PLEASE NOTE... NOT TO USE VINEGAR ON YOUR GRANITE COUNTERS!!! Vinegar is too acidic & will etch the granite counter tops & dull & weaken the sealant. Just use soap and water & hydrogen peroxide to disinfect. I love this recipe... been using it for several years & absolutely love it... use it on my kitchen sinks, bathrooms & even mopping in my bathroom as I have glass tiles! 👌 A great recipe💖💖
@@AcreHomestead You were wondering what else can you do with your lemon peels and I have a few suggestions: 1) If you're buying lemon with edible, non treated (not vaxed) zest you can freeze the lemon peel and grate it frozen when you need it. 2) Becides putting fresh grated or peeled zest it in sweets (doughs and creams) which we all know, you can also use it in your salty recepies since lemon zest is a natural msg and personally I started out by adding half a lemon zest instead of lemon juice in some of my recepies and see how that tastes since you can always adjust it somehow and never completely ruin... I even started thinking that in some dishes you need zest instead of juice or just very little juice becouse the zest can really give that umami twist aspecially to some veggies! 3) If you have those "greasy" and full of esential oil lemon peels that when you pick them up and then pose them, the lemon smell just sticks with your fingers, well those kind of lemons the italians use for for the making of limoncello which is a sweet liquor (like cherry but with lemons) belonging to the category of italian digestives that they sometimes have at the end of a rich meal but only after an espresso espresso first... it's a little very sweet lemon shot 🤣 of 40% alcohol that is always kept in a freezer, but it's awesome and it does help you digest! 4) You can also use half a lemon peel as a dishwasher deodorant: you just put it in the cutlery basket and you can leave it there for a couple of washes or that is when the smell is washed out! 5) When I was looking for vanilla extract recepie, I ran into lemon extract recepies aswell.
My wife (and I) really loves your channel and she sent this to me to check out. Were going to be doing this soon! If she happens to read this, I love you Lacey ❤
I have to admit to getting a hearty laugh at accidentally drinking it! It is a very good habit to get into to remove the label and write what you are refilling a repurposed bottles, jars etc.
In the Middle ages, servants would clean their work tables every day with a mix of vinegar, salt, and rosemary. And they would use cut lemons dipped in salt to scrub pots and pans. So this is getting back to basics in a big way.
@@vegan_guacof course it won't sterilize but it does clean.. But even with this all natural stuff every so often you have to go in w/chemicals to sterilize.
I make a lemon vinegar cleaner and a lemon alcohol cleaner. Be super duper careful using vinegar on natural stone - it removes protective coating/dulls surface. 🍋
I love using citrus peel to make flavorings extracts. Just zest the citrus and add to vodka in a container. Allow to stir 6 weeks to get the full flavor.
I told my husband that your channel is so genuine and i love that you never use clickbait titles. I don't watch those channels. Hope you stay that way ❤️
RoseRed Homestead made lemon powder & tried both freeze drying & dehydrating methods. This week she made a peach jam using Red Hots candy. She used her lemon powder instead of a commercial pectin. She’s a university professor of science. Just another great way to use lemon peels!
I LOVE her channel! There are so many things I've seen on RUclips and tried, only to find it doesn't work and I wasted all those beautiful ingredients. Most recently I tried preserving half my precious basil harvest in salt because the video was so convincing. Just tossed it all in the trash yesterday. It was nasty! It's made me much more skeptical than I used to be.
Great stuff. Incidentally; if you throw those peals into the same container with rain water and a handful of organic raisins it will make it's own vinegar in a few weeks. Then it really will be zero dollar cleaner. I made juniper vinegar for cleaning and OMG, it smells great and cost me absolutely nothing! Apple peals, melon rinds, virtually anything with sugar can be fermented to make vinegar. Always enjoy your videos; thank you!
I've been making that solution for over a year now and I love it. Rain Country Has many videos on how to actually make the vinegar which saves even more money.
Hi Becky! I too make this with squeezed lemons, BUT: before I squeeze them, I grate the peel of und put this in a jar with sugar in den fridge. Then I squeeze the zested lemons and what is then left I put in vinegar. so: 3 products out of 1 lemon. The peel from - in my case all organic - lemons is way too good for making cleaner with it. The lemon cest (or orange cest) sugar I use for baking, for cocktails, for cooking and so on. Sugar too is a preservative and kept in the fridge it stores some months.
Great way to make a non-toxic cleaner! I do want to let you know that vinegar will eventually etch your natural stone counters. It will first ear away the seal, and then etch the counter. I hope that is of help to you. Love your channel!
