Keeping a clean and presentable home can sometimes feel like a never-ending battle. It seems like as soon as you finish one task, another one pops up in its place.

One of the most frustrating areas to keep clean is often the bathroom mirror. No matter how much effort you put into it, or how many ‘cleaning hacks’ you use, streaks always seem to end up appearing soon after.

Fortunately, there may be a solution to this problem hiding right in your pantry.

According to cleaning duo Jimmy and Laura Astuces, raw potatoes can be used to clean mirrors.

In the ‘life hack’ they shared on social media, Laura demonstrated how she used half a potato to clean her bathroom mirror.

She spritzed water on the mirror’s surface, took the raw potato and rubbed the cut side on the glass. She finished by ‘buffing’ the potato residue with a cloth.

Potatoes are (allegedly) perfect for cleaning glass. Credit: Pixabay/Pexels

To demonstrate the effectiveness of her ‘hack’, Laura threw a glass of water at the mirror and it slid cleanly off the surface.

Potatoes contain oxalic acid, which is great at removing rust from common household items such as knives and tarnishes from silverware. Potatoes are also used by car owners to prevent fogging on their car windows.

Potatoes allegedly remove small stains from fabric as well.

Albeit unorthodox, the video amassed over 4.3 million views, but many weren’t as keen on trying it.

‘Why would you do this when soap has the same effect?’ wrote one.

‘Food wasted. Wouldn’t it be better to eat the potato instead?’ Someone asked before adding that potato peels work just as well.

A third added: ‘Not [trying it] with these inflated food prices.’

Laura demonstrated the ‘hack’ on Instagram. Credit: jimmy_decom/Instagram

Across the globe, inflation rates have spiked drastically, with food and energy prices hitting high records.

In Australia, there’s a national potato shortage that was caused by wild weather earlier in the year, and it’s starting to affect other food items as well. You can read more about that here.

You can watch Laura’s demonstration here.

Key Takeaways

• According to Laura Astuces, you can use a potato to clean your bathroom mirror and prevent it from fogging up.
• She demonstrated this by spritzing water onto a mirror before cutting a raw potato in half and rubbing the cut side onto the glass. Then, she ‘buffed’ the mirror with a dry cloth.
• She said in the comments that potatoes can be used to remove rust from knives and tarnish from silverware.
• However, her followers weren’t as keen to try out this cleaning ‘hack’.

Have you heard of this ‘hack’ before? If you want other cleaning hacks to try out, we’ve got many in our forum. So, let us know if you’ve tried them out and tell us how effective they are – we’d love to hear your thoughts!

 

[Suzanne rose]

It makes me think ... what do these people do in their spare time to come up with these hacks.

I've been using the vinegar glass cleaner that was up on a post for a few weeks now and it worked amazing but all of a sudden it doesn't work it just smudges . .nothing else has been put on my mirrors or doors. I just used windex and they are sparkling again.

I wonder if there becomes a build up of vinegar.

Has anyone else used ..vinegar, dishwashing and water Method and found that this has also happened

 

[DiMcg]

Did you notice the mirror was clean in the first placenot a very good demonstration just a waste of a spud

 

[bigspark342]

Its NOT a hack.. it is called knowledge....

 

[Toreodor]

Keeping a clean and presentable home can sometimes feel like a never-ending battle. It seems like as soon as you finish one task, another one pops up in its place.

One of the most frustrating areas to keep clean is often the bathroom mirror. No matter how much effort you put into it, or how many ‘cleaning hacks’ you use, streaks always seem to end up appearing soon after.

Fortunately, there may be a solution to this problem hiding right in your pantry.

According to cleaning duo Jimmy and Laura Astuces, raw potatoes can be used to clean mirrors.

In the ‘life hack’ they shared on social media, Laura demonstrated how she used half a potato to clean her bathroom mirror.

She spritzed water on the mirror’s surface, took the raw potato and rubbed the cut side on the glass. She finished by ‘buffing’ the potato residue with a cloth.

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Potatoes are (allegedly) perfect for cleaning glass. Credit: Pixabay/Pexels

To demonstrate the effectiveness of her ‘hack’, Laura threw a glass of water at the mirror and it slid cleanly off the surface.

Potatoes contain oxalic acid, which is great at removing rust from common household items such as knives and tarnishes from silverware. Potatoes are also used by car owners to prevent fogging on their car windows.

