Potatoes are well known for their delicious flavor. We love them in the oven, mashed or fried as a side meal. The potato also has extraordinary cleaning properties that allow us to maintain our home clean. Indeed, this vegetable can restore shine to the tiling or even to our silverware in a finger’s snap. Find out more about this natural and environmentally friendly cleaning method.
1. Whiten your Curtains
If you want to whiten your curtains, use potato starch.
- Put your curtains in your washer.
- Add 2 spoonfuls of potato starch.
- Set your washer to 40 ° C.
Clean Silverware and Tin Objects
- Put the silverware and tin objects in a bowl filled with cooked potato water.
- Carefully dry them with a cloth.
Shine your Tile
- Take the cooking water from your cooked potatoes and pour it on your tiles.
- Rinse with a mop.
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Astuce de Grand-Mère
2. Degrease the Barbecue Grill
- Degrease your barbecue with a potato by heating the grill.
- Rub a potato cut in half on the grill, from top to bottom.
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3. Shine your Mirror
- Cut a potato in half and rub it on your mirror.
- Pass a cloth that you have soaked in white vinegar and water.
- Wipe the surface of your mirror with a cloth.
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Astuce de Grand-Mère
4. Shine your Stainless Steel Pans
- Cut a potato in half.
- Rub your steel pans.
- Rinse with lukewarm water.
- Wipe a soft cloth on your pots.
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Astuce de Grand-Mère
5. Wash your Walls and Switches
- Cut a potato in half.
- Rub the dirt with circular motions.
- Wipe with a dry cloth.
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6. Clean your White Doors
- Cut a potato in two
- Rub your white doors.
- Rinse
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