House Hold Tips

Dear Friends,

The household tips posted here are really very useful. Thanks to everyone! I found the silverware cleaning tip the most useful.

I have a small problem at hand. I have a heavy duty stainless steel cooking pot, which unfortunately 'adi pidichufied' big time recently. Usually I would soak it in soap & warm water overnight and the following day it would be easy to clean it out with the steel sponge scrubber. No luck this time though :( .

I've been scrubbing little by little everyday and continuing to leave the vessel soaked in soap water overnight. At this rate I would be lucky to get it cleaned by next Deepavali!

Any tips, suggestions, advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation!

Shoba

Hi Shoba,

try this out... sprinkle a good amount of salt & scrub vigorously it with aluminium foil(a big piece nicely crumbled)... I've tried this to clean the stove burners & it worked really well in taking off the the food particles spilled & burnt while cooking & even some rust... but I'm scared that it might leave scratches on the vessels...

Any 'sure' way of removing dirt around the shirt collars ? Even after prior soaking in detergent [Ariel], I have to scrub the collar area with a separate bar soap & nylon brush .....
Is there a better method or detergent to clean the shirt 'totally' in one go ?

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Originally Posted by Shoba

Dear Friends,

The household tips posted here are really very useful. Thanks to everyone! I found the silverware cleaning tip the most useful.

I have a small problem at hand. I have a heavy duty stainless steel cooking pot, which unfortunately 'adi pidichufied' big time recently. Usually I would soak it in soap & warm water overnight and the following day it would be easy to clean it out with the steel sponge scrubber. No luck this time though :( .

I've been scrubbing little by little everyday and continuing to leave the vessel soaked in soap water overnight. At this rate I would be lucky to get it cleaned by next Deepavali!

Any tips, suggestions, advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation!

Shoba

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Try spraying the inside with oven cleaner and leave it for half hour or so. Then scrub with regular sponge. Make sure you wear gloves and then rinse well. All the black layer will come out. Just to get the oven cleaner odor out, fill it up with water and soap and leave it for some time and then wash it again.

Hope this helps.
CI.

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Originally Posted by Yamuna

Any 'sure' way of removing dirt around the shirt collars ? Even after prior soaking in detergent [Ariel], I have to scrub the collar area with a separate bar soap & nylon brush .....
Is there a better method or detergent to clean the shirt 'totally' in one go ?

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Yamuna,
I don't know where you live. But in U.S we get something called 'Spray N Wash'. You get it as spray and stick. I buy the stick for mainly collars. Just before you wash them or a day earlier, slide that stick on the collar and then wash like regular cloth. Collars will be clean and bright.

Hope this helps.

CI.

Hi Dev,

Salt didnt do the trick ma :( , but thanks for your suggestion :)

CI hi!,

I'll give the oven cleaner a try and see what happens. Will post results. Thanks a lot!

Shoba

Hello all,

Looks like you are all doing a great job :) I have a question! I have loads of slugs in the garden, how to get rid of them? I tried slug pellets, but they don't work if it rains :( and the beer technique, while that got most of it, some of it remained, reproduced and took over the garden again! Tried salt and that worked wonders too, but I guess I did not get it all!

The rains have started here and it is difficult to do anything solid to clear the garden of this pest!

Thanks,

We bought a used sofa last week. It was good for couple of days, and smelling like cigratte there after.

Can anyone suggest how to get rid of that ? Any solution/spray - any thing you think.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Gv,

For getting rid of the stickers off the plastic or glass bottles, i just soak them up in a sink full of hot water from the tap overnight. In the morning, the paper just slides off even if u just touch it. What remains sticking to the jar is just the glue used...sometimes all over the jar, and sometimes only on one place....Just give that a slight scrub with the scotch brite (or any scrubber) u use to clean utensils, with little cleaning liquid. The glue easily rinses off clean...

Dry it thoroughly and u can even put them out in the sun for a while, to get rid of the slightest trace of dampness, before storing flour...

Rajshank

Hai

Thanks for all the useful tips posted here. How do we clean the laptop screen. Can we use windex wipes

Thank you