Clean (Almost!) Every Unique Appliance in Your Home With These How-Tos

Check out these top cleaning videos to help you tackle some of your more unusual kitchen cleaning challenges.

By: Erica Reitman

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While you might have experience cleaning your oven, dishwasher or refrigerator, things get a bit trickier when you need to tackle cleaning your more unique appliances. How do you clean a turkey fryer or a Vitamix, for example? Thankfully, Youtube has all the answers we’re looking for.

Crock-Pot Smart Slow Cooker With WeMo

Late night at the office? Set this Crock-Pot in the morning, then check the temperature throughout the day on your phone, or turn it off from your desk. Dinner will be ready as soon as you are.

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Clean Your ... Coffee Maker

Cleaning your coffee maker should include way more than simply rinsing out the pot. This video goes into some detail and gives different tips depending on the type of coffee maker that you have: French press, standard coffee makers and Keurigs are all covered. I learned that putting pieces from your coffee maker into the dishwasher is not necessarily a good idea. Oops!

Watch This: How to Clean Your Coffee Maker

Clean Your ... Electric Turkey Fryer

Now that we've made it through the holidays, it's time to clean out the turkey fryer. I realize that we all don’t necessarily even have a turkey fryer, but if you do this video goes into some great details about how the heck you clean that thing. And there are some tips that might be helpful to you even if you’re just looking to clean a standard fryer.

Watch This: How to Clean + Store Your Electric Turkey Fryer

Clean Your ... Roomba Vacuum

It’s funny to think about keeping something like a Roomba clean which is designed to clean up your floors. But vacuums need to be cleaned out, too! And that doesn’t just mean cleaning out a filter. This video takes you step-by-step through taking apart your Roomba in a variety of spots to ensure that each and every part of the machine is squeaky clean.

Watch This: Clean Your Roomba Vacuum 650

(Deep!) Clean Your ... Vitamix

Before watching this video, I didn’t realize I could clean my Vitamix by actually putting soapy water into the main pitcher and running the blender through a cycle. There are some additional tips for further deep cleaning just in case you have a LOT of kale and spinach to clean up from your constant smoothie blending.

Watch This: How to Deep Clean Your Vitamix

Clean Your ... Waffle Iron

Man, there are a lot of rules for cleaning a waffle iron and I didn’t know a single one of them. There are certain things you shouldn’t do and some things you should, and this video gives you some quick details about everything. I also learned that there are actually special sponges for non-stick surfaces.

Watch This: How to Clean Off Baked-On Cooking From a Waffle Iron

Clean Your ... Crock Pot or Slow Cooker

This vlogger shares her process for deep-cleaning her slow cooker or crock pot. She uses some unusual cleaning materials and takes you through her process from start to finish. She also starts off with a crock pot that has some serious caked-on food, so you really get to see how she removes it with each and every step. It's seriously satisfying.

Watch This: Crock Pot Cleaning Tips

Clean Your ... Immersion Blender

Immersion blenders are fairly simple to clean, and you can watch the process in this how-to video. The process and cleaning techniques will be useful to you no matter what type of hand blender you have, so it’s worth a watch.

Watch This: Hand Blender Cleaning + Storing

Clean Your ... Toaster Oven

Cleaning your toaster oven is no joke and is an overlooked appliance, as many of the crumbs remain hidden away and undetected until a fire starts. This video takes you through the cleaning process and even offers some extra tips such as how to remove plastic that might have melted on the front of your toaster oven window.

Watch This: How to Clean Your Toaster Oven

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