Cleaning Tips and Tricks – Small Appliances

Blender

  1. Add a few drops of liquid dish soap to blender half-full of water, turn on for a few seconds, rinse thoroughly, turn up-side-down to dry

Garbage Disposal

  1. Turn on pour in 1 cup of vinegar turn on cold water for a few minutes
  2. Grind up orange or lemon peel with hot running water or ice cubes sprinkled with scouring powder without water

Electric Frying Pan Exterior

  1. Place pan upside-down inside a plastic garbage bag, pour ammonia on back of pan, place terry-cloth rag on top, saturate rag with more ammonia, seal bag, soak for 8 hours, remove bag, run pan under hot water and scrub with an SOS pad if necessary.

Toaster Oven

  1. Baked on dirt – mix 1/8 cup Spic and Span or 1 tablespoon ammonia to 2 litres hot water, scrub with SOS pad, rinse and wipe dry

Microwave

  1. Clean with sponge dipped in solution of water and baking soda
  2. Cover spills with damp paper towel, turn on high for 10 seconds, wipe when cool.