Monsoon Kitchen Tips: In the monsoon season, you must also feel like eating hot pakodas and drinking tea. The aroma of pakodas coming from the kitchen must be captivating you, but this kitchen becomes in a bad condition during monsoon. Yes, the monsoon moisture (monsoon tips) has the biggest impact on the kitchen because here moisture comes in the boxes of flour, spices, rice and other food items (Moisture in kitchen ingredients), due to which most of the ingredients of the kitchen get spoiled. While dry spices get sealed and lumps form in them, flour, rice, gram flour and semolina also start getting spoiled and insects start growing in them. In such a situation, many remedies prove to be useless. Let us tell you how food items in the kitchen can be saved from getting spoiled due to monsoon moisture. How to prevent moisture kitchen ingredients in monsoon
First of all, it is important that you bring kitchen ingredients of the right quality. Bring only fresh things from the market. After this, the second most important thing is storage. Yes, the containers in which you keep kitchen items, keep the air and moisture out. Nowadays glass jars with rubber gaskets are available in the market. Try to keep your containers dark in color, so that the sunlight and light outside will not be able to spoil the things kept inside it.
Be it spices or rice and flour, they should always be stored in a dark and cool place. One should avoid keeping them in a hot or humid place. Many times things kept near gas, oven get spoiled quickly. Therefore, store these things in a dark and cool place away from hot places.
You must have seen silica gel packs in new water bottles. This gel pack absorbs the moisture of the things kept in the container and prevents it from getting spoiled. You can also buy silica gel packs from the market and put them in the container of your kitchen items. This will ensure that your food items do not spoil quickly in monsoon. If you want, you can also make small packets of salt and rice and put them in the container, because these things also work to absorb moisture.
Whenever you store something, first make the container completely dry and clean. The thing to be stored should also be completely dry and cold. Sometimes moisture comes into the container due to the food item being hot. Sometimes the container itself becomes wet and the thing kept in it also gets spoiled.
If you have packaged spices, you can also keep them in the fridge. Here they will remain fresh and safe for a long time. You can store pulses in an air tight polypack and keep it in the fridge.
