Sticky kitchen messes

By mudlark • October 29th, 2008

Bread dough, cookie dough, pastry mess… When you have a sticky icky kitchen mess on your hands, what’s the quickest way to clean it up? Most of the stickies we’re talking about need an acidic cleaner to wipe them up. Flour, water, oil, shortening, or butter… It’s an alkaline mess and what better to clean an alkaline with than an acid? That means you need something like vinegar or lemon juice.

The easiest thing to do is to let it dry a bit, then use a plastic scraper to scrape up the dried mess. You’ll have some residue left on your counters (or your hands or floors), and that’s where you’ll spray your vinegar or lemon juice. They’ll cut the grease and help ease the gunk from your surfaces. Easy as pie!

Comments(4) Cleaning tips, Kitchen, Vinegar

Comments

By Roger Hamilton on October 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am

Thanks for the tip! Sometimes I just do it the easier way out but it isn’t really effective.

By Acid Reflux and Diet on November 12th, 2008 at 7:48 am

Great Tip. I like this post

By bar stool on February 6th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

Great Tip! My daughters had a sleepover a few weekends ago and decided to bake muffins and cookies from scratch and made a mess all over the place. When I saw the dry dough all over the kitchen counters and on my new kitchen bar stools I almost cried. I bought the bar stools not even a month ago and could not get them cleaned up, I’m so glad to see there is a way to save them. I started to look online for the exact ones I purchased but they were put of stock and just the thought of having to look for the same bar stool style and having to pay for new ones stressed me out. Thanks for the tip!

By Mixer machine on March 24th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

I prefer lemon juice since it is always available to me from my lemon tree