Lemon is a popular tropical fruit with a peculiar sour taste. Lemon is used in its pure form, added to tea, marinades, the fruit itself and its zest are found in many recipes. However, in addition to cooking, there are many other uses of lemon and its zest in everyday life.
Lemon Cleaning Properties
With lemon, you can easily cleanse greasy deposits in pots and gas rings. To do this, take a half of the lemon, pour a small amount of salt on it and rub the greasy stain. After that, simply wipe the surface with a damp cloth and wipe dry. Care must be taken when cleaning surfaces that are very sensitive to acids, such as marble.
Accumulated scale in a coffee maker or kettle can be cleaned with lemon peel. To clean the teapot, you need to fill it with water, add the finely chopped zest of one lemon and put to boil. When the water boils, turn off the heat and let stand for an hour. After this, drain the water, rinse the kettle thoroughly. To clean the coffee maker, you need to put lemon zest, salt and ice in it, shake it for a couple of minutes, pour out the contents and rinse the coffee maker.
Lemon zest can help cleanse greasy stains and dried food debris from the microwave. To do this, you need to take any dishes for the microwave, fill it with water up to half, add a little lemon zest. Now you need to turn on the microwave at full power for 5-6 minutes. When the water begins to boil, and the steam condenses, plaque from the walls of the furnace can easily be removed with a damp cloth.
Polishing properties of lemon
Mineral deposits often accumulate on chrome surfaces, such as a faucet. You can squeeze half a lemon and wipe it with such a surface. Then rinse and lightly polish with a soft cloth. In the same way, you can clean the stainless steel sink.
To polish dishes made of copper or brass, with the same half of the lemon you need to rub the place of contamination and leave for 10-15 minutes, then rinse and wipe dry.
The refreshing and deodorizing properties of lemon
You can disinfect, for example, a cutting board by wiping it with half a lemon, and then washing. Lemon and its zest can also deodorize the bin, creating a fresh aroma in the kitchen.
Lemon zest can make a freshener and a humidifier. To do this, put the lemon zest in any dish and put it to warm up when the water boils, make the fire minimal and leave it for half an hour. The air will become moist, the apartment will be filled with a pleasant aroma.
