Kitchen Sink Cleaning -- with my thumbs!

In My Humble Opinion
1

I’m a live-alone bachelor, so, naturally…ick.

I went after my kitchen sink with a stiff brush, with Comet, with steel-wool… Little or no progress.

But then I started just rubbing away at the worst crud with my thumbs…and it worked! It’s sort of like working at the glue that holds price tags onto plastic. It sort of balled up under my skin. The crud came away from the porcelain!

What the heck is going on here? And…do they market artificial thumb skin products that work the same way?

(My guess is that dead skin cells are flaking off and getting mixed up with the sink-dirt, to form a goopy wad of crud that sticks to itself more than it sticks to the sink.)

2

your thumb is an uniform intact abrasive surface.

i’ve removed lots of goop that way.

a brush pushes it and leaves it behind. same with other items.

your skin is both abrasive enough plus picks it up.

3

Use the edge of an expired credit card. It takes tight crud off much better than any store-bought scrub pad. Even burned on food from the inside of a pan.

4

Get a couple of magic erasers. They’ll do the job. They’re also called Easy Erasers. Basically, just some melamine foam.

Once you use magic erasers you’ll find a lot of things easy to clean.

5

I will definitely be doing both of these things! Thank you!

6

You could probably use cooking oil to “melt” the goo. Let it soak in, then wipe with a paper towel. Then use hot water and a degreaser (such as 409) to get rid of the oil.

Hey, everyone has some kind of oil in the house.

7

GrumpyBunny: is it oil from my skin that is doing the good work for me?

I do have olive oil for cooking; I’ll try a dab of that.

(This is making household cleaning fun again! It’s like an episode of Doctor Science!)