Pinterest Tips: Fact or Fiction?

When I am killing time getting inspired on Pinterest, I always run across tips and tricks for this or that.  I ALWAYS wonder if they actually work.

So over the last couple of weekends, I decided to try some out.

1.  The perpetual green onion

The tip is to put your cut bunch of green onions in a glass after they are cut.  They regrow so you always have green onions for your recipes.

FACT!

I cut this bunch of onions last week and they are already starting to re-grow.

2.  Hot vinegar will soften paint brushes.

The tip is to submerge any hardened brush into a jar/glass of hot vinegar and let it soak over night. By morning, it will be soft again.

FACT!

I found this brush in our basement. It had been left by the previous owner and was hard as a rock. Now, you can see that it is soft and bendable.  It is like I found a free brush!



The key is to get the vinegar nice and hot.  I tried dunking a brush in room temp vinegar and it didn't work as well at all.

3.  Cleaning cooktop grates with ammonia

The tip is to seal your grate in a gallon ziplock bag with 1/4 cup ammonia, put the bags in a well ventilated are (in case there is a spill) and 12 hours later...bam! Clean grates.

FACT!

Even D noticed how clean the grates were.  Disclosure:  Because our grates were so gross*, we needed to do two treatments of ammonia.

Before:

 After:

*We had been living with these grates with horribly baked on stuff since we moved in because it was over $50 each to replace them with new.  We just couldn't justify spending the $250+ for new.  So I had used Simple Green, oven cleaner, Bar Keepers Friend, Brillo pads and more to try to get them clean and nothing worked...until now! (I sound like a infommercial sales person)

4. Denture cleaning tablets will clean the gunk from the inside of a glass vase/pitcher

I have this tall bottle green pitcher that has been boxed up because I haven't been able to get the inside clean. The neck is very narrow and I don't have scrubber brush that will fit.

After seeing the tip that denture tablets can make old dirty, dusty, grimy glass look like new, I thought I would give this a shot to clean out my pitcher.

Like the grates, it took 2 treatments of 5 tablets a treatment to get things sparkly and shiny, but since the tablets were the cheap store brands, that may have been a contributing factor.

FACT!


Before: 

After: 

I still can't believe how clean just the tablets for the vase.  Now it is on a shelf in the living room and not stored in a box.

So in this round of Pinterest Tips: Fact or Fiction - everything turned out to be fact. Stay tuned for more  posts in the future fact checking Pinterest/internet tips to see if they actually work.

Have you done any Pinterest Fact or Fiction experiments yourself?  I would love to hear about them!