Guide
Degrease sticky kitchen cupboards
The tacky film above a hob is airborne cooking fat that has gone sticky. It needs an alkali and a few minutes, not pressure.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 40 minutes
How do you clean it?
Reliable, tested answers for everything in and around your home.
Tip:Fold a cloth in four and you are holding eight clean faces.
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Rescue a burnt pan
Simmer, soak, lift. Almost every burnt pan comes back without a scourer and without ruining the base.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 45 minutes
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Descale a showerhead in a bag
A freezer bag, an elastic band and some vinegar. No dismantling, and the spray pattern comes back.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 70 minutes
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Clean a microwave with steam
Let water do the work. Five minutes of steam turns baked-on splatter into something that wipes off with a damp cloth.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 15 minutes
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Descale a kettle
Ten minutes, one ingredient, no scrubbing. The white crust is a mineral, so it needs an acid, not effort.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 30 minutes
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Streak-free glass with microfibre
The two-cloth method: a flat-weave cloth to clean, a dry one to finish, and a cleaner that evaporates before it can streak.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 15 minutes
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- Colour-code your cloths: white for glass, green for kitchen, yellow for bathroom, red for the toilet.
- Test anything new somewhere it will not be seen.
- Baking soda absorbs odours; it does not mask them.