@Elizabeth bertsch would fermented grape or onion or lemon or grapefruit or sauerkraut brine also hurt my counters? It seems so effective! I know that lactofermented foods are acidic and this is what I'm using. I'd love your response. And a source for your info if you've got one!
You’ve been quite an inspiration to me! I make my lemon vinegar a little different than you do. I got the information from a RUclips channel called Rain country. I just take the lemons after I’ve juiced them, put them in a jar, add some sugar and fill it with water and cover it loosely like you would something you’re fermenting so it can breathe. Every day you stir it and in about one month it will be vinegar. Just drain and use. Then you don’t even have to buy the white vinegar. I also have learned from her that you can make vinegar out of anything! I really enjoy doing it. Floral vinegars for hair rinse, citrus vinegar’s for cleaning, even made some vinegar out of cedar branches off of a tree. Lotta fun and very frugal! Thank you so much for all you share! You have so inspired me to do large amounts of cooking so I can continue doing something besides just cooking!
I started doing this - big jar on the kitchen counter for all the citrus skins etc. As I was decanting into my cleaning jars a bit splashed on my hand. Unthinkingly I licked it and damn, it tasted so good. Now we use some for our salad dressings and the rest for cleaning non-porous surfaces.
This is a great idea! I can hear the doggo's feet pitter pattering on the floor, so cute! The doggo's agent called and said that they need more screen time footage :)
TIP: save all the peels that you took out in the strainer... dont compost... FREEZE IT!! Then save in a bag an put it in your sink in food dispenser.. cleans an smells really good 😊 an the ice (from frozen) sharpens your blades... an in your vinagre bottles add 1 or 2 cinnamon stick love it!!
A Dwarf Meyer Lemon bush in a container (that can be brought into shelter if frost is predicted) is a superb lemon plant in areas that freeze. They are sweeter and tastier than the typical Eureka lemons sold commercially.
The leaves of a lemon tree can get used in this mixture as well the leaves are not good for consumption but can be used as an aromatic in cooking foods and in something like this...as long as you don't drink it 😉
Thanks for doing such a great job with this channel! My wife and I really enjoy everything you do with your homestead. Great job with the cleaner idea! We appreciate you and your hard work in making these videos and all the time it takes you to edit them! Take care and may God overwhelm you with blessings!
I keep finding video treasures! Found your channel a month ago and have watched sooo many, especially the freezer meal preps (I’m prepping for my little one to arrive any day now). Garden harvests grocery hauls… so many other gems on here where you make your own seasonings, sugar mixes (brown and powdered), now cleaning! So wonderful keep it up!
I love your videos. My husband, 4 children and I have been battling Covid, and your videos have been keeping us entertained and grounded while dealing with this scary sickness.
You can make lemon extract very similar to how you make your own vanilla extract. Just take a veggie peeler to peel off the very top layer of the peel before you juice the lemons. Drop the peel into a jar of vodka and let it sit for several months. You can use it anywhere you would use lemon zest - marinades, salad dressings, baked goods, home cleaners, etc. You can also add sugar to make your own limoncello for cocktails! The very outer layer of the peel is where all the lemon oil is.
I collect my lemons and while fresh, i take out the inside and flip them like a sock. Than i air dry them and when dry, i put them in a container where i keep powder sugar. When i need powder sugar it smells lemony and fresh!
I use vinegar in my washing machine instead of fabric softener. I just whack a glug of it in the fabric softener drawer. Probably about 1/4 cup I guess, but I don’t measure it. Yes I can smell a bit of vinegar when I first pull it out, but once it’s dry I can’t smell a thing. Some people put drops of essential oils in with it but I don’t bother. I like my clothes to smell fresh and clean, not scented.
I make my own too, but I think vinegar is too caustic. I use rubbing alcohol (1 to 1 with water) with a few drops of essential oils for my stone counters and floors, but not for wood. I have been using it for 25 years and there is no etching or dulling of the stone. Alcohol is PH neutral, which is important. I do not use this on wood or metal, though as the alcohol can damage the finish on these. Hope this helps!
If you put both lemon halves back into the press together you’ll get so much more juice from them. We use lemons everyday. I need to do this. Thanks for sharing! 💞
Yes, I always toss a frozen lemon peel in when running the garbo. Works great, smells wonderful. I also have a jar of multi citrus peels in vinegar going at all times.
Hi Becky Your new home is just going to be beautiful. My suggestion is to put your canning kitchen in your walk out basement. It will be closer to the new garden and it will be cooler in the basement. You know how hot it can get when your canning. Josh's shop can go in the garage a much bigger space and he can always drive the tractor into his shop when it needs any repairs, convenient. Just my thoughts lol. Congrats to you both on your new home.
