When cleaning an empty oil drum, you don't need a drop of dish soap, and the oil drum is as clean as new after washing, which is really practical.
In daily life, a family usually uses a barrel of cooking oil every month, and after the cooking oil runs out, the oil barrel is often discarded. In fact, after cleaning, empty oil drums can perform many practical functions at home. For example, it can be used to raise flowers and grass or grow garlic, and it can also be used to store eggs or whole grains. However, some grease may still remain inside the empty drum, so it must be thoroughly cleaned before use.
Although many people will use dish soap to clean the grease in the oil drum, dish soap is easy to produce a lot of foam, it is more laborious to rinse, and if the dish soap is not rinsed and used to fill food, it may have adverse effects on health. Therefore, today I will teach you a small trick to quickly clean oil drums without dish soap.
The first method, first rinse the empty oil drum with water several times. Then prepare a handful of rice and pour the rice into the empty oil drum. Rice has a strong ability to absorb oil. Next, pour an appropriate amount of flour or baking soda into the oil drum. Both substances have a strong ability to absorb oil stains. Finally, stuff a short piece of toilet paper and pour an appropriate amount of warm water at about 50 degrees. After that, simply close the lid tightly and shake the barrel.
After shaking for about two or three minutes, we open the lid and pour out the toilet paper and water inside the bucket. If the oil drum has been left for a long time and the grease cannot be completely cleaned, we can repeat the above steps and clean the oil drum again to ensure that the stubborn grease is completely removed. Just shake it, without a drop of dish soap, and the empty oil drum will be cleaned and refreshed.
The second method is to clean up using paper towels and rice water. First, prepare two paper towels and a certain amount of rice water, knead the paper towels into a ball and put them in an empty oil drum. Then, pour in an appropriate amount of rice water, then close the lid of the oil drum and shake the oil drum up and down vigorously with both hands. After shaking for a few minutes, pause, you will find that the oil in the oil drum has been mixed with the rice water, and the paper towel gradually dissolves in the water during the shaking process, forming a substance that can absorb oil stains well. Finally, pour out all the rice water in the oil drum and rinse it with clean water. This method is simple and easy to make empty drums clean and tidy.
In the last step, pour out the contents of the oil drum, fill in some water and shake, and rinse again. Because the paper towel is adsorption, it also absorbs residual oil from the inner wall of the drum. The oil drums cleaned in this way are clean and do not leave oil stains, which solves the problems faced by many families when cleaning oil drums.
The third method is to use egg shells for cleanup. An appropriate amount of egg shells need to be prepared, mashed all of them and placed in an empty oil drum. Then, pour in an appropriate amount of warm water, and the water temperature is preferably kept at about 50 ° C. Finally, close the lid of the drum and vigorously shake the drum up and down with both hands. After a few minutes, pause, pour out the egg shell and water, and rinse again with clean water. This method is simple and labor-saving, and the oil drum after cleaning is clean and transparent. This method works better than using dish soap, and you can try to clean with this method.
The principle of these methods is very simple, they use the principles of physics to achieve the cleaning of the surface of the object by shaking the water and objects in the container. Specifically, shake cleaning takes advantage of the fluid properties of water. When the water in the container is shaken, the water molecules form eddies and produce strong impact and friction. These forces can quickly wash away dirt and oil. At the same time, during the shaking process, the contents of the oil drum will also hit the inner wall, thus cleaning the inner wall of the oil drum.