Spring Greening

Ecofriendly cleaning products to whip your kitchen into shape.

, polishing and maintenance of the cookware. BKF is a mild abrasive powdered cleanser/polish that is available in most grocery stores or go to www.barkeepersfriend.com. To use BKF, make a soupy solution and rub in a circular...

I can use biodegradable soap with few problems, if I use dawn I have to reseason. Depends on the “grease cutting” ability of the soap.

Do you mean their material was degraded so they would become more biodegradable? That’s enough to make one eat some Haagen-Daz. (OK, now I have linked this thread to FOOD).

board, and eating utensils. You can pack these in a smallish tackle box. Clean up kit in a small pillowcase or ditty bag: small (cosmetic size) squeeze bottle of biodegradable dish soap, small sponge, tuffy pad, floursack...

Soapy sudsy sponge running along the insides against the pressure of your other hand.

But isn’t it just as bad to be using water and electricity/ gas to wash and dry them (Unless youre beating them on stones and line drying them....) versus tossing out a Vanity Fair napkin? Looks like they’d...

-consumption, carbon footprint, or whatever. Plastic isn’t biodegradable, but most waxed paper isn’t much better. I use waxed paper because I have it in the house, whereas I usually don’t have plastic wrap. You...

for a year, but it looks fantastic, and we do have some other Marmoleum-topped cabinets that look brand new after 10 years. What’s good about it as well is that if you do replace it years down the line, it’s completely...

Most of us love to cook. Clean up? Not so much. I keep a paper towel/damp sponge on the counter & wipe up as I cook. I also put utensils, bowls etc in the d/w as I cook. Both make clean up quicker & easier but I wonder if others...

mask the vinegar. For tough to remove food remnants in the sink or on the counter, I sprinkle some baking soda and just scrub with a damp sponge. This works very well. We have are very into green practices as well (in the kitchen...