I have been making this for years and love that it is something so simple and useful! I have added cloves in the Fall for a little extra Fall scent. Love all your little tips and tricks. I bet it would make an interesting cocktail!! 😂 I save mayo plastic tops for these jars to avoid touching the metal rims. Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
Love this! I use fresh homegrown rosemary or thyme with vinegar and water, and have recently started saving citrus rind like this. Thanks for sharing 💫
A friend gave me some lemon’s more than I could use, so I zested the lemons then juiced them and cut them up in put in a old ice tray with vinegar froze. A have a cleaner for my garbage disposal. I also froze the lemon zest. I love you video’s. Nice to see , keep up the good work.💐
I started doing this a few months ago, and love it...like you said we are getting a second use of the lemons...and the cleaner really works..i have a stainless steel sink and it is sparkling clean now...i really like this cleaner...and i also compost the rines when I'm done.. thank you Becky!!
When I make candied lemon peel, the first step is to boil the peels to reduce bitterness, at least once but sometimes more times, before boiling in sugar syrup. I keep the first boiled lemon water and mix 1:1 ratio with white vinegar to make the same cleaner. I do the same thing when making any candied citrus peels, especially pink grapefruit!
Don’t forget that your compost is also a by product!! And everything that you add to your compost system helps keep your soil alive. Dead dirt makes for dead plants.
Such a great idea! I’ll have to give it a try. I already have lemons in my fridge that need to be used and I have vinegar. I saw comments from some other viewers that said they added rosemary or basil to their mix. I have both in my garden, so I might give one of them a try too. Thank you for sharing!
I was literally looking through your channel yesterday, trying to find the video where you first mentioned this method before to see how long you let the rinds sit in the vinegar for and, lo and behold, you post the recipe video today! 😂 I feel like someone has been going through my search history.
Dry them in dehydrator and usa room scent. Great ideas to reuse citrus peels to make cleaning products. I'm glad to see your ideas and how to save own products and get two uses out of other items
This is brilliant, I would add that I zest the lemons before juicing and dehydrate the zest. I then powder it and use it in my seasoning, it's so yummy! Then that's 4 uses!, juice, zest, cleaner and compost..
Fantastasmic!!! I've been steeping mine for the last month, and today I am going to make the cleaner. I've seen some people put a little Dawn dish liquid in, and just enhance the scent they have added some essential oils. I'm going to enhance that citrus scent and add some orange and lemon essential oils...
Thank you Becky!! I always have lemon peels left over, what a great idea!! I will be doing this from now on!! Sending Love, from your neighbor in Oregon 🌲💕❤️🙏~Trina~
I am absolutely trying this! Been looking for a way to use vinegar but without the powerful scent of it. Excited to try this out! I must say this video also educated me on how to use my lemon/lime squeezer! I cannot believe I've been using it backwards all these years. Got to test your way this morning and hardly any effort required!! Thank you! 🙏😄
I used to use a store bought pink grape fruit cleaner. I started making my own cleaner at home using vinegar and a touch of dish soap. I might have to give this a try. Not the biggest fan of essential oil MLM's anyway
Loved this video (but then I love all of them Becky❤️)! Quick tip - press a sieve into the big pot of liquid then spoon that liquid into the bottle - it’s quicker than straining one cup at a time. I hope you’ve had a restful break and I’m sure we’re all waiting for your next show. Love from England at 23.52pm☘️😊😊
Thank you most kindly for sharing this idea! I use fresh lemon juice in my aqua fresca and wondered what to do with the lemon rinds. Started a "Cleaner jar" today 9/14/21. So I should have homemade cleaner by mid-winter. So excited!
This is awesome! I have a lemon tree so I go through a lot of lemons. I'm so excited about all of the plastic I won't have to dispose of! I'm really trying to get the plastic out of my life. The only thing I would add is to stick a label on the bottles. I don't even assume anymore that I am going to remember what I put in what bottle. The label maker got too expensive so now I just use masking tape and a pen. It works great and I always know what everything is.
I just want to share a little tip with you. I watched your chicken broth video and made some, too. In the video, you put a little sieve in your wide mouth funnel. The tip I have for you is that, instead of using that little sieve, you should use one of those reusable coffee filters that has like a mesh all around the sides and the bottom, too. It's important not to get the one that has a fully plastic bottom because it diminished the mesh's surface contact and kinda retains some liquid. However, with the one with the mesh bottom, the liquid passes more freely. The reason I suggest the reusable all-mesh coffee filter is because the mesh's holes are even tinier than the sieve you used and it also prevents the "desintegrated" onion/veggies from getting into your Mason jar, and which allows for a clearer/purer broth. I put the all-mesh coffee filter in my wide mouth funnel and rinsed it under the faucet every time I needed to. Now, seeing this citrus cleaner video, I think this trick might also help for the same reasons. Have a great day.
