

Neither vinegar nor lemon, the way to get a cloudy glass coffee carafe clear again in ten minutes

The grade on your maple syrup bottle changed meaning in 2015, and most people still buy by the old rules

The milk glass your grandmother kept in the china cabinet is worth checking before you donate it

Neither Dawn nor vinegar, the way to get the orange stains out of plastic containers after spaghetti sauce

Does the “sanitize” cycle on your dishwasher do anything, or is it just a longer wash

The blue cornflower Corning Ware in your mother’s cabinet can go from freezer to open flame, and the new ones can’t

Brown eggs cost more than white ones at your store, and the reason has nothing to do with what’s inside

People run their washing machine empty with two dishwasher tablets, here’s what it does to the drum

How long does a refrigerator actually last, and the sound it makes before it dies

KitchenAid mixers hide the year they were built in the serial number, and some from the 1980s still run daily

Before you microwave leftovers in a plastic tub, check for this label

Your Ball jars carry a logo that dates them to the decade, and the blue ones are the ones to check first

A piece of chalk in the silverware drawer, what it’s for and why it keeps the forks from tarnishing

The notch at the base of your chef’s knife has a name and a job most home cooks never use

Before you add anything to your mop water, check what your floor maker says





