How to Clean Your Microwave Using NO Chemicals {or scrubbing}
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What do we love? Microwaves! What do we hate? Cleaning the microwave! Learn how to clean your microwave with lemons!
How to Clean Your Microwave without Chemicals
Cleaning the microwave is one of my least favorite chores. I mean, it’s right up there with dusting the mini blinds and deep cleaning the baseboards. This simple cleaning hack changed the way I live my life. Okay, that’s a stretch but it does make me smile every time I open my microwave. That works too, right?
All you need to get your microwave sparkly clean in six minutes or less:
- Lemons
- Distilled White Vinegar
- Bowl
Prepare a bowl of water, then slice your lemons. Add a splash of vinegar and microwave for five minutes. Voila!
Yikes! Check out the state of my microwave. Or rather, don’t. 😐 I find solace in the fact that many a microwave hides inner ugliness as well. My microwave is not alone. Instead of therapy, we use lemons.
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Very little effort – virtually no scrubbing – and BOOM! you have a perfectly clean and clean smelling microwave! Note that I did pull the plate out and used a dishrag to get the bits off in the kitchen sink. The gunk on the walls of the microwave sloughed right off with the same washrag.
Bonus: when you’re done take the bowl of lemons and throw them down the garbage disposal. Run it for a few seconds and now your garbage disposal smells great too!
I buy several lemons every time I head to the store. There are over 25 other household uses for lemons that you never knew you needed.
