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Kitchen scraps typically end up in the garbage. However, these ways of reusing them are so genius, you'll be amazed.

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Creative Ways To Use Your Kitchen Scraps Include:

10. Turn Corn Cobs Into Savory Cream or Broth
Leftover corn cobs can turn a pot of water into a deliciously savory-sweet corn stock, or a pot of heavy cream into a rich corn cream that you can add to other recipes, or whip up nice and thick into a savory-sweet whipped cream to top desserts.

9. Use Dryer Lint to Kickstart a Grill or Light a Fire
Dryer lint is incredibly flammable  which makes it perfect as a fire starter. Grab an old egg carton and some candle stubs, and you have a waterproof fire starter that you can take with you anywhere. Dryer lint is exceptional at cleaning up oil—whether it’s cooking oil or oil in the garage.

8. Grow Fresh Vegetables
Grow completely new, free, near-infinite food. Okay, that may be promising a bit much, but it’s absolutely possible to grow leafy greens like romaine and allums like spring onions from the tidbits you may otherwise trim off and throw away.

7. Use Banana Peels to Infuse Flavor into Hot Cocoa

You can  make use of them in your next batch of hot cocoa. Simmering your cocoa with a banana peel adds that distinctly banana-y, nutty flavor to your cocoa.
6. Transform Vegetable Peels and Ends into Pressure-Cooked Stock

Instead of letting the whole thing simmer all day and reduce slowly, you can whip up a quick broth in minutes that you can use almost immediately, from scraps you have left over from cooking whatever else you were planning to make that night.

5. Keep Cheese Rinds for a Flavor Boost in Soup or Broth
Those rinds offer a huge flavor boost if you toss them in with a soups or stews, and if there’s any rind left after it’s given up every last bit of that flavor to your dish, it’ll likely be smooth and spreadable and a perfect side to accompany it.

4. Deodorize Your Dishwasher or Fridge With Citrus Peels
The next time you peel an orange, eat a grapefruit, squeeze the juice from a lemon or lime, or accumulate just about any other type of citrus peel, consider using them to deodorize your dishwasher.  Consider putting those peels to work in your fridge.

3. Use Herb Stems to Infuse Oil or Vinegar, or Grill them for an Aromatic Punch

They’re perfect to infuse oil, vinegar, or even stock with a punch of herbaceous flavor.If that’s not really up your alley, grab those stems the next time you hit the grill and toss them on with the rest of your food.

2. Turn Edible Peels and Scraps into Sauces, Spreads,  Snacks
Consider drying them out and seasoning them up to make apple crisps, or using those peels to flavor bourbon. You can do the same with other veggie peels, making a quick and crispy snack with potato peels, carrot peels, parsnip peels, and more.

1. Use Coffee Grounds as a Household Cleaner

You can use coffee grounds to scrub dishes clean or even kill fleas, get rid of annoying ants, deodorize and scrub out drains or even garbage disposals and to make cleaning the fireplace easy. Since they’re abrasive, they’re perfect for cleaning up sticky tools and other items that have adhesive or other goop on them.

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These ten creative ways to use your kitchen scraps just might mean you toss a lot less into the trash. Have you done any of these things with your kitchen scraps before?

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Article Source: Life Hacker