How to Clean Kitchen Appliances - Appliance cleaning tips
Keep your kitchen more efficient and sanitary by periodically deep cleaning all of your major appliances. Find out how to properly clean your kitchen appliances and other helpful kitchen cleaning tips with our How to Clean Your Kitchen Appliances guide: ****** Most kitchen appliances come in contact with food on a daily basis. Take steps to keep your food preparation hygienic and safe by making sure your appliances are sanitized. It's especially important to keep a clean refrigerator as it stores both raw and prepared foods, as well as drinks and other items. Many ovens come with a self-cleaning feature, which makes the appliance easy to deep clean. Cleaning the dishwasher, stove top and microwave can also be easily tackled using only warm soapy water and white vinegar. Jump to the appliance you’re looking to clean: How to Clean Your Refrigerator: ****** How to Clean Your Oven: ****** How to Clean Your Stove ****** How to Clean Your Microwave: ****** How to Clean Your Dishwasher: ****** Shop appliance cleaners and supplies at The Home Depot: ****** Watch our Cleaning Tips playlist: ****** Get more helpful home improvement tips, ideas, and projects. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ****** or watch now: ******
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The typical kitchen has many time-saving appliances
and most of them will come in
contact with food on a daily basis.
To be sure you're not contaminating your food
while storing and cooking it
you'll need to keep these appliances clean and
sanitized.
Perhaps the most important appliance in your kitchen is the
refrigerator.
Since it houses both raw and cooked foods as well as drinks and
other items.
It's important to keep it hygienic.
The easiest way to give it a
thorough cleaning is to remove all the food,
the shelves and the drawers first.
Soak the drawers, and shelves, and water and dish soap
while you wipe down
the interior from the top down.
Soap and water works best when cleaning
the interior.
Never use disinfectant cleaners like bleach, which can permeate
your food.
Many of today's ovens have a self-cleaning feature.
Always remove the
shelves before starting the cleaning cycle.
The oven will heat to extremely
high temperatures for several hours
and it will turn stuck on food to ash.
These high temperatures will also dull the shelves shiny appearance
and make the
shelves more difficult to slide.
Once the oven has cooled for several hours, sweep
up the ash.
When cleaning a stovetop, remove the burner grates and soak them
in dish soap and water.
If you have a gas stove, take off the burner caps and soak
them as well.
For electric stoves, disconnect the burner coils and hand
clean them with the sponge.
Clean loose food off the stovetop and wipe down the
stovetop and burner knobs with a sponge or towel.
A 1-to-1 mix of vinegar and
water works well,
but if there's built up grease present use dish soap instead.
A microwave cleanup is pretty straightforward.
Just remove the
turntable and soak it in soapy water.
Place a microwave-safe bowl of vinegar
and water in the oven and run it on high for 2 minutes.
The vinegar steam will eliminate odors
and it will loosen hardened food to make
cleaning the inside surfaces easier.
Lastly there's your dishwasher. Begin by
removing the racks
and wipe up any food and debris from the interior with a
sponge.
Then remove the filter that's
located in the drain. Empty the filter of
debris and soak it in soapy water.
Place the filter and shelves back into the
unit and place a cup of white vinegar
in the otherwise empty dishwasher.
Set the
dishwasher for its highest water temperature setting and run it for a
full cycle. This will loosen any remaining food and grease and get rid of
any odors.
If your kitchen features stainless steel, appliances it's best to
clean the exterior with a product specially formulated for this purpose.
Use mild detergent on non-stainless appliances
By periodically deep cleaning
your large kitchen appliances,
you'll keep them sanitary and running
efficiently.
For more detailed information about this and many other
projects, check out the DIY projects and ideas section of homedepot.com or talk
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