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If you’ve got reusable dishes, utensils, cups, bowls, pots and pans and other kitchen items, you have to clean them. How you clean them, however, can be up for debate. Some people are adamant about ...

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Ovens can be a real pain to clean. The stubborn stains and grease not only require a lot of heavy scrubbing (that I never feel like doing), but you can end up breathing in a load of chemicals fumes ...

Dear Heloise: After reading the letter from Pat D. in Irvine, California, about not putting dishes in the dishwasher with dried food on them, I would like to share my thoughts: I don't hesitate to do ...