Baking Tools And Supplies

Essential Cleaning Supplies To Help Make Cleaning Your House Easier

As with every task, cleaning a home means needing a set of tools to help you be on your way. Not only that but you can’t just use one item to get the entire job done, although I know that we all wish for that. So until we can purchase our own cleaning robots to keep our homes spick and span, here are some essential cleaning supplies that you might want to have along.

Baking Soda. Now, before you start thinking that running to the store and getting the most readily-available cleanser there, remember that you’ll want to be efficient. Also, with the number of neurotoxins and carcinogens (yes, they can cause cancer) put into cleaning products today, you can’t be too careful about how what you’re using to tidy up could affect the environment that not only you, but your family moves around it. Baking soda is nontoxic, is a great odor absorber, and can be used to clean bathtubs, sinks, tiles and your countertop without worrying about any chemical damage.

Lemon Juice. A powerful acidic cleanser for your silverware, or even your plates, would have to be lemon juice. Just slice a lemon, dab it in a bit of salt and start rubbing away. It’s also effective against household bacteria, can remove mineral build-up, tarnish and grease and it’s great for freshening your garbage disposal once you’re done.

White Vinegar. Who said that essential cleaning supplies had to be expensive? Before you start complaining about the smell, let me tell you that vinegar is one of the best all-purpose cleaners around and the smell disappears once it dries up. It’s a powerful disinfectant and deodorizer. Make sure that you don’t use it on marble though as its naturally acidic and can cause discoloration. The best way to use vinegar would be to dilute it in an equal amount of water. The only time you should use it pure is when you’re trying to get rings out of the toilet bowl.

Cornstarch. Is another product that doesn’t have to stay locked up in your kitchen cabinet. You can actually use this to clean up carpets and rugs as well as windows as it’s naturally absorbent.

Club Soda. Yes, you can find essential cleaning supplies in your refrigerator too. Club soda isn’t just for mixing drinks. It can also be used to remove tough stains.

Purified Water. If you haven’t found out the difference between hard and soft water yet, then now’s the time. While water in itself is a universal solvent, purified water has most of the minerals filtered out of it making it easier to clean with. If all you have is regular tap water though, then that’s not a problem. Just toss in some baking soda and it will soften the water for you.

Now, these are only a few tried and tested materials that you can use in cleaning your home. What you have to keep in mind is that your essential cleaning supplies have to be readily available to you and easily accessible. Once you’ve got everything ready, then you’ll get the work done much faster.

About the Author

Sherry Hall is a working mom and cleaning expert. For more great essential cleaning supplies to get your house spick and span visit http://www.QuickCleaningAnswers.com

Baking: $26.25 2007 Beard Award Winner! Dorie Greenspan has written recipes for the most eminent chefs in the world: Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and arguably the greatest of them all, Julia Child, who once told Dorie, You write recipes just the way I do. Her recipe writing has won widespread praise for its literate curiosity and patient but exuberant style. (One hard-boiled critic called it a joy forever.) In Baking: From My Home to Yours, her masterwork, Dorie applies the lessons from three decades of experience to her first and real love: home baking. The 300 recipes will seduce a new generation of bakers, whether their favorite kitchen tools are a bowl and a whisk or a stand mixer and a bakers torch. Even the most homey of the recipes are very special. Dories favorite raisin swirl bread. Big spicy muffins from her stint as a baker in a famous New York City restaurant. French chocolate brownies (a Parisian pastry chef begged for the recipe). A dramatic black and white cake for a wow occasion. Pierre Hermés extraordinary lemon tart. The generous helpings of background information, abundant stories, and hundreds of professional hints set Baking apart as a one-of-a-kind cookbook. And as if all of this weren’t more than enough, Dorie has appended a fascinating mini book, A Dessert makers Glossary, with more than 100 entries, from why using ones fingers is often best, to how to buy the finest butter, to how the bundt pan got its name. Dorie Greenspan has written or cowritten eight cookbooks, including Baking with Julia, which won a James Beard Award and an IACP Award; Desserts by Pierre Hermé, which was named IACP Cookbook of the Year; and Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Hermé, which won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the best English-language cookbook. She created many recipes for The All-New Joy of Cooking and is a special correspondent for Bon Appétit, for which she writes the Tools of the Trade column.

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