Tips and Tricks: A Sexy Microwave

Ello!  I hope this post finds you all well, and your microwaves nice and gross.  I've decided to start a..uh.. blog-category-thingy.  I have no idea what to call it… called Tips and Tricks!  I'll be sharing tips and tricks on lots of stuff!  I REALLY wanted to do a post about my sinks!  It's amazing, and the best thing ever, but I forgot to take a BEFORE picture!  And, well,  that would have just been a garbage post without the shock and awe of a before and after.  

So..!  Let me give you a little background on my decision for why I clean my microwave this way.  Wow.. is this what my life has come to?  I am giving you BACKGROUND on why I clean my MICROWAVE the way I do?!  Please someone, sell me a life.  Sometime a go I was cleaning my microwave with All-Purpose cleaner.  The same thing I used on my countertops, sink, everything.  Let's say it was…409.  I would start on one end of my kitchen, work my way around, and spray and wipe as I went.  I didn't think to much of it.  Then for some reason one day after cleaning the kitchen, I thought, "I need to use the microwave, and I just filled it with chemicals…Now I'm going to put food in there, heat up the chemical fumes and food, then consume it."  This didn't sit well with me, so I went searching.  I found several "all natural"  "do it/make it yourself" options, but this is what seemed easiest.  (For I am a lazinian.)  Yes I just made that up.  Yes it means lazy sloppy bum.  Yes it sounds better than lazy sloppy bum.  Here we go!

Fill a bowl with water, and add a few drops of a citrus of your choice.  

Put the bowl in the microwave, and run it on high power for 5-10 minutes.  (Depending on your level of nastiness.)  About the time I head back to the microwave because I remember I need to cover something, I hear, "BANG", and the guts of whatever I was going to eat is splattered everywhere.  Here is my nastiness:

Oh yea.. Get a good look.  Maybe I should have a prize to whoever guesses what I had for lunch?

After the microwave *bings* leave it shut for 5 minutes, allowing the steam to really do it's job.  You can sweep the floor, wipe down the counters, throw the dishes in the dishwasher, eat a cookie, while the microwave cleans itself.  

When your five minutes is up take a cleaning cloth of your choice, (mine is microfiber) and do a quick wipe down.

(Can you see the condensation?)

When you are finished you will have one sexy, clean, chemical free, free to clean microwave!  Come on people, it's the little things.  Bow chicka wow wow!