In the past I've shown you how to clean with baking soda, vinegar, dish soap,
rubbing alcohol, Borax, all kinds of interesting, unsuspecting stuff. But one
thing I haven't shown you how to clean with, that definitely deserves its own
video is table salt. This stuff not only seasons your food but makes cleaning
significantly easier. So stick with me and I'll show you how to put this stuff to
good use. For those of you who follow me on Instagram, I am @MelissaMaker,
shameless plug.
You all know that I love cooking with my Le Cruset skillet. The reason this is so
great is because it gives you that beautiful sear and that's why people love
cast iron so much. The thing is the cast iron is delicate little baby and needs to
be cleaned in a very particular way so believe it or not the best way to clean
cast iron is to use simple table salt and there are two ways to do it. The first
way, involves filling your pan halfway with water, sprinkling in a couple
tablespoons of salt and heat it over medium heat on your burner. Use a wooden
spatula to gently scrap off anything remaining on the bottom, it's kind of like
deglazing your pan but without any wine, then dump it out wipe with a paper towel
and your cast iron pan is all good. The other way you can do it is by just taking
that salt, putting into the pan dry and using a plastic scrubby to scrub off any
of those remaining pieces of debris, dump up the salt and wipe
it clean with a paper towel.
Drinking red wine is wonderful. The problem with red wine is it's makes us
talk with our hands more and spill red wine on clothing or tablecloths or
carpets. So a quick fix for dealing with red wine stains is as follows, take paper
towel, blot up the stain as quickly as possible, you want to get all that of
moisture up. The next thing you'll do dump table salt on top of that wine stain be
liberal. Let it dry. You might need a few hours, you might have to leave it
overnight, but the good news is next morning dump that salt off or vacuum it up, throw
it in the wash or treat that stain and the wine will come right out. Now once you've
gone through the whole rigamarole of getting the salt on top of that stain make
sure you finish that glass of wine. You are going to need it.
Whether you drink coffee or tea you understand the drama of having your
stainless steel items stained. Kind of weird right? Anyway there is a really easy
way to fix this. All you do and I call this my tequila trick, is add some table
salt into the item, take a lemon wedge or half a lemon use that to agitate the salt
around the area with the stain, rinse it and before your eyes you will see that
stain come right off.
Obviously, when I cook I've got to spend a lot of time at the cutting board and
because I cut all kind of interesting things namely beets, strawberries, stuff
that dyes the board, smelly things like onions and garlic, cleaning, getting rid
of stains and getting rid of odors on this board is a very important thing for me to
do. There is a really easy way to do it and it involves nothing more than table
salt and that lemon. Take a few tablespoons of salt and spread it over
your cutting board you want to have a good amount of grittiness to it. Then take half a
lemon, squeeze the juice on top of that salt and now use the lemon as a sponge. So
you are going to start scrubbing in a circular motion lifting up all of those
stains and odors. When you're done give it a quick rinse, dry it well and lay it
up against the backsplash or your sink so it can dry. You do not want to lay this
flat. It has to be upright so that it doesn't warp. If you like the idea of a
powdered cleanser for cleaning your stainless steel pots and pans or even your sink, but
you want a little bit more oomph than what plain old baking soda can offer, I have a
quick little tip for you, mix one part banking soda with one part table salt, add
that to your stainless steel item that needs cleaning. Throw in a little bit of
dish soap, clean as usual and you will see the salt adds that extra grittiness that
makes cleaning that much easier. Although salt has been demoted from being used as a
currency several hundred years ago to something that we season our food with, at
least we can give it a little bit more use by cleaning with it. There are lots of
other cool things you can clean and do with salt around the house and I would
love to know if you have any salty cleaning or household secret.
So please let me know in the comments down below. I would love to hear about them and
maybe we will revisit this topic in a future video. You can follow me on
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Well it's that special time of the week where I get to throw you to a couple of
other videos I think you are going to love. If you haven't seen it already you
need to definitely check out our video on how to clean with baking soda and you can
also check out our video how to clean with vinegar. Don't forget to visit our website
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