What a great idea! The lemon scented cleaning sprays are my girlfriends favorite, I can't wait to show her this trick so we can make our own endless cleaner. 😊
I use the lemonvinegar instead of softner for the washing machine. It's better for the machine, the environment and you laundry. I will try it now as a cleaner, it's a great idea!
So cool, I have two little kids are we are already talking about waste and ways we can help reduce it! I have a lemon tree and will try this next fruit season. Last year I juiced all the lemons, froze the juice, made a couple hugs batches of lemon marmalade and just threw away the rest. This is a fantastic idea, thank you!
This is great cleaner. Thanks for sharing. Just to let you know: .... The natural chemicals and acidity in citrus peels and onions can kill worms and other microorganisms, which can slow down the decomposition in your pile and leave you with "dead" compost- we want to attract worms to live in our garden soil. People actually make a tea from citrus or onions/garlic to spray for pests/bugs/worms ON certain plants.
I do 2 different lots as we have a cat and the citrus can be toxic for her. I do a pine vinegar for the floors and surfaces she does jump on and use the citrus for the cupboards and surfaces she doesn't. I forage the pine from down the road off in the woods close to where we live.
I do the same thing except I chop up the citrus peels, put them into spray bottles, let them sit for a little while then use them without straining. All the pulp just stays at the bottom of the bottle. Theirs still so much in those peels to strain out, but of course I will throw it out after the bottle is empty of liquid.
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PLEASE NOTE... NOT TO USE VINEGAR ON YOUR GRANITE COUNTERS!!! Vinegar is too acidic & will etch the granite counter tops & dull & weaken the sealant. Just use soap and water & hydrogen peroxide to disinfect.
I love this recipe... been using it for several years & absolutely love it... use it on my kitchen sinks, bathrooms & even mopping in my bathroom as I have glass tiles! 👌 A great recipe💖💖
Can I use this on my wood floors???
You could add fresh rosemary to the orange peels for a fresh scent. This is so environmentally friendly! I have been doing this for years!
Oh good idea!
Great idea!!
Great idea!
@@AcreHomestead You were wondering what else can you do with your lemon peels and I have a few suggestions:
1) If you're buying lemon with edible, non treated (not vaxed) zest you can freeze the lemon peel and grate it frozen when you need it.
2) Becides putting fresh grated or peeled zest it in sweets (doughs and creams) which we all know, you can also use it in your salty recepies since lemon zest is a natural msg and personally I started out by adding half a lemon zest instead of lemon juice in some of my recepies and see how that tastes since you can always adjust it somehow and never completely ruin... I even started thinking that in some dishes you need zest instead of juice or just very little juice becouse the zest can really give that umami twist aspecially to some veggies!
3) If you have those "greasy" and full of esential oil lemon peels that when you pick them up and then pose them, the lemon smell just sticks with your fingers, well those kind of lemons the italians use for for the making of limoncello which is a sweet liquor (like cherry but with lemons) belonging to the category of italian digestives that they sometimes have at the end of a rich meal but only after an espresso espresso first... it's a little very sweet lemon shot 🤣 of 40% alcohol that is always kept in a freezer, but it's awesome and it does help you digest!
4) You can also use half a lemon peel as a dishwasher deodorant: you just put it in the cutlery basket and you can leave it there for a couple of washes or that is when the smell is washed out!
5) When I was looking for vanilla extract recepie, I ran into lemon extract recepies aswell.
My wife (and I) really loves your channel and she sent this to me to check out. Were going to be doing this soon! If she happens to read this, I love you Lacey ❤
I love u too!
If you have an opportunity add grapefruit rind. It also has a pleasant smell from the cleaning.
I have to admit to getting a hearty laugh at accidentally drinking it! It is a very good habit to get into to remove the label and write what you are refilling a repurposed bottles, jars etc.
That's Gospel!
I feel like that is something I would do too! Relatable XD
Lol I would remove the sticker
In the Middle ages, servants would clean their work tables every day with a mix of vinegar, salt, and rosemary. And they would use cut lemons dipped in salt to scrub pots and pans. So this is getting back to basics in a big way.
They died very often from infections,so i wouldn't get sterilisation tips from the middle ages 🤦🏼♀️
@@vegan_guacof course it won't sterilize but it does clean.. But even with this all natural stuff every so often you have to go in w/chemicals to sterilize.
@@vegan_guaclolol... Got em!😂😂😂
@@vegan_guacThat was largely due to poor access to sanitation, clean water and they didn't even bathe very often. Ever heard of terrain theory?
