Uses For Baking Soda Apart from in Baking?

[Valeriea]

I'm not sure if this is the right section but what uses do you have for baking soda? I like to clean my cups with it, steeped in some water overnight.

[sandyRoe]

Clean blocked sinks? A couple of tea spoons, a drop of vinegar, and put the plug in.

[Maydup]

I'm not sure about baking soda but I use bicarbonate of soda quite a bit.

I use that for cleaning all sorts from the shower curtain and the fridge to my tired eyes.

[Frank97]

An egg cup full in the fridge is supposed to stop any nasty odours! Don't know if it works, but I've got one in mine and it doesn't smell.

[Valeriea]

Sorry, I mean Bicarbonate of soda. I used the american term.

[masma]

2 teaspoons in a flask, top up with boiling water, leave overnight. Flask will be sparkling.

[DTCwordfan]

adding to vinegar with red colour dye in and creating a volcano

[mumsie_wumsie]

Mix it to a paste and clean the oven.

[vivandorron]

If you are a smoker, as I am....Dip your toothbrush in it and clean your teeth. Have a look at the labels on tubes of toothpaste....Some of them contain bi-carb.

Other uses could be:-

http://www.downthelan...carbonate-of-soda.php

Ron.

[Mosaic]

Reducing smells in all sorts of contexts e dust onto armpits like talcum powder.

[Euphemia]

To relieve bee stings

[vivandorron]

One which doesn't seem to have been mentioned, but came with the instructions for my fridge/freezer, which is now over 25yrs old.

After defrosting..wipe all over the inside with a cloth that has been wrung-out in a solution made up of...one teaspoonful of bi-carb to a pint of boiling water.

It not only sterilises the plastic surfaces but also gives them back a shine.

Ron.

[vivandorron]

Sorry ...my error...Maidup, did make reference to using it to clean a fridge.

Ron.

[abstibus]

Baking traditional bread.

[Wak]

Half a tea spoon of bi-carb in a cup of warm water cures heartburn.

[lacmag3]

I agree with Wak, it's the best cure for heartburn (if you can stand the taste!)

[Frank97]

I believe it's also one of the ingrediants for crack cocain.

[Wak]

I've just been reading that you can also use it (mixed to a paste with castor oil) to remove warts and body moles!

[plautus]

This has awakened a long dormant memory. Back in the 50s it was common to find plastic toys in cereal packets. I once got a little plastic submarine out of a packet of cornflakes. To propel it you had to put some baking powder (bicarb) in a little hole at the bottom. My mother had none so she sent me down the street to my great aunt's so that I could float my boat in her sink.

[Connemmara]

You can use it for steeping hard peas overnight

[Frank97]

An old 35mm film container with vinegar and bicarb in can have an amusing/explosive effect when the lid is put and is passed to a friend.