cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 7 days agoCan baking soda + vinegar really unclog a sink, what sorcery is this?message-squaremessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareCan baking soda + vinegar really unclog a sink, what sorcery is this?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 7 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoIt’ll fizz as the acidic vinegar and basic baking soda neutralize each other. I don’t think that I’d call it very useful for unclogging things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_drain_cleaners Chemical drain cleaners or openers are pure or mixtures of chemicals used to unclog drains that are blocked by hair, food, or other organic materials. They may contain either strong acids (in liquid forms) or strong alkalis (in either solid or liquid forms). You probably want either an acid or a base so that they react with whatever is clogging your drain, not both, where they’ll react with each other.
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoIt works on small clogs if you fill the drain with soda and pour the vinegar in, you can get some of the debris dislodged from the volcano action…but its not eating through a solid fatburg
It’ll fizz as the acidic vinegar and basic baking soda neutralize each other. I don’t think that I’d call it very useful for unclogging things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_drain_cleaners
You probably want either an acid or a base so that they react with whatever is clogging your drain, not both, where they’ll react with each other.
It works on small clogs if you fill the drain with soda and pour the vinegar in, you can get some of the debris dislodged from the volcano action…but its not eating through a solid fatburg