Some great uses for baking soda

1. If sweet cream is starting to sour, restore its sweetness with a pinch of baking soda.
   
2. Add a pinch of baking soda to keep icing moist and to prevent cracking.
   
3. Always add half a cup of soda to your washing machine load.
   
4. Sprinkle dry soda on a damp cloth and use it to polish silverware. Rinse and dry the items that were polished.
   
5. Sprinkle soda on a greasy garage floor. Let it stay for a while, then scrub and rinse.
   
6. Sprinkle soda on barbecue grills. Keep for a while, then rinse.
   
7. Clean baby bottles with soda and hot water.
   
8. Run you coffee maker through its cycle with a soda solution, then rinse
   
9. Wash glass or stainless steel coffee pots (not aluminium) in a soda solution (3 tbsp. soda to 1 litre water).
   
10. To remove stubborn stains on plastic surfaces, scrub the stains with a paste of soda and water.