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In a similar vein, you can get even porous dishware remarkably clean by scrubbing them out with salt and letting them bake in direct light for a while. This wo
by hprotagonist 8y ago
In a similar vein, you can get even porous dishware remarkably clean by scrubbing them out with salt and letting them bake in direct light for a while.
This works reasonably welly while car-camping or situations where doing dishes is annoying, or water is scarce but sunlight's plentiful.
direct sunlight for baking off mold and mildew and bleaching whites are other old but effective tricks.
- tralarpa 8y ago> bleaching whites This only works on a lawn, doesn't it? The combination of grass, sun and water produces hydrogen peroxide.
- thevardanian 8y agoPeople used wash their dishes with the ash from the stove. It acts both as an abrasive, and an absorbent.
- Double_a_92 8y agoAlso ash has a very basic pH value.
- divbyzer0 8y agoSoap was traditionally made from the ashes of hardwoods combined with rain water (higher nitrogen content). https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ash-Soap https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ash-Soap