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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 clean microwave 345g

Recipe makes 1 clean microwave)

Calories 21
Calories from Fat 2 (13%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 0.3g 0%
Saturated Fat 0.0g 0%
Monounsaturated Fat 0.0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 7mg 0%
Potassium 156mg 4%
Total Carbohydrate 11.6g 3%
Dietary Fiber 5.1g 20%
Sugars 0.0g
Protein 1.3g 2%

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Easy Homemade Microwave Cleaner

Recipe #82412 | 2 min | 1 min prep | add private note

By: Charishma Ramchandani
Jan 29, 2004

Cleaning your microwave couldn't get any easier than this!

1 clean microwave (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    Boil a cup of water with lemon slices in your dirty microwave for 20 seconds.
  2. 2
    This will loosen the hardened food particles inside and your microwave will look brand NEW!

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From: littlemafia

On Oct 21, 2009

Amazing! I boiled the water and lemon in a pot on the stove ,than i left it in the microwave for 5 minutes. Worked like a charm!

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    From: hojo

    On Oct 19, 2009

    Worked great! My hubby is allergic to a lot of household cleaners so I was very excited to try this! I had the microwave to 5 minutes and left it in there for 15 minutes as some other posters mentioned. It seriously wiped right off with a damp washcloth! Ok well, the caked on stuff needed some light scrubbing, but overall very impressed...I'll be using this from now on!

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    From: Karen=^..^=

    On Dec 7, 2005

    This worked wonderfully for me. The key here, I think, is that you need to bring the water to a boil and then let it boil for the 20 seconds stated. 20 seconds total won't do much more than warm the water. I nuked it on high for about 4 minutes, then left it in there with the door closed for about 10 minutes. After that, everything wiped off with minimal scrubbing. Thanks for posting this...this will definitely be part of my kitchen cleaning rotation, as I'm the ONLY one in the house who bothers to wipe up splatters in the microwave.

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  • From: Soup Fly *

    On Jan 14, 2006

    This is the ONLY way I will ever clean my microwave again. I used 1 cup of water & about 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, microwaved for 5 minutes and let it sit for about 5 minutes. The crud wiped off with a damp cloth. Consider me impressed!

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