In addition to having virtues, in particular the reduction of the risk of cardiovascular accident when it is consumed moderately, coffee can also be an ally of choice at home. Guest of the show Well done for youthe “Household Viking” Alexandre Cressiot comes to explain how he recovers coffee grounds or seeds to deodorize, clean and even promote the growth of his plants.
Deodorize your refrigerator
After consuming coffee, Alexandre Cressiot regularly collects his coffee grounds and puts them “in a cup, a small bowl, which I place in the fridge” to remove bad smells, he says at the microphone of Julia Vignali and Melanie Gomez. A useful tip, especially at the approach of winter and its traditional dishes. “When it’s raclette season, I put twice as much. I prepare two small cups, I put one at the bottom of the fridge and one at the top, and it absorbs odors enormously”, underlines the one who is also a domestic good humor coach.
Degrease the pipes
The author of the book Don’t throw in the towel ensures that he also pours it into his sink pipes, washbasin once a month. “I’m doing a little makeover to my pipes, which is to say I pour coffee grounds in the evening, the last time we’re going to use tap water. I leave it overnight in the pipe, it will deodorize it”, he says, “all the more so when you live in a building since you pick up the bad smells from the neighbors’ pipes”.
In addition to eliminating bad odors, this trick will help degrease, he adds. “You shouldn’t do it too often”, however tempers Alexandre Cressiot.
Clean your stainless steel
The small coffee beans also have a use for cleaning certain surfaces, and also the body, adds the “Viking of the household”. “You can use it as a scrub (scrub). You can very well use it for the body. can put it on the face”, details Alexandre Cressiot on Europe 1.
This technique also works to “clean your stainless steel by mixing it with a tiny bit of black soap or dishwashing liquid. It will make a little scrub that will unhook everything that is attached to the stainless steel”, evokes the coach in good domestic mood.
Promote plant growth
Finally, the last virtue of coffee, and more precisely of its marc, concerns the plantation because in the ground, it acts as a natural fertilizer. “(Coffee grounds) are full of antioxidants, but also potassium. It’s full of good things for you, and for the soil. We can put it at the foot of our plants, it will enrich the soil, give potassium, oxygenate it and it will accelerate the growth of plants”, notes Alexandre Cressiot.