“For some reason all of us knew this was about the saddest thing we had ever seen.”
If you want a mostly pointless hack for aspirin, you can use it to make invisible ink. Just crush some aspirin tablets and dissolve them in water.
There’s a complicated process that will make the resulting “ink” visible in normal light. But a more common way is to use a UV light; the aspirin ink will be visible under a UV light.
The only use I can think of for this information is if you’re trying to sneak into a nightclub without paying the cover charge.
I’ve found that baby oil does a good job of removing band-aid adhesive residue. Unlike WD-40 it won’t leave you smelling like a gas station but then I don’t know if smelling like a baby’s butt is better.
For anything oily or greasy–whether animal (such as pork fat on a cutting board), vegetable (a puddle of cooking oil), or mineral (motor oil, etc), dump baking soda on the mess and rub the baking soda around until it incorporates the grease/oil. Grease plus a base equals soap. Keep rubbing until you’ve got a soapy mess. Most of it will wash away with hot water. You may need to add more baking soda.
If there is any residue, Dawn should clean it up nicely.
~VOW
So all this talk about cola myths has me wondering. I’ve successfully used cola to dissolve mineral deposits on a seldom-used toilet. Cola also got rid of corrosion on a car battery.
Those experiences make it seem like cola might be a little rough on your teeth, except all I can find is that all sugary soda is bad because it contains sugars and phosphoric acid. Does this mean that any kind of soda would work on mineral deposits or corrosion? Or does cola have more phosphoric acid than, say, Sprite? Or is it just…you know…magic?
I suspect it’s the acid in the soda that does the cleaning job.
Me, I use white vinegar for those jobs. Again, it’s the acid that does the work.
And sure, acid isn’t good for your teeth, either. That’s why bulimics who vomit a lot can wind up with eroded teeth. But your mouth tries to dilute acid foods and drinks with saliva, which is mostly water. The sugar in sugary foods is bad for your teeth because bacteria in your mouth convert it to acid as part of their metabolism. It’s yet another reason to drink water, it dilutes acids and other damaging stuff you consume and helps protect your tooth enamel.
What’s interesting is that I tried vinegar on the mineral deposits on the toilet, and it didn’t do much, even with scrubbing. I also tried CLR and other cleaners. I expected the cola would do nothing and was astounded when it dissolved the deposit within a minute or two. Swish, swish, done. So weird.
Wish I had mineral deposits so I could try other sodas to see if they’d work.
ETA: I found this:
Coca-Cola contains three acids : citric acid, tartaric acid and (most prevalently) phosphoric acid. All of these acids work together to remove rust and other deposits, but the phosphoric acid is especially useful because it contains a stronger acidic concentration than those commonly found in natural cleaning products. Other colas such as Pepsi contain similar ingredients and can serve the same cleaning purpose… Phosphoric acid is found in most dark-colored sodas.
Was shaving and dinged my neck. Couldn’t find my styptic pencil. Found a bottle of enteric coated ASA and bit through the coating, putting the exposed tablet right onto the cut. Worked about as well as the alum in a pencil, so I’m going to say this one seems to work for moderate dings.
Products such as Lime-Away are phosphoric acid solutions, and they work for mineral deposits around your faucets and on your glass shower doors. If you’d rather not use something that ferocious, here’s a hack from Hints from Heloise. Shake table salt on a fresh-cut piece of lemon, and scrub the gunk away with that.
I just soaked the sneakers in a bucket of water with dawn. Left them for 4 hours and then left them to dry in the sun for the rest of the day. No luck. Still smell of diesel. Not quite as bad as before but not exactly a success. Which makes me wonder if it’s all that effective on ducks or if their duck friends end up shunning them.
Pretty sure they’re putting it on oil-soaked ducks straight, without diluting it in water. Try that. Then rub it in with a brush and a little elbow grease. Then rinse with lots of water until you don’t get any more suds.
Any advice for removing vegetable oil stains from a painted ceiling? I was experimenting with different ways of making fried chicken when the oil became overzealous.
I’m no expert, but I don’t think you can, if it’s already stained. Oil seems to soak right into some paints. Esp latex.
You will need to seal the oil stain before repainting the ceiling. Otherwise, it will “burn” through the new paint and your stain will still be visible. Talk to your paint purveyor. Someyimes a good base coat paint has a sealer in it, and it will cover all your troubles.
If your chicken frying efforts spattered the CEILING, you’re damned lucky you didn’t have a grease fire!
~VOW
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It’s just fish oil. Use Dawn dishwashing detergent, or some other degreaser, to do that.
ive seen allsorts of books claiming things like in this thread … with the titles along the line “1001 kitchen secrets”
And just worth noting that you stomach acid has a pH of about 1.5 - 3, whereas Coke has a pH of about 2.5.
So your stomach is expected to cope with a more acid environment than that produced by swilling soda …
Duct tape?
Seriously I think soap and water will do it.
That’s for getting bubblegum out of your hair.