Kitchen tips
 Use hot water for
washing dishes, but make certain you wear rubber gloves.
Brighten
discoloured enamel ware with a paste of salt and vinegar.
Use baking soda
to clean Corning-type dishes.
If you have
burned food on the bottom of a cooking pan, let sit overnight
with vinegar and Comet covering the burned area. It wipes out
easily the next day.
To give burned
food the brush off, let a mixture of half water and half vinegar
soak in the pan overnight. The burned food comes off easily the
next day with a light scouring.
When you scorch a
pan, try sprinkling dry baking soda over the scorch. Let stand
awhile and clean as usual.
To remove
burned-on food stuck to enamel saucepans, place a strong salt
solution in the pot and let soak several hours. Cover the pot,
place it on the stove and bring solution to a slow boil. This
usually removes the burned food safely.
A few drops of
bleach in lukewarm water will remove tea stains from cups and
teapot.
A paste of baking
soda and water will remove coffee and tea stains from porcelain
and china.
To clean a coffee
pot, use one denture tablet in cold water and soak overnight.
To remove coffee
film from thermos bottle, pour in one tbsp. raw rice and one cup
of warm water. Shake well and rinse.
To remove brown
grease marks from pots, chrome burner rings, etc. soak in
ammonia overnight.
To remove rust
from baking pans, dip a raw potato in any cleaning powder, then
scour the pans.
Rust can be
removed from a knife blade by plunging it into an onion and
leaving it there for an hour or so. Work blade back and forth a
few times and wash in soap and water.
To remove food
stuck to a casserole dish, fill with boiling water and add two
tbsp. baking soda or salt.
When purchasing
meat wrapped in plastic mesh, save the mesh. Wrap the mesh in a
ball, secure with a plastic garbage bag tie and use as a pot
scrubber.
To preserve
plastic pot scrubbers, place them in plastic mesh grape bags.
Twist and slip the mesh bag back to double it and tie a knot in
the end. The pot scrubbers will last twice
as long.
A small ball of
tinfoil works well to clean your pans inside and out.
Keep a toothbrush
in your kitchen. It’s great for cleaning small areas such as
beaters and graters.
Steel wool soap
pads into four pieces. It lasts much longer because using the
whole pad causes it to rust before the next use.
Cut an SOS pad
into four pieces. It lasts much longer because using the whole
pad causes it to rust before the next use.
Fill soap cups in
dishwasher only half full. This saves on dishwashing soap and
your glasses will not get water marked and scarred.
Use equal amounts
of dishwasher soap and baking soda in your dishwasher. Your
dishes and silver will be cleaner and so will the machine.
To remove scum
from glassware, add 1/2 cup bleach to wash cycle in dishwasher
and 1/2 cup vinegar to the rinse. The vinegar neutralizes the
bleach.
If your
dishwasher or dishes become stained from hard water, just run a
package of Tang orange juice crystals through the dishwasher
with the stained dishes in it. |
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