@@brightwinter9334 so you said what I said just in a roundabout way 🤷🏼♀️
I make a lemon vinegar cleaner and a lemon alcohol cleaner. Be super duper careful using vinegar on natural stone - it removes protective coating/dulls surface. 🍋
Thank you!
Bet your parents are so proud of you, and your homesteading gifts. Great work!
I would love getting canned gifts especially salsa because I eat salsa regularly or daily 😂 anything homemade I love.
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I love using citrus peel to make flavorings extracts. Just zest the citrus and add to vodka in a container. Allow to stir 6 weeks to get the full flavor.
82K!!! Holy smokes it was 67K last week! So proud of you! I love doing this too! Keep them coming!
You could also zest your citrus & allow to air dry & add the dried zest to rubs & seasoning mixes. Love your channel ❤
Great idea!!
I told my husband that your channel is so genuine and i love that you never use clickbait titles. I don't watch those channels. Hope you stay that way ❤️
RoseRed Homestead made lemon powder & tried both freeze drying & dehydrating methods. This week she made a peach jam using Red Hots candy. She used her lemon powder instead of a commercial pectin. She’s a university professor of science. Just another great way to use lemon peels!
I need to try that
Love her channel!
I LOVE her channel!
There are so many things I've seen on RUclips and tried, only to find it doesn't work and I wasted all those beautiful ingredients. Most recently I tried preserving half my precious basil harvest in salt because the video was so convincing. Just tossed it all in the trash yesterday. It was nasty! It's made me much more skeptical than I used to be.
I love doing this- I add rosemary, basil, etc., from the garden! It’s such a great cleaner!
I always through away my citrus peels.. never again will I be doing that.. thank you so much for sharing, I love it. ❤❤
Oh good!
Great stuff. Incidentally; if you throw those peals into the same container with rain water and a handful of organic raisins it will make it's own vinegar in a few weeks. Then it really will be zero dollar cleaner. I made juniper vinegar for cleaning and OMG, it smells great and cost me absolutely nothing! Apple peals, melon rinds, virtually anything with sugar can be fermented to make vinegar. Always enjoy your videos; thank you!
I've been making that solution for over a year now and I love it. Rain Country Has many videos on how to actually make the vinegar which saves even more money.
Hi Becky! I too make this with squeezed lemons, BUT: before I squeeze them, I grate the peel of und put this in a jar with sugar in den fridge. Then I squeeze the zested lemons and what is then left I put in vinegar. so: 3 products out of 1 lemon. The peel from - in my case all organic - lemons is way too good for making cleaner with it.
The lemon cest (or orange cest) sugar I use for baking, for cocktails, for cooking and so on. Sugar too is a preservative and kept in the fridge it stores some months.
Great way to make a non-toxic cleaner! I do want to let you know that vinegar will eventually etch your natural stone counters. It will first ear away the seal, and then etch the counter. I hope that is of help to you. Love your channel!
Wow! Good to know. Thank you.
@Elizabeth bertsch would fermented grape or onion or lemon or grapefruit or sauerkraut brine also hurt my counters? It seems so effective! I know that lactofermented foods are acidic and this is what I'm using. I'd love your response. And a source for your info if you've got one!
You’ve been quite an inspiration to me! I make my lemon vinegar a little different than you do. I got the information from a RUclips channel called Rain country. I just take the lemons after I’ve juiced them, put them in a jar, add some sugar and fill it with water and cover it loosely like you would something you’re fermenting so it can breathe. Every day you stir it and in about one month it will be vinegar. Just drain and use. Then you don’t even have to buy the white vinegar. I also have learned from her that you can make vinegar out of anything! I really enjoy doing it. Floral vinegars for hair rinse, citrus vinegar’s for cleaning, even made some vinegar out of cedar branches off of a tree. Lotta fun and very frugal! Thank you so much for all you share! You have so inspired me to do large amounts of cooking so I can continue doing something besides just cooking!
I started doing this - big jar on the kitchen counter for all the citrus skins etc. As I was decanting into my cleaning jars a bit splashed on my hand. Unthinkingly I licked it and damn, it tasted so good. Now we use some for our salad dressings and the rest for cleaning non-porous surfaces.
I have a lemon 🍋 tree, so I definitely need to try this!! I’m going to make up a batch tomorrow!! 😊
This is a great idea! I can hear the doggo's feet pitter pattering on the floor, so cute! The doggo's agent called and said that they need more screen time footage :)
I swear this was exactly the message I was going to write 😂 the videos are perfect, we just had to ask ......
