Weird Things You Can Do with Apple Cider Vinegar

Plus a Free Handy Homemaker Bonus Tip from Lindy Lou

Clean Your Toilets with Apple Cider Vinegar.

If you happen to have hard water, and an older toilet with a permanent ring that seems to have been etched in lime, worry not. After scrubbing and even brillo padding toilet rings that just got worse, Lindy Lou dumped apple cider vinegar in the toilet, and left it overnight. It made the whole bathroom smell nice and apple-y. Of course, it's a good thing no one needed to use the toilet because they might take one look at it and think they had already tinkled. Due to the fact that apple cider vinegar is roughly the same color as tinkle. (Don't you hate people who can't bring themselves to say urine?)

But back to the problematic ring around the toilet. By morning it was gone. Just one swipe with the toilet bowl brush and apple cider vinegar had won the Sparkle Bowl. You can bet your rubber gloves that LL was jazzed, immediately thinking "What else can I do with this wonderful apple cider vinegar that only costs a couple of bucks a gallon? Drink it?" Well yes but that's three tips from now.

Make Your Dishes Sparkle with Apple Cider Vinegar.

If you are plagued with spotty glassware and dull stainless steel flatware, if you look at the contents of the dishwasher and can't figure out if you ran it or not because you can't see your face in the china plates, apple cider vinegar to the rescue. Just load up the dishwasher, put in the dishwasher detergent and slosh apple cider vinegar on top of it. You'll see it immediately start to fizz and know that same fizzing action is going to cut through soapy film, hard water spots and grease on your dishes. Your glassware will look like you're in a Cascade commercial! And speaking of fizzing.. .

Make a Mini-Volcano with Apple Cider Vinegar

Here's an apple cider vinegar project that will make you Mom of the Century: Have the kids put a small empty soda bottle in a baking pan and pack clay or mud around it until it resembles a mountainous volcano shape. Don't get any mud in the soda bottle. Fill the bottle ¾ full with warm tap water, add 6 drops of dishwasher detergent, 2 tablespoons of baking soda, and even food coloring if you want colorful lava. Then carefully pour apple cider vinegar into the bottle and step back when you hear the fizz! Your volcano is erupting! (Hope you're doing this outside.) To find out how to use this same idea to make an exploding birthday cake, click here.

How to Lose Weight with Apple Cider Vinegar

Raw apple cider vinegar is full of all kinds of healthy stuff like potassium, pectin, malic acid . . . but who cares, it makes you lose weight! . . . Read more here.