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I’m sharing my secret to How to Clean a Stand Mixer. Get it clean before you start your holiday baking!
How to Clean a Stand Mixer
Around the holidays, my kitchen goes from residential to commercial. I’m cranking out pies, cakes, cookies, candies, and more daily. But, of course, all of these delights end up in the hands of friends, neighbors, and co-workers or as part of a holiday spread.
I love making things for others, but the last thing I want to do is get someone sick because I didn’t clean something thoroughly enough. That’s why I like to give my pots, pans, and Kitchen Aid stand mixer a deep cleaning before the holidays hit. So today, I’m sharing my secret to cleaning your stand mixer.
Are you ready for my secret?
Okay, lock your doors, close the curtains, and be sure no one is reading over your shoulder. Here it goes:
Dawn. That’s it, folks, Dawn. It has all the grease and gunk-fighting power you need to tackle your stand mixer.
I used a bowl, warm water, Dawn, a kitchen sponge, and a few Q-tips to clean my stand mixer. Here’s what you do:
- Apply a squirt of Dawn to a sponge/dish cloth under warm running water. (I let the extra suds collect in my bowl.)
- Scrub the greasy surface, and watch Dawn put grease and gunk in its place.
- Dry the surface with a paper towel, and that’s it.
- Use the Q-tips to get into little crevices of the stand mixer.
And that’s it. In no time, you’ll have a sparkling, clean stand mixer. Here are some before and after shots:
I had some caked-on grease on the side of my stand mixer, nothing Dawn and a little elbow grease couldn’t solve!
I don’t know about you, but I always forget to wipe down the under part of my stand mixer. So, as you can see, it desperately needed a good cleaning.
Don’t forget about the bowl cradle. Grease and gunk love to collect down here.
That’s it, folks. That’s How to Clean a Stand Mixer!
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Cleaning up stucked up refrigerator with old food particles from a clients kitchen!
The oven for sure! And I put it off for so long its going to be an awful job!
the stove top…..and the liners beneath the burners that have succumbed to a layer of rust. why are those things so expensive? the other pet peeve? trying to get the area between the glass on the oven door clean. i tried the stick-the-hanger-with-the-cleaning-wipe into the holes beneath the oven and i still can’t get it clean. it’s like a no-man’s land in there.
Definitely, my oven I dread cleaning it; it gotta get clean.
I love all things William Sonoma! And, my worst cleaning job is probably the microwave, after the kids use it.
Put a mug of hot water in microwave-microwave for a couple of minutes. Microwave will wash down very easily after that!
That’s another great tip!
The thing I hate cleaning the most in the kitchen would be the fridge …so many levels and crevices…the task is daunting to me…and I procrastinate the task everytime 🙁 love this Williams Sonoma giveaway! Thx for hosting it
anytime my husband cooks! he has to use every pot and pan and dish we have!
i hate cleaning the cookie sheets
Hi! My worst kitchen cleaning job is the refrigerator. A Dawn dishwasher soapy bucket of water helps quite a bit though. I love Dawn! Thank-you for this generous giveaway!!
I really dislike trying to keep my range clean… but it gets done
I really don’t like cleaning my oven. I try to avoid it until I absolutely have to clean it.
I hate cleaning out the garbage can.
Ugh, yes, I hate cleaning my refrigerator and organizing the pantry Kyla @ http://houseofhipsters.com/
My worst kitchen cleaning job is the baked on food between the stove and cupboard!
cleaning up after cooking bacon is always a tough job!
Worst has got to be the oven. I’m getting smart and remembering the baking sheet below the cooking stuff. The competition are the trays below the burners – Yucko!
Cleaning the shower! I found the combo of Dawn and vinegar on Pinterest and it’s a cleaning miracle! LOL I love it… it melts the grime right off the tiles and tub.
Good to know, I will have to try that!
Thank you!
worst kitchen cleaning is the little fingerprints all over the pantry doors and the frig and the dishwasher
I LOVE DAWN and it has save me so many times. I thought I had turned the burner off while heating dried beans and NO I didn’t. Scorched beans in my pan but thanks to DAWN they saved the day and the pot.