts for car or suitcase.