It's interesting (frustrating) how many times I try to find a guide on cleaning something it always inevitably leads me to dozens of guides which boil down to "make a paste out of vinegar and baking soda and put it on there". People really think that because it fizzes that shit can do everything!! It'll clean my old sneakers and my bathroom tiles grout! Unclog my drains! Make my dishwasher work again! (Admittedly it did make it smell better, so credit for that, though it didn't improve performance). I've given these things a chance and they just don't fucking WORK!
But like these guides are so commonplace and hard to sift through thanks to the whole industry of turning the industry into listicles and SEO sludge pages that it's starting to make me actively angry when I encounter them!
Same thing for every page that recommends apple cider vinegar as a home remedy for anything; same magical property that makes people include it on every list.
If I see a cleaning tutorial recommending a paste of vinegar and baking soda I know to safely disregard anything they recommend because they have no idea what they're talking about.
Baking soda is a base Vinegar is an acid
you know what happens when you mix them? They neutralize each other (which is the fun fizzy reaction SEO listicles are so enamored with)
You are better off using any of those substances independently than mixing them up.
Those cleaning guides are all copying each other's homework to show up on the first page of google results, and less than useless. None of them are from experience, if they tried shit out they would see it doesn't fucking work. In fact, some of them know it doesn't fucking work because they need to include "before" and "after" pictures per their site's content guidelines, and they are all faked.
It doesn't matter that it's useless, because the goal is not to help you do anything, it's to get clicks and ad revenue
