Introduction

According to Mark Roemer Oakland, juicy and delicious food is often messy. While they may make you launder your clothes while eating them, they may leave a grimy mess all over your home. Let’s check out how you can remove grease from your home. 

The Discussion

1. Flour – When you have a grease spill on the countertop or oven while cooking, flour is the most easily accessible item. If you allow the grease to dry up, it would be very difficult to clean it off later. Just sprinkle some flour on the spill right away and let it sit there and soak up as much grease as possible. While this solution seems counterintuitive, it changes the grease from a sticky and viscous liquid to easily wipeable dry powder flakes. After the flour soaks up the grease, wipe it away with a rag and then rinse the area clean.

2. Dish soap – Flour is only going to be useful for recent wet grease spills. However, if the grease has dried for a long time, you need something else. You can use dish soap to get grease out of countertops, floors, clothes, and linens. Dish soap also comes to the rescue for cleaning grease from furniture upholstery.

Squirt a few drops of dish soap liquid on the grease and spread it out with your finger. Next, let it soak for about half an hour. After that, add a bit of hot water and scrub the area till the grease comes off. For clothes and linens, you can directly launder them in the washer. Soaps are designed to attach to the fat molecules and grease and wash them away.

3. Rubbing alcohol and salt – If the grease is spilled on fluffy and soft surfaces like rugs, carpets, or cushions, dish soap won’t do the job. You can’t throw them in the washer either. Instead, mix one part salt with four parts of rubbing alcohol and rub the mixture on the grease stain. After you work the alcohol and salt solution on the soft and fluffy surface and the grease starts to lift away, blot it out with paper towels. Once the grease is gone and the alcohol dries off, you can vacuum up the excess salt. 

4. Vinegar – Vinegar is the strongest domestic solution to grease. If this doesn’t do it, you need to buy commercial grease cutters. Spray white vinegar directly on the stain and let it soak for about five minutes. When the mild acid in the vinegar softens the grease and starts dissolving it, you can scrub it away with a sponge. It’s best to use hot vinegar for this purpose. After the grease is cleaned away, rinse the area with warm water and wipe it dry with a clean rag.      

Conclusion

Mark Roemer Oakland suggests that you use the above-mentioned methods for degreasing different parts of your home. While commercial degreasers can help you do away with the grimiest gunk, the other widely-available household products come in handy when you don’t have the time to visit the store.