cleaning

I never knew this kind of cleaning out/sorting through things had a name until just recently when I was looking for plastic boxes/bins and wire baskets so I could clean out and organize our pantry and refrigerators/freezers and came across the name. It's recommended that you do this...

I've been using a last from poo pourri book for last 5 years. She charges $50 for all internal surfaces and does a dam good job. I couldn't find her to start with but I found out she has remarried and last name is changed. Anywho shes due here now and rate is now $55. Do you guys get someone in? It...

The stories hit the news every now and then, stories about food contamination, either in foods at the grocery stores or at home, due to lack of good sanitation. There are stories of restaurant chains being sued by customers who later were found to have intentionally slipped a cut off human...

We have a lady due to clean our oven, she charges $50 for 30 to 40 mins work and does a first class job. caseydog said he didn't know if he would pay someone that? It's not a job I would want to do and obviously not my wife as she got hold of this lady who does it full time. Who does yours and...

The squid I purchased for the previous stuffed squid recipe was already partially cleaned. (The ink sac had been removed, as well as some of the cartilage; and the purple-ish "skin" on the outside of the tube portion of the squid had been peeled off - which is totally unnecessary but some folk...

I have a maytag fridge freezer and I got up this morning with daughter saying, water isn't working on fridge door and yoghurt was frozen and other stuff. The fridge has a fan at top left, with daughter and her son here the fridge is full, food and kids stuff, yoghurt fruit (inpottles) cheeses...

We all have cleaning jobs we dislike - what is your most disliked cleaning job in the kitchen? Mine is emptying the kitchen bin (or bins) and keeping them clean. Why hasn't someone invented a disposable eco friendly pop-up kitchen bin? Next is cleaning the oven - but I get a company in to do that.

So from another thread I remembered some of, but not all of the recipe for making your own air freshener. It left me thinking that we really should have a thread about these, recipes made as normal perhaps or at least something listing what can be done with that orange peel or lemon peel you...

We have a (supposedly) self-cleaning oven but it doesn't seem to apply to the bottom of it which things spill on and then turn a hard, black carbon kind of texture. I've been told I should use one of those spray foam cleaners on it that you leave for a few hours and it eats away at the gunk...

I have always been told that raw chicken contains harmful bacteria so you should clean up afterwards very thoroughly. What do you use to wipe down your surfaces and chopping board after you have prepared raw chicken? And is there anything you should do differently to when you clean up after...