Video: Microwave Cleaning Hack

REDWOOD CITY — Host, Sarah Rutan: Do you dread cleaning your microwave? Then you’ll want to learn a helpful hack for simplifying the job. Today we’re in Redwood City with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Jennifer Young of Elite Pro Home Cleaning to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Jennifer Young: In between your regular cleaning service it’s always good to maintain your microwave. Sometimes it can be difficult when food gets stuck on the turntable, or the door, or the walls. So here’s a quick tip for you: Fill up a glass bowl with water and add a couple of table spoons of white distilled vinegar. You could also add a little bit of lemon in there as well to give it a fresh scent.

For a more fun way to do it you can also get what’s called an Angry Mama, and the Angry Mama does the same thing. Basically what you do is you also pour the vinegar or the water in there and then you just put it in the microwave, and you do it for about seven minutes, and what happens is it actually creates a lot of steam in the microwave.

So after the seven minutes just let it sit in there for another two minutes so that it’s not too hot when you take it out. And then when you open up the microwave you take out either the glass bowl or the Angry Mama and you can actually use the solution in there to wipe down your microwave.

What you’re going to find is it’s actually going to take out – easily remove – all the food from the walls so that you’re not having to do a lot of scrubbing, and it’s a good green clean way to keep your microwave clean in between your cleaning services.

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