Dirty Talk

If you are having trouble with fruit flies in your kitchen just take a coffee mug and put about one quarter of a cup of cider vinegar and a tablespoon of dish soap into it. Vinegar first and let the dish soap settle not mix into it. Leave this out for 24 hours and all of the fruit flies wil have come for vinegar and stayed because of the soap :)

Mildew and food particles tend to settle in the bottom of the silverware holder attached to my plastic dish drainer. Just adding a few drops of bleach directly to the bottom of the silverware container after cleaning it has prevented ant brown mildew build-up.

This one is simple and effective. I clean my bathroom by adding a small amount of bleach and dish detergent to a bucket of warm water. I sprinkle baking soda on surfaces and wipe them down with the solution in the bucket. My tip is this: I dunk the hem of the plastic shower curtain liner into the bucket before starting. The solution settles into the heam and prevents mildew. I also do the same with the plastic window curtain which is inside the tub enclosure.

Heavily Iced Freezer: Empty & Unplug Freezer. Sit a pan of HOT water inside the freezer. Before you begin scrubbing, Throw a hand towel in the pan. Wring out the thoroughly wet hand towel around the perimeter top edge of the freezer. Use a PLASTIC putty knife to separate the ice from the wall of the freezer. Ice sheets pop off the wall. Proceed to clean with baking soda & dish soap. Freezer cleaned in under 5 minutes! Now... to get the foods organized... hummmm.

I add a cap full of bleach, and a drop of dish washing liquid to hot water in my sink and soak my dishcloths over night. In the morning the cloths are clean and sanitized and the sink is sparkling and disinfected.

Sometimes when the drip pans under the heating elements get baked on greasy from neglect ( and my husband) I will boil them in very hot water (no soap) for about 10 minutes, using tongs to take them out, I will then wash them with dish detergent. It saves a lot of scrubbing. Love you gals!

To keep a handle on candle wax, when it comes to lighting candles for the dinner table, I place four or five votives in a small dish, and pour a little bit of water into the dish. The water chills the dripped wax, and all you have to do is scoop it out and drain out the water.

To remove scorched on or burnt on food from your pots and pans add enough water to cover the burnt on pieces and regular dish soap. Boil for approximately 1 minute and with a little effort the food disappears.

I live in an apartment, that has really inefficient old appliances. The worst being the dishwasher. If I leave just the littlest bit of food on a dish, it'll stay or wind up on my glassware. Yuck! This is what I do now to fix this problem. If I have stuck on food (like hard stuck on food left on the counters for hours), I add to the dishwasher, my dishwasher tablet, and fill the dispensers with cheap distilled vinegar. It's roughly a 1/4 to 1/3 cup of vinegar for a full load (roughly the amount of dishes 3 meals a day x 2 days x 3 people). My dishes come out sparkling and squeaky clean every time!

if your dish clothes stink soak them in lemon jucie for 15-30mins that should work

To keep the fridge smelling fresh, try soaking a few cotton balls in vanilla extract and placing in a dish. Keep it in the fridge, and change every few weeks.

I use water heated in my coffee pot or the microwave to soak the gunk under the burners of my electric stovetop. I soak all that up, then I pour a 2nd set of water with dish soap.

To keep sink clean, after wshing up, I sprinkly surface with bicarbonate of soda and spritz with vinegar I keep in a spray bottle. I use my (clean) dish rag to scrub the surface, then rinse with hot water. Follow up with hydrogen peroxide and you increase the antibacterial punch and reduce water spots. This is environmentally friendly and works better than any commercial cleaners!

Hi,when baking a pie there is no need to grease the plate or dish as there is enough butter or fat in the pastry to do the job.

I love a clean house. We have 2 cats who are NOT allowed on kitchen surfaces. We all know that cats do what they want, when you are not looking. So, before I cook, I take my dish rag and run it under hot water with dishwashing liquid. I carefully add a splash of my mixture of 1 gal. of water to 1 Tbsp of household bleach to the dish rag. I wipe down all the kitchen surfaces with the rag. I also use that method as I'm cooking to catch spills and again when I'm finished cooking. I don't sit down to eat until the kitchen is clean, and as many pans as possible are clean. I enjoy eating much more, knowing the kitchen is clean. When we're finished eating, all that's left are the dishes we ate from. They're rinsed and put in the dishwasher. I can spend the rest of the evening doing whatever I like.

Question : I have an cast iron with enamel pot that is very badly stained on the bottom (inside). I have tried scrubbing with coarse salt, soaking with dish soap, boiling with cream of tartar, and lots of elbow grease with just about every kind of scrubbing tool that I could find. If anyone knows of something that will remove very ugly stains from enamel please, please, please let me know. I would hate to have to throw the pan out!

To get candlewax out of holder or which ever dish, stick the dish into the freezer. The wax contracts and comes off easy.

I use a nylon scouring pad as a soap dish on my bathroom sink. Every couple of days when the pad gets "gunky" with the soap drippings I just turn on the hot tap and scour around the sink with the soap on the pad and it cleans it well enough to hold me over until the weekend or so when I can give it a proper clean.

Have a baked in mess in your casserole dish, pot, or pan? Stick a dryer sheet (Bounce, Snuggle, etc) in the bottom, fill the pot or pan up with water, and let sit overnight. It wipes clean with little to no scrubbing!

Ant bites -- good enough on fire ants in Texas, so should be good for any ant bite: Dab a bit of vinegar, bleach, or dish washing detergent (liquid) to counteract the venom in the bite. And to take care of the ants themselves-- make a moat of water around the antbed, then a little farther out, sprinkle dry cream of wheat. The ants will eat the dry food, and when they drink the water, their bodies won't handle the expansion.