Stop Buying Dish Soap... This $3 AMISH Recipe Lasts 8 Months

My name is Darlene Hollis. I cooked in a school kitchen for thirty-five years, four hundred children a day, and you learn what gets a pan clean and what is just perfume and advertising. You buy a bottle of dish soap every month. When the sink goes flat you squirt in more, because foam is supposed to mean clean. And the bottle runs empty again anyway. You did nothing wrong. You were taught to watch the suds. Suds do not wash dishes. Soap does. The foam is the costume. My mother Ada said soap has two hands, one that holds grease and one that holds water, and it walks the grease down the drain. Most of us have hard water, and those minerals grab the soap before the grease can. Washing soda ties up the minerals so the soap is free to work. The USDA was printing bulletins on this in the 1920s, and it was taught across Tennessee into the 1940s. One plain five-ounce bar, grated and melted into four cups of steaming water, with two level tablespoons of washing soda. Two quart jars, set overnight into a soft gel. About three dollars a batch, and two batches cover my year. The bottle ran me about four dollars a month, close to fifty a year. Six dollars against fifty. In this video I show you how to make the sink jar, why washing soda matters in hard water, how much to use per dishpan, how to loosen a stiff batch, how to wipe a greasy pan, the baking soda paste for baked-on food, how to soak a scorched pot, and what to do with soap slivers. I also tell you where it falls short. It does not foam, and it will not cut fried-chicken grease like store detergent, so I still keep one bottle for those nights. --- **WHAT YOU WILL NEED** Plain bar of soap, about five ounces, $1.25 Washing soda, about $5 a box Box grater Two quart mason jars Baking soda, about $1 Rubber gloves or a dish brush **A WORD OF CAUTION** Never put this in a dishwasher machine, or you will have a floor full of foam. Keep washing soda off aluminum, because it darkens it for good. And it is hard on your hands, so use a brush or rubber gloves. Subscribe for the plain kitchen know-how that quit being handed down. #homemadedishsoap #diydishsoap #washingsoda #frugalliving #oldfashionedliving #homemaking #savemoney #frugalkitchen