Hair Dryer Day #1!

Handheld hair dryers are perfect for hairdos but they can also be used in other surprising ways around the house. Here are a handful of them…

Hard-to-dust items

Use a hair dryer to dust hard-to-dust items. The air will blow the dust somewhere else, but hopefully somewhere else that is easier to dust.

Removing contact paper

Remove contact paper from shelves by heating it with the hair dryer and gently working the edges up. Also works for bumper stickers and other rogue sticky things.

Jammed ice-makers

Automatic ice-makers can get jammed with frozen ice. Relieve that with a long blast of hot air from your hair dryer to melt unwanted icebergs.

Defrosting a freezer

Some people use pots of boiling water to quicken freezer defrosting, but a hot hair dryer works even more quickly. Be careful of puddles of water and the dryer, though!

Scooping ice cream

Running an ice cream scoop under hot water helps, but you can also try using a hair dryer on the carton to soften ice cream for easy scooping.

Unstick cake from pan

If your cake will not unstick from the cake pan, use your hair dryer on the bottom of the pan then invert it, it should drop right out.

Icing your cake

If you need to quickly set the icing on a cake, the air and heat of a hair dryer can quicken up the process.