Design | Wellness | Cabinetry
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.
We’ve all seen glass dividers in our favorite restaurants. They give us a glimpse of what’s being prepared in the kitchen without the distraction of the noise or heat. Have you ever considered putting the same concept in your kitchen?
Here’s an apartment in Stuttgart designed for a graphic designer featuring a glass divider. The glass protects anyone seated at the banquette from any pops or splatters at the cooktop. It also makes the range hood more effective at catching steam and odors.
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.