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Tag Archives: kitchen
Cleaning Your Pasta Machine – with Flour
If your pasta dough is a little sticky and some still sticks to the machine after you are done, do not use water to wash it off. Water will ruin the machine and does not wash the dough away properly … Continue reading
Fighting the Gunk
Can openers, appliances and kitchen gadets in general can collect a lot of gunk. If you dampen an old, soft toothbrush with a couple of drops of essential oil you can get rid of the gunk in no time: Scub, … Continue reading
Cleaning Plastic Containers
Plastic containers, no matter how expensive they were when you first bought them, are often difficult to clean and tend to get permanently stained. Here are a few ideas on how to clean them, or deal best with the issue: … Continue reading
A different story: Fighting Cockroaches Naturally
Cockroaches are tough, as all of you who have to put up with them know. IF you do not have children or pets that walk around the house freely, you can mix borax and sugar and put it into all … Continue reading
Fighting Critters Naturally 5 – Insects in General
This is the last part of my mini series: Insects In general, you can get rid of any number of insects in your kitchen by placing loose bay leaves in your kitchen cabinets.