{"id":70,"date":"2013-01-17T05:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/17\/unusual-uses-for-vegetable-oil\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T05:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T03:05:33","slug":"unusual-uses-for-vegetable-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/unusual-uses-for-vegetable-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual uses for vegetable oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Corn oil and vegetable oil are common staples in our kitchen pantries. We use them for cooking but did you know that they could be used for many other things as well? Here are some unusual things you can use corn or vegetable oil for around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Corn and vegetable oil are excellent wood conditioners. If you have butcher-block tables, cutting boards, wooden spoons, or unfinished furniture you can condition them using regular cooking oil. Just rub the oil into the wood with a soft cloth and reapply as necessary to keep your wood nourished. Unfinished wood can dry out quickly in the winter from the heat but the oil will keep it moist<\/p>\n<p>Make your own furniture polish with vegetable or corn oil. Just add a half a cup of vinegar or lemon juice to a cup of oil and pour the mixture into a spray bottle. Spray your furniture polish onto your wood and rub it off with a dust cloth. Try your polish on kitchen cabinet doors and wooden doors around the house too Vegetable and corn oil can be used to shine stainless steel. Rub the oil onto your stainless steel sinks or appliances and buff off with a soft cloth and your steel will look brand new If you want to remove stickers from your furniture, windows, or floors just rub on a bit of oil. When the sticker is saturated it will come up easily.&nbsp; f you are an artist or you have just finished painting with an oil-based paint you would normally need to use a paint thinner to get the paint from your skin. A bit of vegetable or corn oil rubbed onto the paint will help remove it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn oil and vegetable oil are common staples in our kitchen pantries. We use them for cooking but did you know that they could be used for many other things as well? Here are some unusual things you can use corn or vegetable oil for around the house. Corn and vegetable oil are excellent wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[252,253,312],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","tag-handy-hints","tag-household","tag-unusual-uses-for-vegetable-oil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-18","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 18:58:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}