One of my favorite kitchen tools is:
Now,
I know my sisters, and mom and mother-in-law are going to have a chuckle.
In fact,
usually it is pretty dirty….
I mean, I don’t even see that it is dirty
out of sight out of mind…
right?
hey, just keeping it real!
However, this year one of my informal goals has been to keep it clean, and I have done a pretty good job. I try to keep it wiped out and once a week it gets a cleaning along with the rest of the kitchen.
One thing I really can’t stand is scrubbing off cooked on food. It is awkward reaching inside and you can never get it all the way off…sigh…..such a dilemma.
So here is how I solved it.
I fill my 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup all the way full of water and I put it in the microwave for 10 minutes. It will boil after about 5 minutes, but leave it in the whole time, as it boils and steams it naturally softens all the hard yucky stuff and it wipes out with no problems. Very easy!
Now…
How to get rid of that yucky microwave smell, you know the one I am talking about, it smells like yesterday’s left overs and that bag or popcorn you had three days ago. Stinky!
I tried adding some white vinegar to my water, and that cleared out a lot of the smell, but then it left a vinegar smell. (BTW white vinegar is great at getting out smells, it will take vomit and urine smell out of carpet) So then I boiled a couple of drops of lemon essential oil with my water and it worked! Really well.
So now every Friday when I clean my microwave I boil two cups water and a few drop of whatever essential oil catches my attention that day and I have a clean, fresh microwave!
Sigh. I really, really need to clean my microwave. The other day I asked my husband if we could just buy a new one so I would not have to clean the current one. I promised to keep the new one clean. No go. Sigh again.
Wow you are amazing! Of course if I comment here mom might make me clean ours from now on… oh well at least now I know a good way to do it.
My microwave doesn’t get cleaned as often as the rest of the kitchen either. That’s a good idea!
The job is now yours Chadd but lets go for twice a week. Aimee,I can’t wait to check out your micro
Great idea, another great thing is to cover everything you cook. Then you only have to clean like once a month 🙂