Cleaning Tips and Tricks – Kitchen

General Hints

  1. Food sticking – fill half-way with water, add 1/4 cup dishwasher detergent, baking soda, or Spic and Span, bring to boil, turn stove off, let stand for 1 hour then rub with
    stainless steel pad.
  2. Food stains – soak in white vinegar for 30 minutes, rinse in hot, soapy water. Aluminum, glass or porcelain – boil 1/4 cup white vinegar with 2 cups water, wash in hot soapy water.
  3. Scorched spots – rub with ammonia

Aluminum

  1. Pour in vinegar to cover stain, bring to boil, simmer for 5 minutes, turn stove off and let stand for 1 hour, then wash.
  2. or boil 2-3 tablespoons cream of tartar, lemon juice, bicarbonate of soda or vinegar to 1 litre of water for 5 to 10 minutes, and scrub lightly with a SOS pad.

Brass

  1. Pour worcestershire sauce onto stain, scrub with SOS pad, rinse and wipe dry.
  2. Rub with paste of lemon juice or vinegar and salt

Copper

  1. Polishing – Pour ketchup over copper, scrub with SOS pad or dip 1/2 lemon in salt, rub over copper and rinse
  2. Stains – Put toothpaste on SOS pad and scrub. Apply solution of 1 litre water and teaspoon ammonia. Boil in 1 litre water with 1/2 cup each of salt and vinegar

Enamelware

  1. Boil enough water to cover bottom, add 3 tablespoons baking soda, let stand for 1 hour then wash

Iron

  1. Boil salt and vinegar to loosen burned-on food, wash, coat with grease

Non-stick [teflon]

  1. Add 1/8 cup dishwashing soap to water to cover stain, bring to boil, simmer for 15 minutes, wash, rinse, and wipe dry2. -Stains – simmer for 5-10 minutes a mixture of 1 tablespoon liquid bleach, 1 tablespoon vinegar with 1 cup water, wash, rinse then dry. Alternative – boil 2 tablespoons of baking soda and one cup of water for 15 minutes, rinse, the dry coat with vegetable oil.

Stainless Steel

  1. Pour white vinegar on stain, scrub with SOS pad
  2. Burned-on food – rub with baking soda or past made of ammonia, water and mild, non-chlorinated scouring powder.

Pie, Cake and Bread Pans

  1. Run raw onion over stain then rinse.
  2. or rub raw potato dipped in cleanser over rust stain then rinse.

Glass, Pyrex, Corningware

  1. Soak in hot, soapy water with a little baking soda for 20 minutes then scrub with an SOS pad
  2. or spray badly stained area with over cleaner, let stand overnight in a sealed garbage bag, open bag outdoors,rinse cleaner off and wash.