BAKING SMALL CAKES AND COOKIES
CAKE DECORATION
- Pouring Icing
BIOLOGICAL STAINS
SPILLED DRINKS
- fruit juice cause problem stains because of the residue they leave especially dark colour fruit such as red berry and blackcurrants.If they are allowed to dry it become very difficult to remove and unless treated carefully will leave a permanent mark.
- Clothes rinse under cold running water until as much of the mark as possible is removed. Treat any colour with methylated spirt or a stain remover.
- Carpet Blot with paper towel. Rub the area with the laundary prewash stick and leave for a few minutes.Rinse off and blot off and shampoo.Treat any remaining colour with methylated spirit.
Coloured food stains
FOOD TYPE | ON WASHABLE FABRICS | ON OTHER SURFACE | |
| Tomato sauce Treat tomato sauce and other bottled sauce in the same way | Hold fresh stains under cold. Running water and rub between your fingers.Apply a prewash treatmentm then launder according to fabric | On carpet remove deposit and sponge with warm water.Blot dry, apply carpet shampoo and wipe off.When dry use a spray stain remover. |
| Mustard Mustard powder can be brushed off. Ready mixed mustard produces a stain that is difficult to remove. | Rub fresh stains between your fingers in a mild detergent solution then sponge with a ammonia solution.soften dry stain with the glycerine and leave for atleast an hour. | Sponge carprt and furniture with a mild detergent then in ammonia solution.Avoid overwetting and finish by sponging with clean water. |
| Jam and preserve These leave sticky residues that should be scooped up and wiped with a damp cloth | Launderind should remove stains. Soak dried marks for half an hour in a laundary borax solution. | Sponge furniture with a warm washing up liquad solution.Sprinkle laundary borex on the mark and sponge offafter 15 minutes.on carpet use carpet shampoothen methylated spirit on remaining marks |
| Curry and turmeric These are two of the worst stains. Do not get them on wall coverings where the only solution is patch. | Rinse stain in tepid water, rub in a glycerine solution, leave for half an hour then rinse.Launder in biological solution if possible.use a hydrogen peroxide on persistent stains. | Sponge carpet and furniture with a laundar borex solution. If this is not work on furniture have the covers dry cleaned.a laundary prewash stick is also be effective on carpets |
| Choclate Dropped pieces of choclate become a problem if it once they get warm | Allow to set them then scrape the dry deposit with knife Soak then launder in biological detergent if suitable | Allow to set then scrape with the blunt knife.apply alather of carpet shampoo rubbing in gently.Wipe off with a damp cloth and use a liquad stains remover when dry. |
EGG STAINS
Egg is a sticky stain the merest drop of hot water cause it to set and form a crusty deposit that is much harder to remove than a fresh stain.If you cannot treat an egg stain immediatelly,cover it with damp cloth to keep it moist and prevent it from setting.
ON FURNITURE
Use a damp white cloth to remove the spilled egg, If only egg white has been spilled or you manage to clear the yolk,sponge with cold, saltywater. For yolk alone damb with lather from a washing up solution.
ON CARPET
Scrape up the deposit then use al liquid stain remover to tackle what remains.If a mark is still visible when dry then apply a carpet shampoo solution.
ON CLOTHES
Washable fabrics
Sponge with cold salty water,Rinse off when it looks as if the stain has disappeared.Soak in biological detergent solutin if necessary
Non washable fabrics
Sponge with salt water then sponge off with clear water and blot dry.Use an aerosol stain remover on remaining marks.
FOOD STAINS
Grease stains are straightforward to remove from fabrics, but they may cause more of a problem on carpet and furniture.
- On washable clothes
- On non washable fabrics
- Mayonnaise on carpet
- On washable fabrics
- On a nonwashable fabrics
- Icecream on carpet
- On washable fabrics
- On non washable fabrics
- Gravy on carpet
Tackling Stains
Stain can be divided in two main types