50 Things to Do with Vinegar (Cooking, Cleaning, Laundry, Pet Tips)!

You may not have known this but there are actually  a TON of different things you can do with Vinegar from cooking and cleaning to first aid and gardening! Since vinegar is so inexpensive, this is a great way to save money!

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Cooking tips

1. Poach eggs – add some vinegar to help them keep their shape
2. Tenderizing meat – Add a little to marinades to help make the meat soft
3. Sticky pasta – add 1/4 teaspoon to a pot of boiling pasta water to help the pasta not be so sticky
4. Onion odors – rub vinegar on your hands after handling onion to get rid of the smell
5. Chocolate Cake moisture – add a teaspoon to a box of chocolate cake mix to add moisture
6. Too much salt – add a little vinegar to mask the salt
7. Perk up canned sauce or soup – add a little vinegar!
8. Rice – add a teaspoon of white distilled vinegar to boiling water to make the rice taste great
9. Keep eggs from cracking – add a tablespoon of white distilled vinegar to boiling water
10. Basic vinaigrette salad dressing – use 1 part white distilled vinegar to 4 parts oil

Pet Tips

1. Shiny Coat – Spray dog, cat, horse with 1 cup white distilled vinegar to 1 quart water.
   
2. Clean their ears – wipe out the ears with a cotton dipped in vinegar
3. Spray an area to keep the animal from spraying, or doing their bathroom business in a spot (always test spot first).
4. Water lines or Calcium build up on water bowls – wipe them down or let them soak in white distilled vinegar (some need to set overnight) and then rinse well.
5. Bye Bye Flies – spray any area outside where the animal goes to the bathroom to get rid of flies
6. Kill Fleas – add a little to their water every day
7. Healthy animal (use apple cider vingar with the “Mother” in their water every day) this is great for their health and bad breath
8. Remove Cat litter odor – let vinegar sit in cat litter box then rinse out
9. Cat fights – spray them with vinegar water while they are fighting
10. Spray the leaves of plants with vinegar to prevent cats from chewing on them.

Cleaning Tips

1. Cleaning solution – add 1/4 cup baking soda with 1 tablespoon liquid detergent. Then slowly add white distilled vinegar to make a thick creamy texture.
2. Deodorize a drain – Use 1 cup baking soda, and one cup hot white distilled vinegar. Wait 10 minutes and rinse with hot water
3. Clean out fridge with vinegar and water solution
4. Remove dors from dishwasher – use 2 cups white distilled vinegar inside an empty dishwasher and run cycle.
5. Clean counters with a cloth soaked in vinegar
6. Keep marks off glass – spray with white distilled vinegar and rinse with hot water then dry
7. Clean smelly and stained plastic food containers with vinegar
8. Lunch box odors – put a slice of bread that has been soaked in white distilled vinegar and leave overnight then remove and rinse the lunch box.
9. Clean the grill with half vinegar and half water before cleaning
10. Easily remove a label, price tag, sticker, etc – use a cloth soaked in white distilled vinegar, leave on until sticker slides right off.
11. Clean mirrors with it
12. Use as a steam iron cleaner
13. Wash walls with vinegar
14. Clean paintbrushes with vinegar
15. Use to clean tea pot
16. Clean microwave – remove splattered food and deodorize, boil a mixture of 1/4 cup vinegar and and one cup water inside the microwave for 1-2 minutes then clean out.
17. Toilet cleaner – Pour 1 cup of white vinegar in the toilet bowl, let it stand for 5 minutes and then flush it.
18. Deodorize room – spray 50/50 vinegar water mixture in the air in a stinky room
19. Smoke off clothes – Pour 1 cup of vinegar in a hot water tub then hang clothes above steam
20. Take stains out of clothes – Remove perspiration stains from clothes by applying one part vinegar and four parts water on the spot, rub and then rinse.

Laundry Tips

1. Brighten fabrics – when clothes is in the rinse cycle add half a cup of vinegar.
2. Remove grease from suede – dip a toothbrush in vinegar and gently brush over the grease.
3. Fabric softener – 1 part vinegar and 2 parts water in your fabric softener dispenser.
4. Mustard stain – dab with vinegar before washing
5. Prevent clothes from clinging – add 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar to the wash cycle.
6. Forget about clothes?! – Pour 3 cups of white distilled vinegar in the machine and wash the clothes in hot water after that run a normal cycle with laundry detergent. Will get moldy smell out.
7. Get rid of musky smells from cotton clothes – sprinkle with white distilled vinegar and then press them.
8. Remove soap residue on clothes by using white distilled vinegar in the final rinse.
9. Remove stains on clothing aby soaking in equal parts milk and white distilled vinegar.
10. Patent leather shoes and bags more shine – wipe down with a little vinegar.

 

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