Did you know cooking water can be reused?
Still better than throwing them straight down the drain, right?
You can reuse the cooking water for pasta, rice, potatoes, vegetables and eggs.
Your cooking water has many often unsuspected advantages. You just need to know how to exploit them!
So, if you want to consume smart and reduce all forms of waste...
...find out how to use all the cooking water from your food again:
Like everyone else, once our food is cooked, the first thing we do is throw away the cooking water.
However, these waters turn out to be precious since they contain a concentrate of nutrients, vitamins and minerals from boiled foods.
So, make sure now to put a container under the colander to collect this water impregnated with vitamins from cooked vegetables or starchy carbohydrates!
Did you know that many vitamins and minerals are present in rice cooking water?
Rice is naturally saturated with B vitamins, folic acid, iron, potassium, zinc and even magnesium.
By cooking in water, it releases all these nutrients (more white rice than brown rice for that matter).
Thus, you will find all these benefits in the cooking water so you might as well reuse them.
Are you prone to some gastrointestinal disorders such as vomiting, diarrhea or nausea?
The rice cooking water is here to solve these problems.
Saturated in fiber and nutrients, this water prevents or solves constipation problems by promoting digestion and limiting bloating.
Rice cooking water can be drunk 1-3 times a day.
Simply add sugar or honey to sweeten the taste.
You've probably never heard of it, but rice cooking water contains a lot of para-aminobenzoic acid.
Behind this scholarly name hides above all a formidable antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that contributes to our internal and external well-being, just that!
For example in case of fever, this cooking water allows you to better control the temperature of your body.
To benefit from its benefits, drink the water 1 to 3 times a day, adding or not adding sugar according to your taste.
Be aware that rice cooking water is ideal for pregnant women or breastfeeding their newborns.
Its consumption makes it possible to improve and energize the production of breast milk.
So for all budding or future moms, don't hesitate to take up to 8 cups of this beverage a day.
Rice cooking water has a lot of cosmetic benefits!
If you apply it warm to your skin, it will, for example, soften the tissues and moisturize the epidermis.
This water is also full of antioxidant acids that soothe irritations, slow down the aging of cells and help to heal better.
You can also stop buying your usual toners, because the starch in this water naturally tones your skin.
Finally, this cooking water allows you to contain the appearance of blackheads, because it helps to firm the pores.
We end with a grandmother's trick that will do your hair a lot of good.
Rice cooking water, applied warm to the hair for a few minutes, softens and makes your mane shine.
Thanks to the starch contained in this water, no more rebellious and recalcitrant hair...
...and make way for hair that's easy to comb, very silky and smooth!
By the way, do you know that in Korea, this trick is widely used by women when rinsing their hair? Check out the trick here.
Don't throw away the pasta water (salted or not)!
Its properties are valuable and can be reused for many useful things. Indeed, it is saturated with carbohydrates, B vitamins, starch and magnesium.
Are you looking for a simple, effective and above all natural way to get rid of weeds and moss infesting your garden?
Use the salty cooking water from your pasta!
The starch content of this water is the sworn enemy of plants.
As for salt, it burns the roots of weeds.
For a perfect result, pour the lukewarm water at the base of the weeds, being careful not to get it on the other plants.
Also be careful not to have too much salt, because if it kills weeds, salt can also destroy all the biodiversity in your garden.
Consuming pulses or seeds requires softening them first.
To tenderize your broad beans, beans, lentils, chickpeas or even flax seeds, soak them overnight in the pasta cooking water.
This will make them tender and taste much better.
Not to mention the fact that your pulses will also be more digestible.
A little cook's tip that you will let me know about!
When you drain your pasta, keep about 25 cl of cooking water and dilute it in your pesto sauce.
This combination is ideal for giving the perfect taste to your pasta sauce.
Did you know that steaming your vegetables preserves all the vitamins of your early vegetables?
And to do so, you don't necessarily need to have a steam cooker.
The pasta cooking water will do just fine!
Either by reusing it directly, or by putting a steamer basket directly into the pot of hot water.
Want to make your soup preparation even easier and better?
So apply this grandmother's recipe.
