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Do you know what's under your kitchen sink?
Today, I completely emptied the cabinet under the kitchen sink in order to replace my crappy builder's faucet with a taller, sexier, easier to clean model (YAY!). Naturally, having all that stuff spread out on the kitchen floor got me to wondering what's under other SeriousEaters' sinks... here's my inventory:
• Bar Keeper's Friend (of course)
• Baking soda in a cheese shaker for quick sink cleanups, scrubbing vegetables, etc.
• Mineral oil for my chopping block
• White vinegar in a re-used squirt-top bottle for cleaning my chopping block, removing water spots, general cleaning
• Spray bottle of liquid laundry detergent mixed with ammonia and water (general purpose cleaner and degreaser)
• Dawn Ultra dish detergent
• Cascade Complete dishwasher powder (Costco size)
• Two packs of exam gloves, medium for the females, large for the males (guess which one's still mostly full)
• Carbonara for glass stovetops (great on my enameled stovetop)
• Dish strainer (seldom used, but oh so handy when I need it)
• Cutting board exclusively for raw meats
• Plastic grocery sacks waiting to carry teenaged son's gigantic lunches to school, sending things home with other people, etc.
• Long handled brush for the coffee pot, flower vases, and things even my tiny hands can't get into
• Old soft toothbrushes for detailing
• Plastic scrubbers (the kind that look like a wad of netting)
• Garbage bin for non-recyclables (recycling bin has its own larger pull-out cabinet)
• Box of plastic garbage liners
• Ozium air sanitizer for when teenaged son fails to empty garbage bin, usually when it contains raw meat trimmings
• And a strange, neon-orange flyswatter that I've never used (I think it was left as a "gift" by the builder... um, gee... thanks?)
So? Tell us what's under yours! (think of it as the foodies' version of snooping in the medicine cabinet )
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