Monday, January 14, 2013

Cleaner homemade cleaner - not just for wood stove glass panes

Global warming or chemicals?

The K-Landnews popular science team has ranked chemicals as a threat at least on par with global warming and considers chemicals much more creepy.

We hand it to our critics that "creepy" is not a strictly scientific term, but you understand what we mean.  Getting crushed by an uprooted tree or getting devoured by a chemicals-induced cancer, the result may be the same, but until that tree falls on you, it won't change your genes to make your children monsters.

Don't detract, we know that most children are monsters at some point, but that's a different subject.

Recently, we took a van full of K-Landnews people to the supermarket, where they dispersed in the cleaning supplies section and did something rarely witnessed: they read the labels before putting cleaners in the cart.

The main finding: there so many identical cleaners out there that this fact alone disproves the "efficiency of the free market".

The one type of cleaner we were after, a cleaner for the fire box glass pane of wood stoves, fell right into the "they are all the same category".

Having expended some gas, some manpower, some womenpower, we headed back and found the Foxfire books in one of the unopened moving boxes. According to them, a wet rag with a little ash from this very firebox should be a good cleaner. We tried it -- marvelous, despite Slate mag's trashing of the Foxfire collection last year.

With the European Union busy protecting us from "novel food" that has been around for thousands of years, we take matters into our own hand.

As any boy or girl scout will tell you, wood ash works great on plates and pots too. If you care to read the Foxfire books or this instructable on Mother Earth News, you'll understand why: wood ash, water and fat make instant soap right in the pot or on the plate.

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