Instead of boiling tap water to make the base of your soup or broth, re-use the hot cooking water for your pasta.
All you have to do is put some vegetables in it and you're done.
As you may know, pasta contains starch.
And starch, beyond the carbohydrates it provides, also has detergent properties.
The pasta cooking water therefore allows you to thoroughly clean your dishes, pots and pans, even on the most encrusted stains.
It is therefore a natural product that can replace your usual chemical products.
Do you want to fully relax after a hard day's work?
Do it with a good foot bath, but not with running water!
Instead, put the lukewarm cooking water for your pasta in a basin and immerse your feet in it.
The minerals contained in this water help relieve and deflate the feet while relaxing you as much as possible.
If your hair is broken or damaged, pour the lukewarm pasta cooking water over it and massage gently.
Leave for 10 minutes and then rinse with your daily shampoo.
To discover: What To Do With Pasta Cooking Water? 16 Surprising Uses!
The cooking water from your vegetables contains many vitamins and minerals.
Its reuse is therefore ideal, especially when it comes to organic vegetables!
Because if this is not the case, your vegetables may contain a lot of pesticides that can be harmful both for gardening and for cosmetics.
Many minerals are present in the cooking water of vegetables.
So it's a godsend for your garden plants!
By watering the soil with this cooled water, you offer them a perfectly natural fertilizer.
This water will fertilize all your green spaces without spending a penny.
However, watering must be done with non-salty water!
In addition to being able to be used for watering, vegetable cooking water (cold and unsalted) is an excellent natural fertilizer.
The vitamins and minerals contained in this water promote the fertilization of the soil in your garden.
You can even lightly water your compost pile.
Bouillon cubes are widely used in cooking.
It gives flavor to our dishes, while being very easy to use.
Be aware, however, that these little magic squares are full of chemicals...
...and they also contain a huge amount of salt.
It is therefore recommended to make your own bouillon cubes.
For this, nothing better than reusing the cooking water from the vegetables to give a good taste and keep the nutrients.
Here is Grandma's recipe for making bouillon cubes.
Peel 3 cloves of garlic and 2 onions to cut into brunoise.
Wash 3 carrots, 1 leek, 1 bunch of parsley and 3 stalks of celery to also cut into brunoise.
Put all your ingredients in 1 liter of boiling water and simmer for 1 hour in a covered pot, pressing the vegetables from time to time to extract the juice.
Then strain the broth obtained with a fine strainer or Chinese strainer and fill ice cubes with it.
Leave to cool before placing everything in your freezer.
You then get delicious homemade bouillon cubes, full of flavor and without additives. You can even reuse vegetables in soup.
Are you prone to some digestive problems?
Do not hesitate to use the cooking water of your vegetables.
Indeed, it is ideal for facilitating transit and rehydrating your body.
If you have diarrhoea, for example, drink the cooking water to prevent dehydration from excess stool.
If you are constipated or bloated, consume cooking water to hydrate and facilitate salts.
A little something extra for gourmets. Add garlic, cloves or ginger to flavor your broth.
You know it now, the cooking water for your vegetables is full of vitamins and minerals that are good for our health.
The absorption of this water allows, among other things, to remineralize our body.
So to make a few cures of this precious broth, nothing could be simpler.
Whenever you have the opportunity, store vegetable cooking water in glass bottles.
Keep your beverage for a maximum of 1 week in your fridge and consume it daily.
Stains on delicate textiles and clothing (wool, silk, cotton) are by definition difficult to remove.
Luckily, there is an ultra-effective grandmother's trick to save the day.
And it's still the cooking water, this time white beans, which helps you in this area. This mixture is very effective against the most encrusted stains.
Just pass the cooking water on the stain to make it disappear.
Be careful, however, not to use salt water, as this will damage the clothes.
Our black clothes, with use, washing and wear, lose their luster.
To restore their original color, take the cooking water from fresh spinach as washing water.
You will be amazed with the result.
To discover: My Vegetable Cooking Water, An Ecological Natural Fertilizer.
At 95%, the eggshell is made of minerals.
Once the eggs are put in boiling water, these minerals dissolve in the cooking water.
Do not throw away this water, because it is very precious!
If you're a little sluggish and feeling tired...