I love how you say do what you can. Not you have to do everything
TIP: save all the peels that you took out in the strainer... dont compost... FREEZE IT!! Then save in a bag an put it in your sink in food dispenser.. cleans an smells really good 😊 an the ice (from frozen) sharpens your blades... an in your vinagre bottles add 1 or 2 cinnamon stick love it!!
I heard a tip recently that said when you cut the lemon to squeeze it, cut the other tip end off too and you get so much more juice.
I love making cleaning vinegars for the home. I also make a spearmint one that is really refreshing to wash walls with. Thank you for your videos!
This is AWESOME! You need to plant a lemon tree or find someone that has extras for you. Then no cost at all for lemons!
A Dwarf Meyer Lemon bush in a container (that can be brought into shelter if frost is predicted) is a superb lemon plant in areas that freeze. They are sweeter and tastier than the typical Eureka lemons sold commercially.
The leaves of a lemon tree can get used in this mixture as well the leaves are not good for consumption but can be used as an aromatic in cooking foods and in something like this...as long as you don't drink it 😉
Thanks for doing such a great job with this channel! My wife and I really enjoy everything you do with your homestead. Great job with the cleaner idea! We appreciate you and your hard work in making these videos and all the time it takes you to edit them! Take care and may God overwhelm you with blessings!
I keep finding video treasures!
Found your channel a month ago and have watched sooo many, especially the freezer meal preps (I’m prepping for my little one to arrive any day now).
Garden harvests grocery hauls… so many other gems on here where you make your own seasonings, sugar mixes (brown and powdered), now cleaning!
So wonderful keep it up!
I just found your videos the other day and can’t get enough! I’ve learned SO many helpful tips … THANK YOU!
I love your videos. My husband, 4 children and I have been battling Covid, and your videos have been keeping us entertained and grounded while dealing with this scary sickness.
Oh wow I’m so so sorry! I’m glad hey are helping you. I’ll be praying for you
also can we get a Kombucha update?
@@AcreHomestead Thanks girl. Covid might have started me on your videos, but i've fallen in love with your channel. Keep up the good work!
I love the smell of lemons ☺️ I think it's great to have a safe cleaner for the family and environment. Great video 👍
You can make lemon extract very similar to how you make your own vanilla extract. Just take a veggie peeler to peel off the very top layer of the peel before you juice the lemons. Drop the peel into a jar of vodka and let it sit for several months. You can use it anywhere you would use lemon zest - marinades, salad dressings, baked goods, home cleaners, etc. You can also add sugar to make your own limoncello for cocktails! The very outer layer of the peel is where all the lemon oil is.
I also added lavender from my garden. It smells so lovely, there is almost no smell of vinegar.
I collect my lemons and while fresh, i take out the inside and flip them like a sock. Than i air dry them and when dry, i put them in a container where i keep powder sugar. When i need powder sugar it smells lemony and fresh!
Fascinating!
@@thornhedge9639 thank you!!!
I use vinegar in my washing machine instead of fabric softener. I just whack a glug of it in the fabric softener drawer. Probably about 1/4 cup I guess, but I don’t measure it. Yes I can smell a bit of vinegar when I first pull it out, but once it’s dry I can’t smell a thing. Some people put drops of essential oils in with it but I don’t bother. I like my clothes to smell fresh and clean, not scented.
As do I! We have a well water and using vinegar helps keep the hard water too! Have a wonderful day!
I make my own too, but I think vinegar is too caustic. I use rubbing alcohol (1 to 1 with water) with a few drops of essential oils for my stone counters and floors, but not for wood. I have been using it for 25 years and there is no etching or dulling of the stone. Alcohol is PH neutral, which is important. I do not use this on wood or metal, though as the alcohol can damage the finish on these. Hope this helps!
Becky I never thought about that using fruit to make freshener thank you for the video there was a great idea
You're welcome Becky I really do love watching your videos until next time
I love you so much you make me so very happy love you dear❤💕🖤
such a humble person, excellent quality information. I will certainly be doing this in the future
If you put both lemon halves back into the press together you’ll get so much more juice from them.
We use lemons everyday. I need to do this. Thanks for sharing! 💞
You are so inspiring! You make me want to make sustainable changes in my life too.
You have the coziest big sister energy🥰 love your videos
I freeze my lemon peels to clean the garbage disposal but I have so many that I may do this with the excess. Great idea. 💜
Yes, I always toss a frozen lemon peel in when running the garbo. Works great, smells wonderful.
I also have a jar of multi citrus peels in vinegar going at all times.
Hi Becky
Your new home is just going to be beautiful. My suggestion is to put your canning kitchen in your walk out basement. It will be closer to the new garden and it will be cooler in the basement. You know how hot it can get when your canning. Josh's shop can go in the garage a much bigger space and he can always drive the tractor into his shop when it needs any repairs, convenient. Just my thoughts lol. Congrats to you both on your new home.
