An amazing green cleaner you probably don’t use.
Any half-decent chef or baker most likely has a jar of it stashed somewhere, something that they bought long ago, for that one project that one time, and then ignored forevermore. And the name may ring a bell for you, but maybe only in that vaguely-familiar way. Snicker doodle cookies? Fish sticks? All the way at the very back of your spice cabinet, pushed into the farthest corner and long forgotten, is that little jar of eco-friendly DIY green cleaning gold: cream of tartar. Tartaric acid is a white crystalline by-product of wine making that’s affectionately referred to as “wine diamonds.” What a name! And when it’s collected and ground into powder, it becomes cream of tartar: the secret ingredient in snicker doodles, and the newest secret weapon in your green cleaning arsenal. There’s about a million and one ways to use cream of tartar around the house, but here are 10 of the very best: 1. Polish copper using a paste made from 1 part cream of tartar and 1 part fres...