Clearing up

Some hints and tips for cleaning in the kitchen:

• soak pans in cold water
• use warm water  to scour pans
• sprinkle bicarbonate of soda in bottom of the dish where the brillo is stored
• for hard to clean pans, boil with small amount of water and fallen leaves
• scrape non-stick pans with an old credit card
• for dirty copper-bottomed pans rub with rhubarb leaves, chopped into small pieces and boiled in the pan, then put the dirty pan inside
• use the nets which onions come in, sewn up, as pot scrubbers
• for badly burned pans, sprinkle biscarb inside
• glass/pyrex sprinkle oven cleaner on
• enamel - lemon juice and salt, leave an hour, then non-abrasive scourer
• scrambled egg on pans - cold water
• rust - raw potato
• clean a stainless steel sink with fizzy soda water
• polish brown boots with a banana skin.