Tea is a popular beverage. Generally, after drinking tea, most people throw away the leftover tea dregs, but in fact, tea dregs have many amazing uses.

1. When cooking beef, besides adding various seasonings, you can also add a small cloth bag of ordinary tea leaves and cook them together with the beef. The beef will cook faster and have a fragrant taste.

2. After eating very spicy chili peppers, if your mouth is painfully spicy, first rinse your mouth with clean water, then chew a little dry tea leaves to eliminate the spicy taste in your mouth.

3. Boiling eggs with used tea leaves gives the eggs a delicious and fragrant taste.

4. After eating raw onions or garlic, chew some used tea leaves in your mouth for a while to eliminate the onion and garlic odor.

5. Soak meat in a 5% good tea infusion for a while before refrigerating. The preservation effect for meat is not only better, but it is also less prone to spoilage.

6. Quit smoking with tea: Those who need to use smoking to refresh themselves might try replacing cigarettes with tea. Oolong tea is most effective for quitting smoking.

7. Drinking a cup of tea while watching TV can effectively resist harmful rays emitted by the television picture tube. Tea can also inhibit the formation of nitrite, an inducer of gastric cancer.

8. If utensils have a fishy smell, boil used tea leaves in them for a few minutes to remove the odor.

9. Put a small amount of tea leaves in a thermos bottle, then pour in boiling water and cover the lid. The scale inside the bottle will gradually come off under the effect of the tea alkali. Repeat a few times to clean it thoroughly.

10. Bury fresh eggs in dry, clean tea dregs and store them in a cool, dry place. The eggs can be preserved for 2 to 3 months without spoiling.

11. Put dried used tea leaves in a nylon sock, then stuff it into smelly shoes. The tea can absorb moisture inside the shoes and remove odor.

12. Put 50 grams of jasmine tea in a gauze bag and place it in the refrigerator to remove odors. After one month, take the tea out and sun-dry it, then put it back in the gauze bag in the refrigerator. It can be reused many times with good deodorizing effect.

13. If cookware is stained with grease, rub it with wet tea dregs a few times to wash away the grease.

14. For painted doors, windows, furniture, or glass doors and windows stained with dust, wipe them with cold tea dregs to make them look especially bright and clean.

15. Wipe mirrors, glass, doors, windows, furniture, cardboard, and mud stains on leather shoes with tea dregs for good decontamination.

16. To remove oil stains from dark-colored clothes, rub them with used tea leaves.

17. New wooden furniture often has a pungent paint smell. Wipe it with tea a few times, and the peculiar smell will fade away, with better effect than using cleaning agents.

18. If brightly colored clothes have faded, rinsing them in tea juice can restore their original color.

19. Brew a small handful of tea leaves and use the tea water to wash woolen sweaters. It can also remove dirt and keep the color bright. However, after washing with tea water, rinse several times with warm water.

20. Dry and collect used tea leaves, put them in a bag to make an excellent pillow core. Sleeping on it is soft, fragrant, and helps reduce internal heat.

21. Dry and grind tea dregs into powder for storage. In winter, use them as tinder in a hand warmer; they burn long and easily.

22. Burn used tea leaves in toilets or poorly ventilated areas to eliminate bad odors.

23. Dry brewed tea leaves and light them on fire at dusk in summer to repel mosquitoes. It is harmless to humans and gives off a light fragrance.

24. Pour tea dregs into flowerpots to retain soil moisture. Mix them with soil and put them into flowerpots to serve as fertilizer for flowers.