Spring Cleaning

To keep your dishwasher smelling fresh run a cycle (without dishes) using powdered lemonade instead of dishwashing detergent. Not only will this deodorize the dishwasher, but it will help remove the hard water stains. If your dishwasher interior just seems to retain odors put a few teaspoons of baking soda on the floor of the dishwasher and leave it overnight. Baking soda does a great job of absorbing odors and it will wash away during the next regular wash cycle. Finally, some dishwashers have filters that need cleaning. Be sure to follow the manufacturer's directions and clean out the filters often.

Tips for cleaning your oven. There are 3 types of oven interiors. self-cleaning, continuous cleaning, and conventional cleaning. Self-cleaning ovens are also described as pyrolytic ovens. They have a cleaning cycle whereby the oven locks and the interior temperature reaches very high heat and turns any baked on materials sticking to the oven interior into ash. The ash can be easily swept out of the oven after the cleaning cycle. Before cleaning remove the oven racks and any loose material and follow the oven instructions. Typically, this means the oven will lock for 2, 3, or 4 hours for light, medium, or heavy soil. At the end of the cycle and after cool down the oven will unlock so that you may brush out the ash. Then wipe the oven with a soft damp cloth. Continuous cleaning ovens, often referred to as catalytic ovens, have an oven coating that will absorb and spread minor spills. Large spills need to be removed and wiped off to prevent staining the oven cavity. Never use any abrasive material or commercial oven cleaner in a continuous cleaning oven. Conventional or standard cleaning ovens have neither a self-cleaning cycle nor a continuous cleaning coating. There are 2 ways to clean a standard cleaning oven. The first method we recognize as "elbow grease". An easier way is to use a commercial oven cleaning product. These are typically caustic chemicals so wear oven gloves and make sure that there is adequate ventilation so that your eyes are

Spring is in the air. But before you rush out to frolic among the daisies, there is that other thing that comes with the season - Spring Cleaning. We've been consulting our experts and have some really good appliance cleaining tips to give you that will save you time and money and make your appliances sparkle. Another good idea, since this season is all about renewal, would be to hurry on down to Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center and just replace all those dusty and dirty appliances with shiny new ones. The team at Universal will have just the appliance recommendations to brighten your spring and save you money too. Visit them at 12050 Ventura Boulevard Suite B-105, Studio City, CA 91604 PH 877 696-2982. Of course, you'd still have to clean up those existing dirty ones in your home before sending them on their way soooo we are going to publish some really great appliance cleaning recommendations right here on this blog over the course of the next several days. So subscribe to our blog now for regular updates. Or check back each day to get some great cleaning tips for your refrigerator, your dishwasher, your oven, your microwave, and your vent hood. You won't want to miss them. Afterwards, you have our permission to go frolic among the daisies.