Author: Karen Lennox
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Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
For many, the kitchen serves not only for cooking, but also for cozy home gatherings with family and friends.
For many, the kitchen serves not only for cooking, but also for cozy home gatherings with family and friends. Therefore, the desire to keep this room in perfect cleanliness is quite understandable. Grease stains, streaks, and even outdated dried fat are the scourge of any kitchen and the “headache” of its hostess. But knowing a few little tricks, you can effortlessly clean the hated fat and bring the kitchen to a shine.
The key to the success of any task is the right choice of tools. Cleaning is no exception. For maximum effect, make sure you have rubber gloves, a couple of washcloths, a water container, and regular wet wipes, preferably alcohol-based. Paper towels will also be helpful.
You will need household cleaners, soap and some products. No matter how strange it may sound, but they are the best helpers in cleanliness. So, you need:
baking soda, sea salt, table salt, citric acid, alcohol, mustard powder, table vinegar.
With all this arsenal at hand, you can safely engage in battle with dirt and grease.
Sea salt must be ground in a coffee grinder, mixed in equal proportions with soda. The mixture is diluted with a little water to make it thick and mushy. Then you need to moisten the sponge in hot water, run it over the oily surface and leave for 1-2 minutes - let the fat get wet. Then, with a teaspoon or hand, about 1 tablespoon of the composition is applied to a wet sponge. They need to rub the greasy surface. Where the fat is tightly dried, it would be good to work with a toothbrush. Naturally, after such a manipulation, it will no longer be possible to use it for its intended purpose.
A mixture of common table salt and the juice of 1 lemon can also make a very effective homemade cleaner. It cuts fat very well. By the way, if there was no lemon at hand, grapefruit will successfully replace it. Both ingredients must be taken in equal amounts, stirred and then used in the same way as a mixture of baking soda and sea salt.
It is advisable to grind ordinary kitchen and sea salt in a coffee grinder. Salt "Extra" is used to restore order without any preliminary preparations and transformations.
Mustard powder is used in tandem with lemon juice. It is able to remove even very old stains in the kitchen. Dirty areas are wiped with lemon juice, left for 2-3 minutes, after which, if the dirt is very old and dried up in a thick layer, the manipulation is repeated.
Then the mustard powder is diluted with cold water to the state of slurry, applied to a sponge, with which we then wipe the pollution. You can leave mustard powder on the surface to soften and corrode the fat. After a few minutes, everything must be removed with a damp sponge or cloth.
A mixture of alcohol, vinegar and citric acid can literally work wonders. It is necessary to dilute 3-4 bags of citric acid with cold water. You can not wait for complete dissolution, but apply the mixture on a sponge and gently rub the surface with it, then wait a few minutes. In the meantime, you can prepare an acetic-alcohol solution. For 3 parts of vodka or alcohol, 1 part of vinegar is taken and everything is thoroughly mixed. Then the sponge should be moistened in the solution and wipe the place that was treated with citric acid a few minutes ago. By the way, this technique not only cleans, getting rid of fat, but also perfectly disinfects the surface.
Of course, you need to work only with gloves. Not a single hand can withstand such an impact, so the negative consequences will not be slow to manifest themselves.
And finally, the kitchen should be cleaned using household chemicals. Steel surfaces such as a metallic refrigerator or microwave oven can be wiped down with window cleaner. The same goes for tidying up tiles.
Any cleaning agent is suitable for the table and work surfaces, and for the floor you can take what you wash bathtubs and sinks with, or you can buy a specially designed one, it’s called “floor cleaning”.
Using the simple secrets of fighting fat, you can forever forget about dull, old, crusted grease stains or dried foods, and the kitchen will become a model of cleanliness.