Baking soda is one of the hardest working ingredients in my
house. I have a box in the pantry for baking and cooking. I also have one box
of baking soda in the freezer and one in the refrigerator to deodorize them. I
hate a stinky fridge!
I change the boxes in the refrigerator and freezer every 30
days or so – mostly or so. Not out of laziness but out of
eventually-shoved-in-the-back-of-the-fridge forgetfulness. Oops.
To make my life easier because you know I’m all about easy
(oh my! That doesn’t sound very good) and to keep the open box of baking soda
from spilling because I’m all about klutzy too, I made a baking soda shaker
from a mason jar.
I cut the netting from a bag of fresh garlic to fit inside a
Mason jar ring. I filled the jar with baking soda and screwed the DIY shaker
top onto the jar.
I made and Mod Podged a fancy pants label onto the front of
the shaker jar to remind everyone this is baking soda for cleaning and not for
cooking. The shaker top makes it even easier to shake, shake, shake the old
baking soda on my mess to clean it.
I may pour some baking soda down the sink to
deoderize the drains but it rarely needs the entire box.
After 30 days, the baking soda isn’t great for cooking or
deodorizing but it still works for cleaning! I use baking soda to clean:
- Baking
soda and a sploosh of dishwashing detergent makes a great scouring
cleaner. It deodorizes the drain as you rinse it from the sink – the lazy
way!
- Allowing
a pan to soak filled with baking soda and water will make cleaning baked
on food much easier! Sometimes if the pan is bad, I add a sploosh of dish
soap.
- A
foaming baking soda and vinegar reaction cleans my oven door better than
anything I buy in a store (and trust me, I’ve tried everything.)
- A
foaming baking soda and vinegar reaction followed by hot water will clear
a clogged sink better than Drano.
Trying to get an extra use out of the things we use is one
more tactic I use to save money. Using baking soda for cleaning may not save me
a ton, unless you want to count the cost of not paying for spendy eco-friendly
scrubs and cleaners.
How do you use baking soda?
Comments
But...don't you knock over the jar and spill baking soda through the net? Doesn't it clump from being exposed to the air all the time? I have always assumed (being pretty klutzy myself) that the shaker needs to have a lid on when not in use.
So I made my baking soda shaker from a small plastic jar with shaker top under a screw-on lid. It originally held oregano, and for a couple years the baking soda did smell like oregano, but for scrubbing that doesn't matter. I covered the original label with a small piece of wrapping paper that coordinates with my kitchen.
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