Saturday, February 9

When Life Gives You Lemons

When life gives you lemons clean your microwave
You should all know me by now- cleaning isn't my forte but as I was about to throw some used lemons away I seised the moment and put them in a bowl with some water and heated everything for about 5 minutes until there was a lot of steam within the microwave - I left it for a few minutes then wiped - to my credit the microwave wasn't that crusted up but it looks like new again and involved very little effort.
Most natural cleaning solutions involve a lot of elbow grease which rules it out for me but on this occasion I was very impressed just how easy it was to create such excellent results.


12 comments:

  1. I have a question. What does one do when life gives you bananas?

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    1. Ha ha with my resistant gorilla we rarely have spare bananas but I've heard they can be used to polish patent leather.....;-)

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  2. it's remembering to use the things you have to hand which i am not very good at. bet the microwave smells lovely too.
    anniex

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    1. me too Annie but on this occasion it worked out very well.

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    1. I was surprised at just how well it worked.

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  4. A timely post with Pancake Day coming up!

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  5. Makes the kitchen smell nice too doesn't it. Have your tried using them to clean your teacups? I use lemons and a bit of bicarb to get rid of tea stains, easy.

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    1. I use sterilisation tablets - the kind used for baby bottles - I clean my husband's flask once a week and I've got one mug that seems to stain up....but I have used bicarb on spoons when they get that dull build up

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  6. If only I'd read that earlier, I put two old lemons in the compost the other day. Next time I'll know better, thanks

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    1. Apparently you can put citrus peel straight on the garden to deter cats....although I don't think it would deter my lot!

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