LOUISVILLE, Ky., --- June 18, 2013 --- (NYSE: GE) --- Between backyard barbecues, graduation celebrations and pool parties, entertaining at home is popular during the summer months. Make sure everything is perfect---and that your appliances, critical to the success of your party, are ready to perform -- by adding a few appliance tune-ups to your pre-party preparation.
Refrigerator cleaning tips
When guests arrive and need to chill their desserts for your party, the last thing you want them to see is an unkempt refrigerator. A few helpful tips will keep a tidy fridge for all occasions.
- Prevent scents from sticking around by using an odor eliminator to remove unwanted smells immediately. The new GE Café French door refrigerator features an odor filter that is designed to allow you---at the touch of a button---to reduce unwanted odors within the fresh food section.
- As a rule with all stainless steel appliances, do not clean with appliance wax, polish, bleach or other products containing chlorine on stainless steel. Instead, stainless steel polishing wipes are available to clean the surfaces.
- For the cleanest, freshest water and ice cubes, make sure the filter is changed every six months. All of the new GE French door refrigerators feature the most advanced water filtration system in the industry.* The system has been tested and certified by an independent third party to remove 98 percent of five trace pharmaceuticals.
Squeaky clean dishes and dishwasher
You're guests are sure to notice spotted stemware or hard water build up on your glasses. You can prevent this, with help from your dishwasher.
- Clean the dishwasher filters, which are located under the bottom rack at the base of your dishwasher, every other month. Scouring pads or brushes can damage the filters, but a soft brush or sponge may be needed to remove stubborn soils or calcium deposits caused by hard water. If there is a decrease in wash performance or dishes feel gritty, this is an indication the filters need to be cleaned.
- To remove hard water buildup, run a product such as LemiShine Hard Water Dishwasher Cleaner through the cycle.
- Dust off summer stemware by running it through a cycle before setting it out. GE's new dishwasher with exclusive Wash Zones gives you the best option out there---running a half load on either the top or the bottom rack while still combining your favorite cycles and options such as sanitize cycle or steam pre-wash.
Great results load after load
Make house guests and partygoers feel at home with the freshest, cleanest sheets, towels and tablecloths.
- Keep the inside of the washer, which chlorine-infused bathing suits and summer sand have passed through, clean by running a monthly cleaning cycle. Newer models have a special washer cleaning cycle, but if yours doesn't, add liquid chlorine bleach to the dispenser and run a normal cycle, or use a specialty cleaner, such as Tide Washing Machine Cleaner.
- Make a mess during the barbeque? GE's new topload and frontload washers includes Stain Removal Guide -- simply press a button to tackle four of the most common clothing stains (tomato sauce, cooking oil, grass and dirt) . Getting those piles and piles of summer clothes out of storage? SmartDispense™, an industry first for toploading models, stores up to a gallon each (two months of laundry on average) of detergent and fabric softener and automatically dispenses them.
Keep your grill clean and your food will shine
Your grilled food could make or break your guests' experience. Make sure your grill is in its best shape prior to your guests' arrival by following these steps after each use.
- Clean grill grates immediately after cooking is complete and flame is turned off, while the food particles are still hot and not yet stuck to the grates.
- Dip a brass bristle barbeque brush in cold tap water and scrub the hot grate, dipping the brush frequently in the bowl of water. Steam, created as water contacts the hot grill, assists the cleaning process by softening any food particles.
- For harder baked-on food particles, remove the grill grate and soak for about one hour in warm water. Lightly scrub with a pad, and then you're ready for your next grilling venture.
As summer entertaining heats up, be sure to run through this checklist first so you can kick back and relax with your party guests.
*Removes ibuprofen, atenolol, fluoxetine, progesterone, and trimethoprim. Not all pharmaceuticals may be present in your water.
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Kim Freeman
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