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Household Cleaning Tips and Tricks*Stubborn stains can be removed from non-stick cookware by boiling, 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 1/2 cup vinegar, and 1 cup of water for ten minutes. Before using the pan again, season it with salad oil.*Burnt food can be removed from a glass baking dish by spraying it with oven cleaner and letting it soak for 30 minutes. The burnt-on residue will be easier to wipe off.You can also remove baked on anything from a pan, pot, whatever by adding a few drop of dish soap and water and let it simmer on the stove for a few minutes; then everything wipes off with ease. *To clean copper bottoms on pots and pans, simply open a can of tomato soup paste, rub it on and scrub then rinse. If you do this weekly, your pots and pans stay shiny clean. This is a very inexpensive way to clean copper and brass items! Or whenever you empty a jar of dill pickles,use the left-over juice to clean the copper bottoms of your pans. Just pour the juice in a large bowl, set the pan in the juice for about 15 minutes. Comes out looking like new. *To restore color and shine to an aluminum pan , boil some apple peels in it for a few minutes, then rinse and dry. *Instead of using expensive silver cleaners , put a dab of toothpaste on a clean rag and rub it on your precious possession. After you've rubbed it in, just clean it with another clean rag. Your silver will look like new. *Clean eyeglasses ; Wipe each lens with a drop of vinegar.
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