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Cleaning Ingredients For Kitchen

When it comes to cleaning, kitchen is one of the worst places at home. It is always exposed to dirt, grease, oil, stains etc. The walls easily gets stained with oil, dishes get burned, exhaust fan gets greased by oil and the kitchen stinks due to stale food. Be it the kitchen cabinet or sink, you need to spend at least one hour every day for cleaning the kitchen.

There are many things that you need to clean in the kitchen on everyday basis. Utensils, cooking stove, microwave, sink, dustbin, water tank, bottles, slabs etc are few things that need regular cleaning. You easily get products in the market. However, none of the products show cent percent results. And you end up scrubbing the stained dish with all your energy.

To maintain a stainless and odour-free kitchen, you need to follow some smart cleaning tricks. If you want a proper guide to clean your kitchen, then you can use the tips given below. Here are the few homemade cleaning ingredients that can be used in cleaning the kitchen effectively. Try these easily available ingredients for cleaning your kitchen.

Cleaning Ingredients For Kitchen:

White Vinegar

White Vinegar

To get rid of oily and stained dishes, use white vinegar. White vinegar can also be used to remove stains of egg and garlic from dishes.

Lemon Juice

Lemon Juice

To remove greasy stains from kitchen slab, you can spray some lemon juice. It can also be used to wash tea pot and foul smelling dustbin.

Baking Soda

Baking Soda

To get rid of kitchen sink odour, you can sprinkle baking soda.

Hot Water

Hot Water

To clean the clogged kitchen pipe, flush hot water directly into the sink. You can also sprinkle baking powder and leave it overnight. Throw hot water in the morning to clean the kitchen pipe.

Salt

Salt

To remove rust from stained aluminum utensils, scrub the dish with salt and white vinegar.

Cotton Bud

Cotton Bud

To clean the nook and corner of the kitchen stove, you can use wet cotton buds.

Grapefruit

Grapefruit

The citrus fruit can be used to clean many things in the kitchen. You can clean oily utensils and even the floor with grapefruit. It is used as a dish scrubber to remove grease from utensils.

Lemon Water

Lemon Water

To remove the strong pungent odour from the microwave, you can boil water with lemon juice for some 10 minutes. This will leave a citrus fruity smell inside the oven. Wipe off with a paper towel to clean the microwave.

Lemon peels

Lemon peels

You can even keep dry lemon peels inside the cabinet to remove the moisture and damp smell. Lemon peels can also be used to clean the cutting board.

Egg Shells

Egg Shells

Cockroaches are commonly found in every kitchen cabinet. You can even keep egg shells to get rid of them. The smell of egg shells keep the cockroaches away.

Wet Paper Towels

Wet Paper Towels

It is another cleaning ingredient required in the kitchen. Wet paper towels can be used to clean the kitchen slab and stove.

Nail Polish Remover

Nail Polish Remover

If the bread cover has burnt on the toaster, dab a cotton ball in nail polish remover and get rid of the cover easily.

Rubbing Alcohol

Rubbing Alcohol

This can be used to clean the stained utensils. It can also be mixed with water and white vinegar to clean stained and greasy windows and walls of the kitchen.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar

This can be mixed with water to clean the refrigerator and keep it odour-free. Soak a paper towel in vinegar to clean the greasy walls and windows of the kitchen.

Hydrogen Peroxide

Hydrogen Peroxide

You can clean many things in kitchen using hydrogen peroxide. Wooden cutting board, dish washing sponges, scrubs etc can be made bacteria-free if it is washed with hydrogen peroxide.

Eucalyptus Oil

Eucalyptus Oil

This is another natural cleaner that you can use to get sparkling and clean kitchen floors.

Vodka

Vodka

If you have tiles on the kitchen flooring, you can use vodka to clean it and whiten the floor.

Tamarind

Tamarind

Silver crockery becomes black if it is exposed to moisture or air. Old and darkened silver can be best cleaned with tamarind and salt. Even rust copper taps, kitchen sink and kitchen chimney can be cleaned with tamarind.

Potato

Potato

To clean the glass items, you can use raw potato slices. It removes the strong smell of onion, garlic, egg, milk and alcohol.

Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter

Want to remove sticky labels from new utensils like plates or bowls? Scrub with peanut butter.

Story first published: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 17:52 [IST]
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