I believe the best way to clean well in the kitchen, without harsh chemicals, is to use hot water, soap and a variety of brushes. The brushes in the photo are those I use in my kitchen every day. I have a dish brush, a scrubbing brush, a small round brush to get into smallish spaces, a toothbrush for cleaning around the taps and the top of the drain and, of course, a bottle brush for cleaning out metal water bottles, preserving jars, ginger beer and cordial bottles.
Brushing will give you a deep clean without ruining the surface of any appliance, pot or plate. If you use hot water and soap with a brush to clean, then rinse that off with hot water and dry, you'll get a very clean result. The answer to whatever kitchen cleaning question you have is usually elbow grease, hot water and soap, not smearing on chemicals. Who knows what reside gets left behind with the chemicals.
You don't hear much about brushing as a way of cleaning but that's not because it doesn't work. It's because no one makes money out of it. I'm here to tell you it works well. Try it, I'm sure you'll be surprised. Don't forget to disinfect your brushes regularly and they'll last a long time.
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I've been contacted by two respected organisations who want as many of us as possible to complete surveys for them. The first is an Australian organisation, the Simplicity Institute. Now that simple living is being seen in the mainstream as a viable alternative lifestyle, I think it wise for us to talk about how we live. I hope you have time for these surveys.
If you live a 'simple' lifestyle in one way or another, we need your help!
The Simplicity Institute is an organization dedicated to research and policy analysis around the topic of simple living, downshifting, and similar lifestyles. This research is profoundly important as it touches the core of global problems such as climate change, over-consumption, work-life balance and a host of other social and ecological issues.
If you live a 'simple' lifestyle in one way or another, we need your help!
The Simplicity Institute is an organization dedicated to research and policy analysis around the topic of simple living, downshifting, and similar lifestyles. This research is profoundly important as it touches the core of global problems such as climate change, over-consumption, work-life balance and a host of other social and ecological issues.
The Simplicity Institute's current research project is focused on people who have chosen a 'simpler' lifestyle, including changes such as reduced or restrained income, reduced consumption or reduced working hours.
If this sounds like you, then you are part of the most promising social movement on the planet. Learning more about people like you is therefore extremely important, so if you can spare 4 minutes to answer some quick questions then please do! As an added incentive, if you participate you'll go into the draw to win an exciting book package on the topic of 'simple living'.
If this sounds like you, then you are part of the most promising social movement on the planet. Learning more about people like you is therefore extremely important, so if you can spare 4 minutes to answer some quick questions then please do! As an added incentive, if you participate you'll go into the draw to win an exciting book package on the topic of 'simple living'.
To learn more and help build a better future,
click: http://simplicityinstitute.org/phpQ/fillsurvey.php?sid=2
The second is:
We are a group of students from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Florida International University. We are currently conducting a study on social media, bloggers and participants as part of our Communication Research course. As a blog publisher, we would greatly appreciate your sharing with us your opinions on various topics related to your blogging experience by filling out a short survey. Although participation is completely voluntary and you can decline participation, we do value your perspective and knowledge and therefore hope to have your response.
As our research attempts to learn about blog readers too, we would ask you to kindly distribute the survey link to your automated mailing list or post it on your blog.
The survey will take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete and you can access it through the link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greenliving_sybil
The second is:
We are a group of students from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Florida International University. We are currently conducting a study on social media, bloggers and participants as part of our Communication Research course. As a blog publisher, we would greatly appreciate your sharing with us your opinions on various topics related to your blogging experience by filling out a short survey. Although participation is completely voluntary and you can decline participation, we do value your perspective and knowledge and therefore hope to have your response.
As our research attempts to learn about blog readers too, we would ask you to kindly distribute the survey link to your automated mailing list or post it on your blog.
The survey will take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete and you can access it through the link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greenliving_sybil
This survey is anonymous and does not require any identifying information. We can assure you that data will be kept confidential and results will be aggregated in a way that individual responses cannot be linked to their sources.
Please pass these links along to your networks.
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Today is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day in Australia. I've been asked to speak at a local Women's Day function. I'm not sure how many people will turn up but I know we'll have lunch, talk and have fun. I hope you enjoy your day too. Do you celebrate International Women's Day? Are you doing something special?