"Weak Sauce" Homesteading Hacks - What's Yours?

Leftovers hack:

Don't store leftovers in plastic if you can help it

Glass jars will last much longer and fresher even if they aren't properly water bathed, but I basically do water bath then and put in wide mouth pickle jars then store in fridge

Glass bowls with plastic lids don't last nearly as long

Stubborn pan cleanup hack:

Add clean water and let simmer on low heat

When loosened, either cool off and feed directly into dog, or, treat as broth and make a dogs dinner with it. The pan will be almost clean when finished

For cast iron pans that won't clean up readily using coarse salt and a rag, do the same thing, then wipe out the pan and place in kitchen oven for a while if the kitchen could use the heat

That turkey was a bit tough, not blaming the turkey though! I can over cook in a top rate roasting pan by a few hours.

After picking off the rest of the tender morsels, I simply made dog food broth and fished out the bones, a generous amount of rice and added more water so 60% full, and he is eating half of it now.

Being zero waste, the other half went in a Yupik banana chips ziplock bag in the fridge and he is now helping me clean up my roasting pan before it gets soaked in the dishsoap water before that gets grey watered for the poo loo flush (no heated outdoor compost toilet in winter)

Fridge hack:

Have you or someone ever crammed something in the fridge and inadvertently moved the temperature dial?

I just noticed while placing tomorrow's dog food in the fridge that I have another hack (see picture)
Somehow it has stayed there for over a decade