If you have a kitchen, you probably dread cleaning it as much as the next person.
Nobody wants to deal with all that grease, grime, and stuck-on dirt. You can spend thousands of dollars on cleaning products, and you won’t have much luck with them. You still end up scrubbing until your arms feel like they might fall off. What if there were some cleaning hacks that really worked? Well, there are – here are seven of them.
1. Remove Grease
The best way to remove oil and grease from your appliances or other surfaces in the kitchen is to melt it away. Use a microfiber rag and continue to dip it in very hot water and wipe away the grease. It will simply melt right off. Then, you can go back and wipe the surface completely clean.
2. Clean Crevices
Whether you find gunk stuck in your appliances, cracks on your counter, or gaps between your walls and floor, those tight places are hard to clean. The best way to do it is to use the tip of a wooden skewer to pick out the gunk. It can take a little time to do this, but your kitchen will look sparkling clean when you finish.
3. Kitchen Smells
Have you ever cooked something and the smell has lingered in your home for days? You might try to spray something that smells better, but it just mixes with the kitchen scents and smells worse. Instead, try boiling a pot of white vinegar on the stovetop. It will absorb the smells in your kitchen, and you won’t even smell the vinegar.
4. Cooktops
Cooktops take a beating, and they have a lot of things spilled and dripped on them. As these things heat up, they can be almost impossible to remove. Easy-Off oven cleaner works great inside your oven, but it also works on cooktops.
Cooktops take a beating, and they have a lot of things spilled and dripped on them. As these things heat up, they can be almost impossible to remove. Easy-Off oven cleaner works great inside your oven, but it also works on cooktops.
5. Fruit Flies
Fruit flies seem to come out of nowhere. If you accidentally drop something in your sink or forget about those bananas on the counter, you can walk into a fruit fly infestation. The best way to get rid of them is to put a sliced lemon on the oven rack and leave the oven door open overnight. In the morning, the fruit flies will be gone, and you will get your kitchen back.
6. Whiten a Sink
If you have a white sink, it may not be so white anymore. You can bring it back to its original color with lemon and baking soda. Simply sprinkle the baking soda in the sink and use the cut side of a lemon to scrub the sink. You will see all the stains and dirt are gone.
7. Grout
Grout looks good until it gets dirty. It can seem almost impossible to clean, but some baking soda and white vinegar can do wonders. If you are cleaning the grout on the floor, simply sprinkle the baking soda on and spray it with vinegar. If you are cleaning tiles on a wall, make a thick paste of the two and apply it to the grout with a toothbrush. Once the mixture finishes fizzing, simply mop or wipe it up to reveal sparkling clean tile.
Cleaning a kitchen isn’t fun, but that doesn’t mean you can get away with not doing it.
You want your kitchen to be clean and beautiful, and these simple cleaning tips can help make that possible. Try them in your home and look for new ways to use them to get your entire house sparkling clean. You may even come up with your own kitchen cleaning hacks to share with the world.