I'm doing this NOW! thank you for sharing your idea and showing EXACTLY how make this!
I have been making this for years and love that it is something so simple and useful! I have added cloves in the Fall for a little extra Fall scent. Love all your little tips and tricks. I bet it would make an interesting cocktail!! 😂 I save mayo plastic tops for these jars to avoid touching the metal rims. Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
Great idea! Thanks for watching!!
Love this! I use fresh homegrown rosemary or thyme with vinegar and water, and have recently started saving citrus rind like this. Thanks for sharing 💫
A friend gave me some lemon’s more than I could use, so I zested the lemons then juiced them and cut them up in put in a old ice tray with vinegar froze. A have a cleaner for my garbage disposal. I also froze the lemon zest. I love you video’s. Nice to see , keep up the good work.💐
Writing from Austria: I started to make this at the beginning of 2021 and I´m satisfied with this cleaner.
I am soo glad I have come across your channel! I love your content. It is so helpful and motivating.
I started doing this a few months ago, and love it...like you said we are getting a second use of the lemons...and the cleaner really works..i have a stainless steel sink and it is sparkling clean now...i really like this cleaner...and i also compost the rines when I'm done.. thank you Becky!!
When I make candied lemon peel, the first step is to boil the peels to reduce bitterness, at least once but sometimes more times, before boiling in sugar syrup. I keep the first boiled lemon water and mix 1:1 ratio with white vinegar to make the same cleaner. I do the same thing when making any candied citrus peels, especially pink grapefruit!
Thanks for sharing! I want to make that now!
What a great idea!
If I have too much for one batch of cleaner, I keep it in the refrigerator because otherwise it spoils without the vinegar added to it.
You can get more juice out if you put in two already squeezed out lemon half’s in the juicer. Just gives some additional leverage.
Hi Becky! Thank you for showing the final product! Have got my jar of peel/vinegar started today.
Don’t forget that your compost is also a by product!! And everything that you add to your compost system helps keep your soil alive. Dead dirt makes for dead plants.
What a great idea Beckie!!! Thanks and have a beautiful day!!!!
Yass this is good ! Like we use pin soil Mr.clean etc to clean sometimes bleach but it's so expensive and so strong
Such a great idea! I’ll have to give it a try. I already have lemons in my fridge that need to be used and I have vinegar. I saw comments from some other viewers that said they added rosemary or basil to their mix. I have both in my garden, so I might give one of them a try too. Thank you for sharing!
I was literally looking through your channel yesterday, trying to find the video where you first mentioned this method before to see how long you let the rinds sit in the vinegar for and, lo and behold, you post the recipe video today! 😂 I feel like someone has been going through my search history.
Just made some from orange peels, love this!
Dry them in dehydrator and usa room scent. Great ideas to reuse citrus peels to make cleaning products. I'm glad to see your ideas and how to save own products and get two uses out of other items
I do the same thing! I use lemons and limes in my water and use the spent ones to make infused vinegar to clean with!
I do that too. Love it. Cleaning with it gets that fish smell out of the house.
This is brilliant, I would add that I zest the lemons before juicing and dehydrate the zest. I then powder it and use it in my seasoning, it's so yummy! Then that's 4 uses!, juice, zest, cleaner and compost..
You amaze me every time with your skills in the kitchen, and garden. Loved the video 🤗
Fantastasmic!!! I've been steeping mine for the last month, and today I am going to make the cleaner. I've seen some people put a little Dawn dish liquid in, and just enhance the scent they have added some essential oils. I'm going to enhance that citrus scent and add some orange and lemon essential oils...
Thank you Becky!! I always have lemon peels left over, what a great idea!! I will be doing this from now on!!
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I am absolutely trying this! Been looking for a way to use vinegar but without the powerful scent of it. Excited to try this out!
I must say this video also educated me on how to use my lemon/lime squeezer! I cannot believe I've been using it backwards all these years. Got to test your way this morning and hardly any effort required!! Thank you! 🙏😄
I used to use a store bought pink grape fruit cleaner. I started making my own cleaner at home using vinegar and a touch of dish soap. I might have to give this a try. Not the biggest fan of essential oil MLM's anyway
Loved this video (but then I love all of them Becky❤️)! Quick tip - press a sieve into the big pot of liquid then spoon that liquid into the bottle - it’s quicker than straining one cup at a time. I hope you’ve had a restful break and I’m sure we’re all waiting for your next show. Love from England at 23.52pm☘️😊😊
Thank you most kindly for sharing this idea! I use fresh lemon juice in my aqua fresca and wondered what to do with the lemon rinds.
