Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures by Joey Green

Some of you might recall the name Joey Green. He's a life hack expert who has been helping people save money by using everyday household items in some very practical and often unusual ways. I seem to remember at some point he went to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and got Jay to smother peanut all over his iconic chin and use it as shaving cream. 

Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures is a book in which Joey offers tips on how to cure and treat a variety of ailments using everyday ingredients like olive oil and black tea bags. Not all of his offered cures are edible. Like you can use WD-40 to help get a stuck ring off your finger or use panty hose, filled with oatmeal, as a soothing exfoliant if you have the chicken pox or shingles. Being from 2002, I'm not sure if all of the brand names Green recommends using are still in existence. Do they still make Star olive oil? 

The book can borderline on the repetitive. Let's be honest; there's only so many ways that you can tell readers how to use a Ziploc bag filled with ice as an ice pack. To combat the redundancy, Green includes factoids in each chapter about the ailments covered within. Some chapters include articles on the history of some of the household name products recommended by the author. There's also tips about when to give up on the home remedies and seek professional medical treatment. 

Not all of the suggestions seem practical or even safe. Green's chapter on sex has some ideas that border on risky. No way in the world am I ever going to use one of my credit cards as a toothpick! Even if I was to Purell and Clorox the heck out of it before hand... Google claims that some of Joey Green's suggestions are jokes. If that's true, I'm just not sure if some readers these days are able to weed out the hoaxes from tried and true cures.

I got this book at a consignment store. Good price. The shop had a couple other of Joey Green's books. Based on my experience with this read, I wouldn't mind a trip back to get them. Now that I understand the formula of his writing and know that not every suggestion is a serious one, I should have a better experience.

Worth Consuming!

Rating:7 out of 10 stars.