10 Best Things You Can Do With a Multicooker Without Food
A multicooker (or multicooker) is a great tool for self-cooking, but the gentle, slow heating process can also be used for other non-food items. For example, these ten things.
Many of these projects are ingenious, and you may need a dedicated second multicooker (possibly purchased at a garage sale) for these purposes, such as making soap. Other times, you can simply take out the multicooker to cook, clean, and then use it for slow cooking. It’s a remarkably versatile tool.
10. Make soap
Homemade soaps are great because you can personalize your soap bars by choosing the scent and ingredients you want. This project only requires water, olive oil, coconut oil and lye (which must be handled with care). However, an hour in a slow cooker, and you made your own soap.
9. Stripe paint
Instead of using toxic chemicals to remove paint, take out your old and unused multicooker and let it rinse the paint off the object overnight .
8. Dyeing of fabric or yarn.
Dyeing fibers in a multicooker is easy because you don’t need to keep an eye on it. The multicooker acts as a container for the dye bath and as a heat source, helping fabrics and other materials to absorb the dye. Knit Picks offers instructions for dyeing yarns, while folk artist Susan Hemann shows us how to dye fabric . (I heard that you can also dye paper in your multicooker, but I couldn’t find a guide for that. Feel free to experiment!)
7. Prepare a potpourri.
If you don’t have one of these little potpourri stews, your slow cooker can replace that job. After all, multicooker is known for creating a heady smell when boiling food. This time, fill your multicooker with spices, fruits, and other ingredients that will flavor your home throughout the day. It seems especially suitable for the holidays, as in this combination of clove, orange, allspice and cinnamon in Heathers Dish .
6. Make candles
Homemade candles are a great gift, but waxing can be painful. However, if you use a slow cooker, you will avoid the mess of double boiling and pouring. Simply place the containers in the multicooker, fill them with bits of wax, and let the multicooker do its job . You can also combine crayons in pieces in the same way.
5. Knead the plasticine.
This is for the kids … or maybe for yourself. You can coat plasticine in the same way as making bread in a multicooker. Repeat Crafter Me has instructions for this. You only need a few items in the pantry and about half an hour of cooking time.
4. Refresh (or remove odor) from the room.
Baking powder is a powerful weapon against bad odors and generally stale odors. Put it in a multicooker with a little water and you can freshen up any room in your house , even a musty basement.
3. Use it as a humidifier.
An old multicooker filled with water can add moisture to the air, just like a rice cooker does not require a special humidifier. As the Crock Pot Recipe Exchange explains, fill the pot three-quarters up with water and let it heat up high. Then remove the covers and let the moisture escape into the air.
2. Pure jewelry
If your decorations are tarnished or just need to be cleaned, the multicooker is your friend. Make your own all-natural jewelry brine (an acidic solution that removes oxidation and flux from brazed metal) and clean your jewelry in a multicooker following Artisan Life’s directions . Clinton Kelly suggests a simpler formula that includes only white vinegar and salt for cleaning jewelry in a multicooker.
1. Clean the bones / skulls of the animals.
Finally, if you have animal skulls or bones that need to be cleaned, slow simmering in a slow cooker is better than boiling. We’re serious! Our own Vitals writer Beth Skorecki shared this advice with us and I couldn’t help but make it the best advice. Many people use animal skulls for decoration or artwork (see Georgia O’Keeffe, photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Studio 360 ).
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