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Clean your dishwasher with Lemonade Kool-Aid?
According to the folks at Life-Hacker, running your empty dishwasher with a
Lemonade Kool-Aid packet in the detergent cup will clean lime deposits and iron stains.
Don’t try using other flavors, it’s the citric acid in the Lemonade that attacks the stains.
I’ve heard that Tang works too but I have not tried it.
With Black Friday quickly approaching I thought I’d share a post from Laurie at Kitchen Design Notes.
She writes about the importance of being mindful this Holiday Season of the waste our wrapped gifts can create. If each American family wrapped just three presents in recyclable materials, we would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields.
For people who aren’t crafty I like one of her suggestions of “wrapping” a gift in a towel. If you are staying with a relative or friend for the holiday a monogrammed hand towel wrapped around your gift tied with a grosgrain ribbon is perfect.
My family often decorates packages with ornaments. It adds a great decorative touch and can be enjoyed year after year.
I’d love to hear about other great things people do.
Very soon Diva de Provencewill be making it’s new Diva 365 induction range available . The 36-inch stainless steel professional range is an industry first, combining an all-electric convection self-cleaning oven with a five burner induction cooktop.The five burner Diva Induction cooktop utilizes electromagnetic energy that heats only the cookware. The onyx vitroceramic glass surface remains cool to the touch providing easy clean up of spilled food that would typically burn on the surface of a regular cooktop. Also, Diva Induction Cooktops heat food faster, boiling water in half the time of the most powerful gas or electric burner, while the kitchen stays cool. This rapid heating process saves time and energy.Not all pots and pans will work for induction cooking. For your cookware to work on induction it requires a ferrous metal base or layer. This ferrous metal is necessary as it is the layer that will get hot when placed in the electromagnetic field. Generally speaking, most stainless steel cookware and cast iron cookware will work on induction cooktops. Copper, glass and aluminum cookware will not work on induction. To test your cookware to see if it will work on induction, try to stick a magnet to the base. If it sticks it will work.
Edison’s invention may stay around a little longer now that GE has begun work on creating a high efficiency incandescent light bulb that will be as energy efficient as a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) and deliver high-quality light output.
Over the last four years GE has invested over $200 million in the development of their high efficiency incandescent (HEI). GE has set a target for these new lamps at initial production to be nearly twice as efficient as current incandescents and deliver 30 Lumens per watt. Their later goal is for the HEI bulb to be four times as efficient and comparable to CFL bulbs.
In addition to desirable light quality, GE says the new HEI lamp will have instant-on convenience and be priced less than current CFLs. Don’t worry about waiting for the CFLs you just bought to burn out; these new HEI lamps won’t be on the market until 2010.