Use This Easy Trick to Get Rid of Sticker Residue on New Dishes
Some stickers come off like a charm, while others seem ready to hang around for years. Here's the everyday household product that will eliminate them with ease!
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Every new dish we buy or receive as a gift inevitably comes with a little sticker on the bottom. Some of them play nicely and come right off in a simple swipe...but let's face it: most of us don't get that lucky.
For those stubborn little tags, it can seem like an impossible task to get rid of them completely. Most of the sticker will come off, of course, but you're always left with little bits or (maybe even worse) that annoying transparent residue that sticks to anything and everything it comes into contact with.
When soap and water just won't do the trick, there's one product you already have in your house that will: cooking oil.
Whether it's olive, vegetable, or otherwise, it will work wonders on that annoying sticky residue. Just pour some oil on the dish; rub it with a paper towel, dishcloth, or sponge; then rinse in warm water and soap.
Some stickers will take a bit longer than others to work off, but we have yet to meet one that could resist the magic of oil.
Now your brand new dish is ready to be filled with something delicious and set on the table!
Follow these tips to have a spotless kitchen.
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Ingredients
- 2 large water or soda bottles (empty)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 sticks butter
- 6 eggs
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Ready 2 large plastic bottles, cleaned and dried.
- Add 1 cup of flour to each bottle.
- Add 1/2 cup of sugar to each.
- Melt butter, then add equal halves to each bottle.
- Add 6 eggs, 3 in each.
- Add 1/2 tbsp of baking powder to each.
- Add 1/2 cup of heavy cream to each.
- Shake the bottles thoroughly until the contents are well mixed.
- In one of the bottles only, add the cocoa powder.
- Beginning with the cocoa powder mixture, add a dolop of batter to the center of a circular
- baking tin. Do the same with the other mixture, placing the dolop directly in the center of the previous one.
- Continue with alternating additions of each mixture until all batter is used and the tin is full.
- Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
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