DIY Citrus Cleaner

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When I'm cleaning my kitchen at home,

I try to avoid using really gnarly chemicals

so instead what I prefer to use

is distilled white vinegar, you put it

in a spray bottle, spray it on everything,

the only problem is that it does make your kitchen

kind of smell like a fish and chip shop.

Enter citrus vinegar.

It's especially nice during the wintertime

when you have big cases of citrus

available in every supermarket,

it's just the kind of thing that you have

on your counter for a snack.

If you save the peels, pour vinegar over them,

wait a little bit, you'll have

an awesome, delicious-smelling cleanser.

You can just keep a jar like this in your fridge.

Whenever you have a peel, just sling it right in there.

You don't want any of the fruit

'cause that will add some sugar to the mixture

and will kind of make things a little sticky,

so you're just looking for the clean peel and pith.

It's perfect for things like clementines

and navel oranges and really can use

any citrus that you want.

Alright cool, now that we have this jar

full of citrus peels, we're gonna take

distilled white vinegar and we're

just gonna pour it in to cover our citrus peels.

Put a lid on it, we're gonna let this sit out

at room temperature for a week, two weeks

is kinda optimal, that's gonna give it

plenty of time to extract all those oils

from the citrus peels, which is what's gonna give

the citrus vinegar it's bright, citrus-y scent.

Here is some citrus vinegar that I made

a couple of weeks ago, you can see it just

kind of took on a little bit

of the yellow color from that citrus.

You just pour it into a bottle

and then you're ready to clean everything.

You can clean the sink, you can clean the refrigerator,

you can clean your filthy mouth.

(coughing)

healthy-ish.

Maybe not in the mouth.

Should I clean other things?

[Man] No.