The Stove Cleaning Secret My Mother Taught Me — The Old Italian Way

Get Linda's Cleaning Book, every method for the whole house 👇👇👇 https://lindacleaing.gumroad.com/l/Lindascleaning Go to your kitchen cupboard and take out the olive oil. Pour a capful onto a dry cloth and work it into the cool, clean steel beside your front burner until it's absorbed. That is it. Tomorrow, when the sauce spits and the oil pops, the splatter sits on top of that patch and wipes off with one warm pass. And this is only the first job. Olive oil is an old, patient grease that seals what's clean and feeds what's dry. Once you know that, nothing on this list will surprise you. THE SIX JOBS: THE STOVE. Clean it first (hot water, soap, steel wool on the baked spots), dry it, then a capful of oil worked into the steel or enamel until it disappears. Splatter lands on the film instead of the bare finish and wipes off warm. Once a month. STEEL AND ENAMEL ONLY. Never on the burners or grates, never on a warm stove, and thin means thin. THE CUTTING BOARD. Wash the wood, dry it, work oil into the grain end to end. Fed wood seals; dry wood cracks and holds what you don't want held. Once a month, the same evening you sharpen the knives. THE SQUEAK. Door hinges, sticky drawers, window tracks, the cellar latch. It is metal on metal with nothing between them. It was always oil. THE CAST IRON. A drop on the warm pan, rubbed in with a cloth after every wash, never soaked, never left wet. That is the seasoning. That is the whole secret nobody ever writes down because you just watch someone do it once and you never forget. THE COPPER. Oil and a pinch of salt on a soft cloth, worked in slow circles, and the dull lifts off in your hand. Rinse, dry, and it shines like new. THE PANTRY HINGE, THE OLIVE JAR LID. A film on the threads and they never seize. And a wipe inside the tin canister so the flour never sticks to the seam. THE HONEST WORDS: oil is not a cleaner. It seals, softens and loosens, so it goes on AFTER the cleaning, never instead of it. Never on anything still wet. Never on anything that gets hotter than the pan can hold. Never thick — the bottle should last a season. WHO PROFITS: the seasoning spray ($11), the wood conditioner ($9), the copper polish ($8), the stovetop shine ($10), the hinge oil ($7). Forty five dollars of bottles, and every one is oil wearing a label. Tonight: do the one patch beside the front burner, cook tomorrow, and wipe it warm. Then tell me in the comments what YOUR mother kept the olive oil bottle for, and your hometown. I read every one.