Potatoes allegedly remove small stains from fabric as well.

Albeit unorthodox, the video amassed over 4.3 million views, but many weren’t as keen on trying it.

‘Why would you do this when soap has the same effect?’ wrote one.

‘Food wasted. Wouldn’t it be better to eat the potato instead?’ Someone asked before adding that potato peels work just as well.

A third added: ‘Not [trying it] with these inflated food prices.’

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Laura demonstrated the ‘hack’ on Instagram. Credit: jimmy_decom/Instagram

Across the globe, inflation rates have spiked drastically, with food and energy prices hitting high records.

In Australia, there’s a national potato shortage that was caused by wild weather earlier in the year, and it’s starting to affect other food items as well. You can read more about that here.

You can watch Laura’s demonstration here.

Key Takeaways

• According to Laura Astuces, you can use a potato to clean your bathroom mirror and prevent it from fogging up.
• She demonstrated this by spritzing water onto a mirror before cutting a raw potato in half and rubbing the cut side onto the glass. Then, she ‘buffed’ the mirror with a dry cloth.
• She said in the comments that potatoes can be used to remove rust from knives and tarnish from silverware.
• However, her followers weren’t as keen to try out this cleaning ‘hack’.

Have you heard of this ‘hack’ before? If you want other cleaning hacks to try out, we’ve got many in our forum. So, let us know if you’ve tried them out and tell us how effective they are – we’d love to hear your thoughts!

 

[Toreodor]

An age-old trick we used back in the 50s and 60s, especially when driving British cars fitted with Lucas Electric wipers, which did not always work. When the wipers stopped during rain, you wiped a cut spud onto the outside of the windscreen and continued driving. The potato residue prevented the rain from adhering to the screen for quite a while.

 

[Luckyus]

Keeping a clean and presentable home can sometimes feel like a never-ending battle. It seems like as soon as you finish one task, another one pops up in its place.

One of the most frustrating areas to keep clean is often the bathroom mirror. No matter how much effort you put into it, or how many ‘cleaning hacks’ you use, streaks always seem to end up appearing soon after.

Fortunately, there may be a solution to this problem hiding right in your pantry.

According to cleaning duo Jimmy and Laura Astuces, raw potatoes can be used to clean mirrors.

In the ‘life hack’ they shared on social media, Laura demonstrated how she used half a potato to clean her bathroom mirror.

She spritzed water on the mirror’s surface, took the raw potato and rubbed the cut side on the glass. She finished by ‘buffing’ the potato residue with a cloth.

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Potatoes are (allegedly) perfect for cleaning glass. Credit: Pixabay/Pexels

To demonstrate the effectiveness of her ‘hack’, Laura threw a glass of water at the mirror and it slid cleanly off the surface.

Potatoes contain oxalic acid, which is great at removing rust from common household items such as knives and tarnishes from silverware. Potatoes are also used by car owners to prevent fogging on their car windows.

Potatoes allegedly remove small stains from fabric as well.

Albeit unorthodox, the video amassed over 4.3 million views, but many weren’t as keen on trying it.

‘Why would you do this when soap has the same effect?’ wrote one.

‘Food wasted. Wouldn’t it be better to eat the potato instead?’ Someone asked before adding that potato peels work just as well.

A third added: ‘Not [trying it] with these inflated food prices.’

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Laura demonstrated the ‘hack’ on Instagram. Credit: jimmy_decom/Instagram

Across the globe, inflation rates have spiked drastically, with food and energy prices hitting high records.

In Australia, there’s a national potato shortage that was caused by wild weather earlier in the year, and it’s starting to affect other food items as well. You can read more about that here.

You can watch Laura’s demonstration here.

Key Takeaways

• According to Laura Astuces, you can use a potato to clean your bathroom mirror and prevent it from fogging up.
• She demonstrated this by spritzing water onto a mirror before cutting a raw potato in half and rubbing the cut side onto the glass. Then, she ‘buffed’ the mirror with a dry cloth.
• She said in the comments that potatoes can be used to remove rust from knives and tarnish from silverware.
• However, her followers weren’t as keen to try out this cleaning ‘hack’.

Have you heard of this ‘hack’ before? If you want other cleaning hacks to try out, we’ve got many in our forum. So, let us know if you’ve tried them out and tell us how effective they are – we’d love to hear your thoughts!

Don't forget the old one wiping the mirror with newspaper.