Remove Stir Fry Sauce Stains

By Matt Oden | Comments | Food and Drink Stains → Stir Fry Sauce

All too many of us are more than familiar with the seeking feeling of realizing we need to remove stir fry sauce stains. Everyone can appreciate the fresh flavor medley that a stir fry can offer, and stir fry sauce can add that little bit of an extra zing that you are looking for with your dinner. Unfortunately, stir fry sauces also contain ingredients that can stain and leave oily residue behind them.

With swift action and a few basic cleaning supplies on hand, you’ll soon be able to remove stir fry sauce stains from the surfaces that have unfortunately fallen victim to this delicious sauce! As with any stains, the sooner that you are able to treat the stir fry stains, the better your chances are at completely removing all traces of them. The thing that can make stir fry sauce a bit of a challenge is the fact that the oils can soak into the fibers of the fabric and permanently set if the wrong cleaning methods are used.

Remove Stir Fry Sauce Stains From Fabric

What You Will Need Before You Start

Cornstarch
Oxygen bleach
White absorbent towel
Paper towels

A spill on your cotton shirt or your jeans can be incredibly irritating, especially if it happens at lunch time in the middle of the work day! While you may not be able to immediately treat the stain, there are a few things that you can definitely do once you get home. Keep in mind that a stain-remover pen can be a very handy thing to keep around in your car or in your purse.

Lay the white towel down on a flat surface, like your kitchen counter. Place the stained garment on top of it.
Blot up as much of the stain as you can, using paper towels.
Completely cover the stir fry sauce stain with cornstarch and allow the cornstarch to dry, for up to 20 minutes.
Shake the cornstarch off, over the sink or your trash can.
Fill the sink or a bucket with hot water and add a scoop of your favorite oxygen bleach product. Vinegar and baking soda can also be an effective combination if you don’t have any oxygen bleach.
Submerge the garment in the sudsy water and allow to soak for up to thirty minutes.
Rinse clean and launder the garment as per the care instructions on the tag.

You should never put the garments into the dryer until you are sure that the stain has been thoroughly removed. Doing so can permanently set the stain into the fibers of the fabric, which will essentially ruin your garment for you.

Remove Stir Fry Sauce Stains From Upholstery

What You Will Need Before You Start

Baking soda
Liquid dish detergent
Clean sponge
Paper towels
White absorbent towel

Save your favorite sofa from an unsightly stain that can quickly become a magnet for other dirt and grime to stick to, with just a few simple steps.

Use a few paper towels to blot up the excess liquids from the spill.
Sprinkle a liberal amount of baking soda onto the stain. This will work to lift out the oils in the stir fry sauce.
Vacuum up or brush off the dried baking soda after about thirty minutes.
Create a paste using the liquid dish detergent and the baking soda.
Apply the cleansing paste to the stain and allow it to soak into the fibers of the upholstered furniture, for up to fifteen minutes.
Using a clean sponge and warm water, remove the cleaning paste. It may take a few swipes but you should ultimately pull the stain and the sudsy cleaning solution out of the fibers of the furniture.
Continue to blot at the area with clean water until all of the suds have been removed.
Press a white absorbent towel firmly onto the damp area so that you can absorb the moisture from cleaning.

Be sure to pull up as much of the excess moisture as you can, otherwise the damp area could itself become a magnet for dirt and grime before it has been allowed to thoroughly dry.

Remove Stir Fry Sauce Stains From Silk

What You Will Need Before You Start

Paper towels
Corn starch
White absorbent towel
Clean sponge
Rubbing alcohol

Wearing your best silk tie or shirt pretty much guarantees that something is going to spill on it. Don’t let a spill of stir fry sauce put a damper on your day; with just a few cleaning steps, you’ll be able to swiftly remove stir fry sauce stains from silk.

Place the silk item onto the white absorbent towel, laying it flat on a surface like your kitchen counter.
Carefully blot up as much of the stain as you can, using the paper towels.
Sprinkle cornstarch or baby powder onto the stain so that the oils can be absorbed. Allow the powder to remain on the silk for up to thirty minutes, or until completely dry.
Shake the dried powder off into the trash can and lay the silk item back onto the flat surface.
Blot at any remaining stain with rubbing alcohol, taking care not to smear or crush the silk too much. Silk is very delicate and it is all too easy to damage it accidentally when trying to remove stir fry sauce stains.

Once all traces of the stain have been removed, you can launder the garment as per the recommended suggestions for that particular item. Your professional cleaner might be the best choice for cleaning silk, however. They have the specialized skills and tools needed to effective remove stir fry sauce stains and other stains that could otherwise render the garment useless.

Remove Stir Fry Sauce Stains From Carpet

What You Will Need Before You Start

Cornstarch
Paper towels
White absorbent towels
Clean sponge
White vinegar
Liquid dish detergent

A spill on your carpet doesn’t need to leave you wringing your hands with frustration. But it should definitely make you move swiftly. A spill on carpet that is left too long can quickly become a magnet for other dirt and grime to stick to. This will leave you with a stain that is just that more challenging to work out of the carpet.

Use paper towels to blot up any excess spilled sauce from fresh stains.
Apply a liberal sprinkling of cornstarch to the stain so that you can then absorb as much of the oil from the sauce as possible. Allow the powder to sit on the stain for up to twenty minutes and then vacuum up, using a hand-held attachment.
Mix a teaspoon of liquid dish detergent with a cup of white vinegar and blot it onto the remaining stain.
Continue to blot with the clean sponge, and press a white towel firmly onto the area after each few blots. Within a few short minutes you should start to see noticeable progress with the size and color of the stain.
Use another clean sponge and fresh water to sop up any remaining suds from the liquid dish detergent, and blot dry thoroughly using another white towel.
Place a heavy item firmly on top of the white towel as an effective means of absorbing the remaining water in the carpet.

Try to avoid allowing anyone to walk on the carpet; otherwise they could track dirt across it, which would just leave you with another grimy mess to deal with.