Baking soda is another one of my top picks to use for cleaning the entire house. It’s cheap, easy to find and most importantly, NOT a harsh chemical and safe to use around kids. Although you can use baking soda around your entire house, we’re going to look specifically at cleaning your kitchen with this amazing substance.
1. De-Yellow Kitchen Appliances
Many people have white kitchen appliances and know that sometimes it seems like no matter how much you clean them, they still have a yellow-ish tint, especially on handles, that you just can’t seem to get clean. It leaves your appliances looking dingy and old.
Make a paste of baking soda and vinegar and use it to scrub your yellowed appliances, especially areas that are touched a lot, like handles and buttons and rinse with water.
2. Scrub Pans With Burnt-On Food
This is one of my favorite ways to use baking soda because it works so well and makes an extremely frustrating task so much easier! Just sprinkle baking soda on your pans, add a little water and scrub away!
For more stubborn messes, put baking soda and boiling water in a pan and leave overnight. Scrub it out in the morning.
3. Clean Stove-Tops, Ovens, and Drip Pans
Use baking soda and water to scrub stove-tops, ovens and drip pans and watch them come clean in no time. I use this all the time on my glass stove-top and it works like a charm!
4. Remove Rust
Remove rust from metal appliances or edges by making a paste with baking soda and water and scrub the rust right off. For more stubborn rust, apply the paste, let it sit and scrub it off later.
5. Clean Grease and Food Residue Off Your Cabinets
Make your cabinets look sparkling new with baking soda in no time. Just mix together 1 Tbs. baking soda, 1/2 Tbs. dish soap, and 1/2 Tbs. water together and use it to wipe down your cabinets. Rise with a warm, damp cloth and all the grease and fingerprints will be gone!
NOTE: Depending on what type of finish you have on your cabinets, you may want to test a small area before doing the entire surface.
6. Clean Your Coffee Pot
Mix a small amount of baking soda into water and run it through a regular cycle of your coffee pot. It will de-clog your machine and wash all of the coffee sediment out.
SPECIAL NOTE: It is not recommended that you use this method with a Keurig coffee pot. You can, however, use pure vinegar to clean your Keurig by filling the water reservoir with vinegar and running it through until it is empty. Then fill it again with water and run it until the reservoir is empty again. Then, take the water reservoir off and leave the machine open overnight to dry out. Otherwise, if you try to brew a cup of coffee right away and you like to put creamer in your coffee, the last bit of vinegar residue will curdle your creamer, and nobody wants that!
7. Clean Thermoses and Water Bottles
For anyone who drinks out of a water bottle or thermos regularly, knows how frustrating it can be to keep it clean. It can be especially difficult to put different drinks in it without having one taste like another. Baking soda is the perfect trick! Just put 2-3 Tbs. of baking soda in your thermos or water bottle and pour hot water into it. Put the lid on, shake it up and leave it overnight. In the morning, clean it as you usually would and it’s ready to go!
There you have it! Seven ways to make your kitchen look sparkling new just by using baking soda! Try these tips today and let me know in the comments how it goes!