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Posts tagged “Cleaning”

How Do You Clean Your Kitchen Floor?
The Fall 2009 Kitchen Cure

This week's Cure assignment includes a good bout of deep cleaning, and boy, nowhere needs it so much as our kitchen floor. We are pretty animated in the kitchen, and it seems like there's always somet...

Quick Tip: How to Get Grease Stains Out of Clothes

One thing about cooking is it sure is messy! Even when we remember to wear an apron, we still wind up with splatters all over our sleeves. The very worst are the grease stains, which always seem total...

Kitchen Organization: Putting An Old Muffin Tin To Use!

About to toss an old dented muffin tin in the Goodwill box, we changed our minds. Maybe we won't be using it to bake any more muffins, but we can definitely give it a second life as a drawer organizer...

Cook's Confession: How Often Do You Sweep and Mop?

Given the amount of crumbs that get scattered, spoons that get dropped, and pans that get spilled in the course of a single cooking session, we could probably be cleaning our kitchen floor every day a...

Disinfect Plastic Cutting Boards In The Microwave

Most of our slicing and dicing in the kitchen is done on our wood cutting board. We do still have a plastic one around for a spare and until now have been quite confident in our ability to keep it cl...

Help! Did I Ruin My Copper Pots?
Good Questions

Q: I decided to take my copper pots once used for decor and take off the laqueur so i can cook with them. Now they have horrible black stains and a terrible copper finish and I am so sorry I ruined th...

What's the Kitchen Indulgence You Just Can't Give Up?

I'll come clean (ahem!) right away: my kitchen indulgence is fancy dish soap. Times are tough and I'm a slave to my budget, but a pleasant washing-up experience is one thing I still spend top dollar...

In-Stink-Erator: Dealing With A Smelly Garbage Disposal

A few weeks ago, we noticed a phantom stinky odor in our kitchen. It wasn't the trash. It wasn't the fridge. We finally traced it to the garbage disposal! Here's what we learned about getting it clean...

Tell Us: What Do You Do While You Wait?

Even for the quickest meals, nothing ever times up perfectly. There are always little bits of down time here and there while we wait for water to boil or onions to soften or some meat to thaw. What do...

Pros and Cons of the Fisher & Paykel Dish Drawers
Product Reviews

We've been seeing more and more of these dish drawers in small kitchens. Ours came with our apartment, which had recently been renovated, and now that we've been using them for more than a year, we ha...

Great Wineglasses: Tips On Caring for Your Glassware

It seem that most of you agree with last week's post that great wineglasses do make a difference, and that they are worth the investment. But once you've invested, how should you care for them? ...

Quick Tip: Use a Spill Tray

We've all been there. We're baking a fresh fruit pie or bubbly casserole, and we open the oven door to see that some of the filling has oozed over the edge of the pan - and right onto the oven floor. ...

Cleaning Up: How Do You Clean Your Strainers?

We feel a little foolish, but we need your help with a problem that's been bugging us for quite some time. Strainers! No matter how thoroughly we think we've cleaned them, we always seem to find stray...

5 Things to Do In the Kitchen Before You Leave for Vacation

Are you going away for vacation this summer? What do you to close up your kitchen before you leave? Here are five things we always check before leaving the kitchen to itself for a few days. ...

Good Question: How Do I Get Melted Plastic Off the Oven?

We've totally had this problem. Julie asks: I've had a bad week when it comes to plasticware in the kitchen. First I forgot that a bunch of stuff—including some plastic food savers from Ikea&mda...

Good Question: Why Are There Bugs In My Storage Jars?

Here's a cry for help from reader Lena. Do you have any advice?I have recently invested an incredible amount of time, energy, and money into acquiring, organizing, and labeling dry food storage, so th...

How To Prevent and Get Rid of Ants in the Kitchen

Who doesn't hate walking in their kitchen and seeing a long trail of ants coming down the wall and amassing in a large group on the trash can? These persistent little critters can be difficult to dea...

Weekend Project: Spruce Up the Dining Patio

We've been so eager to enjoy the nice weather outside that we just pulled a few chairs onto our porch and called it good. The other day we were looking around and realized that our backyard space coul...

Mice In the Kitchen! How Have You Dealt With Mice?

Mice in the kitchen! Have you ever had this problem? This is not a pleasant topic, and we'll be the first to admit that. But it's one that many of us have to deal with at one time or another, and we a...

It's Cleaning Time! Kitchen Cleaning Tips and Inspiration
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

Your Kitchen Cure assignment this week is to clean up the kitchen and finish restocking, reorganizing, and doing whatever your kitchen needs to be ready to get cooking next week. Cleaning isn't the se...

Weekend Project: Clean Your Kitchen in Five Steps!

Even if you're not officially taking the Kitchen Cure this year, we hope you've been inspired and motivated by our decluttering and organizing posts this week! Here's one last post to take with you in...

Decluttering Tip: Use It or Lose It!

Having trouble parting with that old potato peeler? Or the cute egg separater you use twice a year? Well, here's an easy, low-stress way to wean yourself off your "occasional use" kitchen utensils and...

No More Mops: Cleaning the Kitchen Floor with a Sponge

A few days ago, Emma asked for your suggestions on the best mop for the kitchen. You all gave a lot of good opinions, but I have one more. See, the mop I use most frequently is attached to my arm....

Best Kitchen Composters

We have this pretty great arrangement whereby I keep a canister for kitchen scraps on my counter, and our neighbor, who has a small garden and compost bin behind her apartment, takes the scraps down e...

How To Declutter Your Pots, Pans, and Kitchen Tools
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

Congratulations to everyone who finished the first week of the Kitchen Cure by cleaning out the fridge, freezer, and pantry. If you haven't got that far yet, no worries — the Cure is fluid, and ...