HOW TO CLEAN THE MICROWAVE

Housekeeper services from Virginia Housekeepers can include cleaning of your microwave oven. To clean it by yourself, consider these techniques:

This is a pretty straightforward appliance to clean, but there are a few tricks, such as this one, for an especially difficult (messy, caked-on grief) microwave situation:

• Add a quarter cup of vinegar to one cup of water and boil the solution in your microwave for three minutes. The walls of the oven’s interior will be coated with scalding hot acidic humidity.
• No elbow grease required: simply sponge away the mess.

Another trick to tackle odors in the microwave:

• Leave a dish of vinegar in the microwave overnight
• Repeat nightly until odor disappears