How do these baking soda/vinegar cleaning hacks work

Question

You often see videos of people using baking soda, vinegar and boiling water to clean stains in the kitchen or the bathroom. From my understanding these ingredients should simply neutralise each other. So how does it help cleaning? Or is it simply a social media myth

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

I use a moist paste of baking soda on cookware. It works great as a mild abrasive that removes stains but won’t scratch metal or ceramics.