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

Despite the popularity of these “hacks,” the mixture produces water and salts. That does nothing to clean the home. What cleans the home is the grit of baking soda and the scrubbing you do to be clean up.

https://theconversation.com/vinegar-and-baking-soda-a-cleaning-hack-or-just-a-bunch-of-fizz-225177