She Uses These Items To Clean Something That Is WAY Dirtier Than You Think!

Because so much food goes down there it can really become a cesspool.  Often times the garbage disposal does not get run long enough and food sits there for too long–not pretty.

Here is what you need:

• baking soda
• vinegar
• ice
• rock salt
• lemon
• boiling water

According to the nice folks at apartment therapy, here is what you do:

Sprinkle a half cup of baking soda down the disposal then add one cup of white vinegar. The mixture will fizz and make a bit of noise, allow this to work for a few minutes while you boil a kettle of hot water.

Pour boiling water down the drain.
Fill the drain with two cups of ice.

Pour a cup of salt (rock salt is great if you have it, I improvised with coarse sea salt) over the ice cubes.

Run the cold water and turn on the garbage disposal until the ice is gone. The ice/salt mixture will help loosen the grime and debris from the grinding elements

Cut a lemon or lime in half. With the water on and garbage disposal running, add the fruit halves, one at a time, to the disposal. The fruit will help clean and deodorize your drain.

This may seem like quite a process but just do it once every couple of weeks to keep your drain and garbage disposal kept up.  Your sink will thank you!

Do you have a system for cleaning an often neglected area of the home?  Tell us about it!

Thanks apartmenttherapy for the pic and the good advice!