Apartment Therapy: Cleaning

Welcome to our
New Design!
NY, LA, SF & Chicago are
apartmenttherapy.com
The Nursery is now
ohdeedoh.com
The Kitchen is now
thekitchn.com
Home Tech is now
unplggd.com
Green Home is now
re-nest.com

Posts tagged “Cleaning”

Help! Getting Rid of Lingering Food Smells

We made a heavenly mushroom risotto with ramps this past weekend. Creamy, oozy, and rich--we proclaimed it the Best Risotto Ever and promptly ate the entire pot. One problem, though. It's now Monday...

Baking Tools: Wear and Care of Your Pizza Stone

So you've invested in a pizza stone--or dusted it off from where it was hiding at the bottom of the cupboard! You're loving it when you bake your pizzas, artisan loaves, and various baked goodies. N...

Is Your Kitchen an A, B, or C? Take the Los Angeles County Health Grade Test (and Get a Grade Magnet)

If you live in Los Angeles or have ever visited a restaurant there, you know that all eating establishments within LA County are graded A, B, and C. We just discovered that there's a version of the he...

Replace My Pan! The Trauma of a Busboy and a Pizza Oven

We're sifting through the very sad entries we received in our call for the very worst pans in your cupboards. We'll announce the five lucky winners tomorrow (Friday). In the meantime, here are some of...

Replace My Pan! A Sad Story of Cast Iron

Our spring clean giveaway with Staub asked you for your ugliest, worst, most terrible pan. We're going to replace the most pathetic five pans we see with a new and beautiful 12" inch Honeycomb skillet...

Organization: Getting Rid of Old Food Magazines

That's a 2004 issue of Gourmet on the far right. Isn't the cover nice? We've had it sitting in a stack of magazines on our coffee table for years, through multiple moves, and still haven't thrown it a...

How To: Organize Your Fridge

With spring cleaning on our brains and the Kitchn Cure for inspiration, we're ready to take a fresh look at the contents of our refrigerator. But once all the expired condiments have been tossed and t...

Good Question: How to Clean Rusty Dansk Cookware

I have a full set of the Dansk (DANSK IHC KOBENWARE on bottoms) Kobenstyle cookware in navy blue and white that has served me well, but the bottoms of all of the pots and pans have rusted and leave ru...

Good Cure Question: What Are Processed Foods?

Last Thursday I gave a controversial assignment as part of Week Two of The Kitchn Cure: I asked you to pitch your processed foods. And the questions started rolling in about what, exactly, processe...

Kitchn Cure: How Long Can You Keep Opened Condiments?

a peek inside STLcolleen's fridge from the Kitchn Cure's Flickr page Earlier this week we answered a reader's question about how long it is safe to keep condiments. But for those who joined the Kitc...

Good Question Update: Shayna De-Stinks a Vintage Kettle

Do you remember Shayna's Good Question from last fall? She told us she had a vintage Michael Lax enamel kettle that smelled like "Chanel #5 and cigarettes." She didn't want to throw away her pretty y...

Kitchen Keeping: Flowers on the Table

Last day of Kitchen Keeping, and there's a lot we didn't get to, but next month is all about Harvest, so we'll return to canning, preserving, and stocking up for the winter. Here's one last element ...

Kitchen Keeping: Most Memorable Advice?

What is the best advice (or the most memorable) that you have ever received on organizing, cleaning, and keeping a happy kitchen, and do you follow it? For us, it is probably our grandmother and mot...

Tips: Sniffing Out Kitchen Odors

One of the first tasks in Kitchen Keeping Month, as we sweep out summer's leftovers in preparation for fall, is dealing with any urgent odors in the fridge or cupboards. Because, that photo over the...

On Moving Kitchens

The whole kitchen is on a truck, packed in boxes and plastic tubs, dishes carefully swaddled in recycled paper and old dishtowels. The cookbooks are stacked in heavy boxes, and the spices have their...

Survey: Sponge or Dishcloth?

Now for the big Cleaning Month question: Sponge or dishcloth? Some people think sponges are gross; others think dishcloths are useless. How do you do your dishes, and why? How did your family was...

Survey: How Do You Clean Your Kitchen Floor?

Sometimes we feel like we're in a losing fight with our kitchen to keep our floors clean. With cream-colored tile that shows every little spot, and a rather energetic cooking style, it's a constant st...

May is... Spring Cleaning!

It's spring cleaning around here for the rest of May! The excitement of the Smallest Coolest Contest is over - and the rest of May is all about a burst of spring cleaning. We have an eye on the produc...