Everyday Kitchen Cleaning Tips From the Pros

Is not it atrocious when your silverware or your knives have spots of rust on them? Do not throw them away because you can easily get rid of rust with this natural solution: one part lemon juice for one part hot water.

Not only does a slow cooker add nice smells to the house, but it also cleans itself very easily!

Simply use a little bit of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. Magic!

Don’t pay for Swiffers when you can easily use your socks. When you’re finished, pop them into the washing machine!

To clean your microwave, put 1 cup of water in a bowl with some baking soda in the microwave until it boils. This will eliminate odors and help clean your appliances.

Make your garbage smell better by adding some lemon slices in your garbage can. Do this right before you have guests over.

• Fill the pan with water and add a cup of white vinegar.
• Bring it to a boil, remove it from the heat and add 2 tablespoons of baking soda.
• Let it sit for a few seconds so the mixture cools down.
• Wash your pan normally.

• In a bowl, mix some baking soda and water.
• Soak your sponge with your mixture and scrub the grease stains.
• Spray the area you are cleaning with vinegar.
• Scrub the remaining stains with your sponge.

This might seem too simple, but using soapy water to clean your melamine cupboards works very well. It is affordable and gentle so why not try it?

If you can’t find your scrubbing brush or you forgot to buy a new one, you can wash your dish with aluminum foil. All you have to do is crumple the paper into a ball.

Here is how to naturally clean your sink to get rid of stinky odors. You will need:

• 130 ml of fresh lemon juice.
• 80 g of baking soda.

You can also use some vinegar.

Steps:

•  Heat up the lemon juice.
• Add, little by little, the baking soda and let it dissolve in the lemon juice. Your mixture will start to foam.
• Mix it before pouring it in the sink pipes.
• Leave it for 10 minutes. Rince with hot water.

You can eliminate grease stains on your kitchen floor without scrubbing for a whole afternoon. All you need to use is soda crystals and a Marseille soap.

• Wear gloves.
• Add 3 tablespoons of soda crystals in a bucket.
• Add to the bucket a coffee spoon of shavings of Marseille soap.
• Dilute your ingredients with a liter of hot water and mix them well.
• Wash your floors with this mixture and a dishcloth.
• Let dry without rinsing.

If you are looking to disinfect and clean your kitchen counters or your sink, here is how to make a homemade disinfectant cleaner spray.

• In a spray bottle, pour 1/3 white vinegar and 2/3 water (don’t fill it up to the top).
• Add 10 drops of lemon, lavender or eucalyptus essential oil.
• Add 1 tablespoon of dishwashing soap or all-purpose cleaner.
• Close your spray bottle and mix the ingredients by shaking the bottle.
• Use the spray with a cleaning cloth.

You can clean your oven range hood with some hot water and some baking soda.

• Add some hot water to a bucket.
• Put the range hood filter in the bucket.
• Add some baking soda on the filter and let it soak for 1 hour (do the same for the other side).
• Scrub the filter and rinse it.

Wooden cutting boards are super functional and gorgeous, but cleaning them can be a challenge since you can not put them in the dishwasher like other cutting boards. Clean them easily by using products you may already have in your kitchen, such as baking soda, water, lemon, vinegar, and salt.

Simply put a foil on the cooking sheet to prevent it from getting dirty. Every week, simply change the foil and say goodbye to scrubbing!

Sources:

• She Tried What
• Reader’s Digest
• 5-Minute Crafts
• Clark
• 10-Trucs.com
• Grands-mamans.com
• Good Housekeeping
• comment-economiser.fr