Works For Me Wednesday: Lemons

This week I am trying to be the not so messy mom as I work through my spring cleaning checklist. One big area is the kitchen. I have a fabulous built in wooden cutting board that my husband made. Wooden cutting boards are great because they are soft and so much better for your knives than other materials, they contain natural oils that can kill bacteria, and wood from fruit baring trees will add to the flavor of your cuisine, kind of like barrel aged wine. So obviously the wooden cutting board “works for me” the one problem I do have is that they have a tendency to retain odor. As a family that loves salmon this has become a problem.

That is until some friends of ours told us to try using lemon and see if it removed the salmon smell. So we rubbed a lemon over the cutting board let it sit for several minutes and removed it with hot water. Voila, the smell went from fish to fresh just like that and it stayed that way (until we had fish again). I have since looked into the lemon phenomenon and found that as an organic acid natural lemons can be used to disinfect, bleach, and clean all kinds of things. Run an empty dishwasher with lemon juice or put lemon rind in your garbage disposal for refreshing and deodorizing. If you like cleaning with vinegar, but aren’t a fan of the smell just add lemons. I guess you could say; if life gives you lemons, make lemonade and some natural and economical household cleaner.



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and if you have any other lemon uses please share, I would love to try them out!