...nothing better than sipping the cooking water from your eggs to replenish your energy.
Yup, this water is packed with minerals and protein, giving you the boost you need.
Simply let the cooking water cool down and pour it into glass bottles.
Place your energy drink in the fridge and consume it within 1 week maximum.
One of the little-known properties of egg cooking water is that it helps fertilize your soil.
Its properties, composed of calcium and many other nutrients, are powerful fertilizing resources for your soils and plants.
In addition, nothing could be simpler to use.
You just have to keep the water cool and water your indoor and outdoor plants once a week.
To discover: What To Do With Egg Cooking Water? Discover the Tip.
If there is a cooking water full of nutrients, it is that of potatoes!
Calcium, manganese, zinc, iron, potassium, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, starch...
The list is as long as the many uses that can be made of this cooking water.
Yes yes, you read that right. Potato cooking water is a remarkable degreaser!
It restores the original appearance of your tiles in no time.
Plus, it's super easy to use. Pour the still hot cooking water directly onto your floor and polish with your push broom.
After waiting about ten minutes for the water to take effect, rinse your floor with cold tap water and a mop.
Here too, the cooking water from the potatoes is quite useful, this time for polishing your silverware and your pewter objects.
Pour your boiled water into a large bowl, immerse your cutlery and objects in it for a few minutes and then wipe them dry.
Alternatively, wet a cloth with this cooking water and simply clean your utensils.
And you know what, potato cooking water is also effective on stainless steel.
Potato cooking water is full of starch. It is therefore a powerful natural weedkiller.
You only have to spread the still hot water on the areas to be weeded to effectively treat garden weeds.
Be careful, however, of 2 things:make sure you do not pour the water on healthy areas and that it is not too salty (this is harmful to micro-organisms).
Tired of having white traces of limestone on your dishes?
Clean your utensils with the cooking water from the potatoes.
Indeed, this water is a powerful descaler!
Pass this water also on your faucets to remove all these unbearable traces of limestone.
A great stain remover, the cooking water from the potatoes removes stains embedded in your carpets.
Get stains out of your carpets to remove stains.
Try it, you will be amazed at its effectiveness.
Starch and soluble niacin, contained in the cooking water of potatoes, are beneficial nutrients for the hair.
Starch helps fight against hair loss or hair that is too dry.
For its part, niacin nourishes in depth and exerts an antioxidant action, thus reducing ailments.
To obtain all the benefits of this water, pass it twice a week on the hair at medium temperature. They then regain radiance, vigor and voluptuousness.
Are you looking for an effective way to soothe and relax your feet after a long day at work or an endless walk?
So use the cooking water from the potatoes!
Why ? Because it is soothing and terribly relaxing.
To discover: 4 Potato Cooking Water Uses Everyone Should Know.
If you consume red meat or poultry meat, know that the cooking water associated with these meat products also has value!
It contains many properties that you can re-use for your greater good.
Don't throw away the bones or carcasses of your meats too quickly!
Instead, put them in a casserole to brown them for a few hours in water accompanied by a few herbs (bouquet garni, garlic, onion, etc.).
In this way, you get a precious broth (to be stored in glass bottles and stored in the refrigerator).
This cooking water is a perfect blend of nutrients allowing your body to remineralize, hydrate or stimulate the immune system.
It contains many minerals very good for health such as calcium, phosphorus or magnesium (and many others).
Homemade bouillon cubes are much better for our health than store-bought ones (they are full of additives with large amounts of salt).
So use the cooking water from your meat carcasses to make delicious bouillon cubes yourself by simply following this grandmother's recipe.
Peel 2 onions and dice 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 leek and 1 stalk of celery.
In a casserole dish, put a chicken carcass, adding all the vegetables, a washed bouquet garni, pepper and a pinch of salt with 1.5 liters of water.
Bring your mixture to a boil, simmer for 1 hour and strain the broth with a fine strainer or strainer.
Leave to cool in the refrigerator and, a few hours later, remove the layer of hardened fat to obtain the defatted broth.
All you have to do is fill ice cube trays with it. If the broth remains solid, reheat it a bit, let it cool and put your ice cube trays in the freezer.
