BROWSE HOW TOs

How to Use Bread as a Household Cleaner

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Bread is a delicious and nutritious food found in almost every home across America and the world, but its alternative uses often go overlooked. Plain traditional sliced bread can be used around your house in a number of ways as a household cleaner. The next time cleaning day arrives, think about your breadbox. Read on to learn more.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Step1

Brighten your artificial flowers quickly and easily with a piece of moist bread. Typical household cleaners can damage the materials used to create artificial flowers, so bread is the perfect alternative. Brush off any excess dust from the flower petals with a shaving brush or soft-bristled paintbrush. Gently rub the petals and leaves of your artificial flowers with a piece of fresh moist bread and brush the surfaces again, making your flowers bright and clean like new.

Step2

Save your hands and feet from fine pieces of broken glass by using a piece of moist bread. Small pieces of broken glass can be a challenge to pick up with a broom and dust pan, leaving sharp hazards for bare feet. The bread will quickly pick up small glass shards without the use of your delicate hands. When clean, wrap the bread in a piece of newspaper and throw in the bin.

Step3

Turn a piece of bread into a handy household cleaner. Remove the soft moist center of a piece of fresh bread and roll it into a ball. Use the bread like an eraser to remove grubby fingerprints from light switches, wall paper or even books and old prints. Soft rolled bread will also remove crayon from your cabinets and walls.

Step4

Use a piece of bread to clean your meat mincer. Before you are ready to use the mincer, run a piece of fresh bread through the machine to clear out any dust that has build up in the small grooves. Once you are done mincing the meat, run another piece of fresh bread through the machine to clear out any fat or pieces of meat that are stuck in the machine.