Spot-cleaning kitchen cabinets after spills and drips is easy enough, but finding a process and product that removes the grime and grease from many a meal preparation takes patience and a little bit of label research (especially if you are tackling a painted surface).

I tested four cabinet cleaners — two spray formulas, a plant-based product, and a traditional oil soap — to find out which product would clean my kitchen cabinets best. Here’s what I discovered, and how you can clean greasy cabinets.

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Poppy seed dressing has a balance of sweet and tangy that I find completely irresistible. It’s great on a Spinach and Strawberry Salad, makes a fun spin in a coleslaw, and also does wonders as a marinade for chicken. It’s the Jack-of-all-trades of the salad dressing world.

This dressing is also surprisingly easy to make yourself. For years, it was so automatic to just pick up a bottle at the store that it never occurred to me that I could make it myself. Now that I have, I’m more smitten than ever.

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From Apartment Therapy → Don’t Wait to Move Before Cleaning These 5 Things

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Has that cut of meat been sitting in the fridge too long? Instead of relying on the wholly unscientific sniff test, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a sensor that aims to answer that question definitively.

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Do you shop in Mexican or Latin American grocery stores? If not, you may be missing out on some good ingredients — not to mention good deals on groceries you usually buy elsewhere.

We sat down and talked to Top Chef Season 12 finalist Melissa King about some of her experiences with Mexican cuisine, and she shared with us some of the ingredients she always stocks up on when she’s shopping in those stores!

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