Dear Home Ec 101, My husband finally broke down and bought us a new stove and fridge last week. They delivered the stove and I’m so freaked out because he got a ceramic smooth top range. I told him I only wanted the coil burner type because the ceramic tops are such hard work to …
Dear Home Ec 101, I love your blog (and book), but have a question I don’t think has been addressed. We live in a small duplex with 5 animals (three dogs and two cats). While I’m learning to keep stuff clean -mostly 😉 – there is one recurring issue that I’ve been having. We have …
Dear Home-Ec 101,I am sorry if you have had this question before, but maybe it bears repeating. I live in hot and sticky Thailand, and I have noticed my tops are not smelling very fresh anymore when I perspire. I usually wash them in cold or warm water with liquid detergent then I hang them to dry. After …
Dear Home-Ec 101:I have a coffeemaker with a removable water reservoir. It turns out that it never totally empties, and now it smells musty. I have tried cleaning it with vinegar and denture tablets, as suggested. I live in southern Louisiana, and musty smells are a way of life, but not in my coffeemaker!Any other …
Dear Home Ec 101, I have lived in three apartments in the past five years, and everyone has had smoking stove burners. At my first apartment, I thought maybe the burners just had some cleaner left on them from the last tenants, so I took them out and cleaned them thoroughly with water. That didn’t …
Heather says: Not too long ago on Facebook, I got a question about acrylic flooring that had become cloudy. First I want to note that acrylic is a broad chemical term that simply means made of polymers or resins. So acrylic flooring can come in many forms, but in general people either mean linoleum, laminate, …
Heather says: I want to thank Method for being a sponsor of Home-Ec 101 this year. I’m choosy about who I want to work with here. I care about the influence I may have over some of your consumer choices. After flying out to San Francisco last March and meeting the founders of the company …
Dear Home-Ec 101, During the walk-through when we purchased our current home, we flushed our toilets but did not raise the lids. After we moved in, to our horror, two of our toilets were gross! First problem, I am told that it is hard water deposits, so when toilet waste is flushed down, stuff catches …
Heather says: When people ask what I do, after I joke about working in a bar, describe my job at FeedBlitz, talk about my SpinPicks app, I then have to explain Home-Ec101. This happens a lot and generally, I get the confused puppy head-tilt. I run a website on home economics -head tilt- I write …
Dear Home Ec 101, I burned a microfiber rag on my flat top range as I thought it was cool and was wiping it off. The regular ceramic stove top cleaners are not taking it off. How can I remove the melted microfiber from my stove? Signed,Stuck in Sturbridge Cleaning melted anything off of a …