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September 2009

Tips from Heloise and her readers

In the newspaper The State (South Carolina), one of Heloise's readers offered the following vinegar tip:

Burned-On Food
For food burned in a pan, I have found that an overnight soaking in vinegar lifts off the burned material. — Joy, via e-mail

In the Cantonrep.com (Ohio), Heloise offered a tip to use vinegar to clean eyeglasses:

Vinegar To Clean Eyeglasses
Dear Heloise: You had a solution with vinegar for cleaning eyeglasses. Would you please run it again? Thanks! — Dale Fisher, via e-mail

Dale, you bet! Especially in these tough times, it’s smart to use low-cost, safe products. For sparkling-clean windows, mirrors or your glasses, add 1/2 to 1 cup of vinegar to 1/2 gallon of water.

Put the solution in a labeled spray bottle. Wipe with a soft cloth so your eyeglasses don’t get scratched.

Also in the Cantonrep.com (Ohio), one of Heloise's readers offered a tip to use vinegar to deter ants:

No Ants!
Dear Heloise: My husband and I have been having bad ant problems lately in our kitchen, making a trail from the window to the pantry. We don’t want to use poison because we have two kitties that would definitely get into it.

We found that vinegar does the trick. We dipped a cotton ball in vinegar and swabbed the areas the ants would go. We haven’t had an ant since. — Gretchen Kennedy, Chantilly, VA

Cleaning Stainless Steel Sinks
The Sacromento Bee (California) offered one of Heloise's tips related to cleaning stainless steel sinks, which is noted below.

Spray sink with a mixture of white vinegar and water, and buff dry.