VINEGAR -- NOT JUST FOR SALADS

Maybe the oldest use for distilled white vinegar yet (besides as a food). Cleaning!

Window Cleaner

A quarter cup in a quart of water makes a good window cleaner. When
you use vinegar in your water to wash windows, dry with newspapers.
Your windows will sparkle! Keep a solution of 50/50 white vinegar and
water in a spray bottle to use for cleaning windows.

Tarnished Copper

On heavily tarnished copper or copper-alloy to be cleaned up, use a
paste made of salt and vinegar.

Dishes

White vinegar mixed with water to rinse off the dishes after washing
them to take the soap off and leave them squeaky clean. This also
takes the soap residue off of your hands at the same time.
Pour 1/4 cup vinegar with dish soap- water must be hot (not boiling
hot). This is great for cleaning your Corningware dishes (it removes all
the stains and grease), cleaning your stainless steel pots and pans
etc., clean your oven and all of stove top (this is better than oven
cleaners. it will remove all of the grease. just dab on and let it set for a
few minutes then wipe clean), and cabinets in kitchen.
Pour 1/4 cup vinegar to your dishwasher rinse cycle for streak free,
sparkling dishes every time!!

Floor Cleaner

Add 1/2 cup vinegar to a gal. of water to keep your vinyl no wax floors
clean and shining.
Those mops with the detachable, washable heads, and squirt vinegar
on the floor, mop it up and squirt more as needed.

Carpet Spot and Stain Remover

As a carpet spot and stain remover - take a trigger spray bottle and
fill with one part white vinegar to seven parts water. Take a second
spray bottle and fill with one part white, non-sudsy ammonia and
seven parts water. Saturate stain with vinegar solution. Let dwell for a
few minutes and blot thoroughly with a clean, white cloth. Then go
over the area with the ammonia solution, let dwell and blot again.
Repeat until the stain is gone.

Coffee Maker

Fill the water reservoir half way and run the coffee maker as you
normally do and then run it once full of water and the coffee maker
will be spotless.

Grease Cutter

Vinegar is an excellent grease cutter. In college cafeterias we boil out
our fry vats every week with vinegar and water. Very cost effective
and very safe-no harsh chemicals, no risk of fire. We also use straight
vinegar to clean the grill hoods. Again, very inexpensive and does a
fantastic job.

Waxing a Floor

When waxing a floor after scrubbing with a floor stripper, use 1 cup of
vinegar to rinse water. It neutralizes the chemicals and makes wax or
floor finish adhere better.

Oven Cleaner

To keep your freshly-cleaned oven from stinking up your house next
time you bake something, wipe it with white vinegar poured directly on
the sponge as a final rinse. It neutralizes the harsh alkali of oven cleaners.

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