Started a "Cleaner jar" today 9/14/21. So I should have homemade cleaner by mid-winter. So excited!
Hi from Oregon xoxoxo I love your channel! You have inspired me to do so much in my journey of homesteading. Thank you so much!
Awesome video I’m a do that now thanks so much and I love that can be like that for months in the jar
You could also use the peels to infuse in vodka, I'm sure you knew that though. 🙂
This is awesome! I have a lemon tree so I go through a lot of lemons. I'm so excited about all of the plastic I won't have to dispose of! I'm really trying to get the plastic out of my life. The only thing I would add is to stick a label on the bottles. I don't even assume anymore that I am going to remember what I put in what bottle. The label maker got too expensive so now I just use masking tape and a pen. It works great and I always know what everything is.
I just want to share a little tip with you. I watched your chicken broth video and made some, too. In the video, you put a little sieve in your wide mouth funnel. The tip I have for you is that, instead of using that little sieve, you should use one of those reusable coffee filters that has like a mesh all around the sides and the bottom, too. It's important not to get the one that has a fully plastic bottom because it diminished the mesh's surface contact and kinda retains some liquid. However, with the one with the mesh bottom, the liquid passes more freely.
The reason I suggest the reusable all-mesh coffee filter is because the mesh's holes are even tinier than the sieve you used and it also prevents the "desintegrated" onion/veggies from getting into your Mason jar, and which allows for a clearer/purer broth.
I put the all-mesh coffee filter in my wide mouth funnel and rinsed it under the faucet every time I needed to.
Now, seeing this citrus cleaner video, I think this trick might also help for the same reasons.
Have a great day.
You can make your own lemon vinegar with lemons, water and sugar. It takes about four weeks to become vinegar.
I really enjoy your video's. They are very informative and I really appreciate how simple you make things.
Awesome video! I hate having to buy expensive essential oils to make anything, so this is awesome! Can’t wait to make it
Dehydrated or freeze dried citrus peels could be used for spice blends.
Great idea! Thanks for showing us how to do it!
I’m going to start saving my peels! Thanks
Oh I will be making that!! Thanks for sharing with us ❤️❤️
Big thank you! Will start right away!
What a great idea! The lemon scented cleaning sprays are my girlfriends favorite, I can't wait to show her this trick so we can make our own endless cleaner. 😊
I make homemade HCQ with my lemon & grapefruit peels. It is a miracle mosquito repellant, and really helps with my seasonal allergies.
I use the lemonvinegar instead of softner for the washing machine. It's better for the machine, the environment and you laundry. I will try it now as a cleaner, it's a great idea!
Great tip and great video. Look forward to the videos . Love ya.
So cool, I have two little kids are we are already talking about waste and ways we can help reduce it! I have a lemon tree and will try this next fruit season. Last year I juiced all the lemons, froze the juice, made a couple hugs batches of lemon marmalade and just threw away the rest. This is a fantastic idea, thank you!
Wow that’s so cool
This is great cleaner. Thanks for sharing. Just to let you know: .... The natural chemicals and acidity in citrus peels and onions can kill worms and other microorganisms, which can slow down the decomposition in your pile and leave you with "dead" compost- we want to attract worms to live in our garden soil. People actually make a tea from citrus or onions/garlic to spray for pests/bugs/worms ON certain plants.
Wow I cant wait to try this. Thank you for making this video!
Yay I was just binge watching all your videos ♡
Thank you :)
I do 2 different lots as we have a cat and the citrus can be toxic for her. I do a pine vinegar for the floors and surfaces she does jump on and use the citrus for the cupboards and surfaces she doesn't. I forage the pine from down the road off in the woods close to where we live.
I knew the essential oils could be for cats, but google refused to give me an answer to the lemons soaked in peel! Thank you for this!!
What part of the pine tree do you use?
@@plantsbythemoon9049 the needles hun xox
I do the same thing except I chop up the citrus peels, put them into spray bottles, let them sit for a little while then use them without straining. All the pulp just stays at the bottom of the bottle. Theirs still so much in those peels to strain out, but of course I will throw it out after the bottle is empty of liquid.
The citrus peels can be frozen, too. I love that this cleaner is so easy, so frugal and works so well.
Oh good idea
You are a brilliant woman! Thank you for your videos. God Bless!
Becky, that’s a great idea. I also use lots of fresh lemons. I’ll definitely be doing this from now on.
Or use the lemons for limoncello. Now is a great time to start it for Christmas gifts too.
This is a great idea! I will definitely be doing this thank you for the tips and content!