Best advice for keeping your kitchen clean

The best advice for keeping your kitchen clean is to focus on one part at a time.

You can suddenly feel overwhelmed when you think you must do everything at once, but breaking up your tasks into chunks makes things much more manageable.

Make a Cleaning Schedule

It’s tough to find the time or the motivation to clean your entire kitchen at once. Instead, you can make life easier by creating a set schedule for different tasks. For example, Tuesdays might be when you sweep and mop your floors while you scrub and wipe down your stove on Thursdays.

Do a Little Organizing

You can find everything you need to cook much faster if you’ve got an organizational system in place. Instead of haphazardly shoving all your plastic containers in your kitchen cabinets, use a divider to separate them by lid and container size. You can do the same thing for your pots and pans by using hooks to hang them near your oven for convenient grabbing.

Pre-treat the stovetop, oven, pots, and baking dishes

Before sitting down to enjoy your dinner, get in the habit of spraying any baked-on stains or spills and soaking pots and pans so they have time to break down. They will be much easier to clean.

Prevent cross-contamination from cutting boards.

Use separate boards for meat and wash your hands so you don’t spread germs. Cross-contamination is the transfer of germs or bacteria from food or a surface. In your kitchen, you might accidentally spread germs from raw meat to vegetables, for instance, if you use the same cutting board without washing it. To keep your kitchen safe, designate a separate cutting board for meat or seafood and always wash your hands, knife, and cutting board after handling raw meat.

Store your knives off of the counter.

Hang the knives from a magnetic strip or push them into a knife block. To prevent accidental cuts, don’t leave knives lying on the counter or store them in a drawer. Instead, hang them on a magnetized strip on the wall or stick them into a block on the counter.

Use Rags

Using rags to clean up spills and surfaces helps immensely. It cuts down on trash because you can just use one rag and rinse it out as needed, instead of tearing off paper towel after paper towel and throwing them away after one wipe. You can hang the rag on your sink faucet, which keeps it out of the way, as opposed to having clusters of used paper towels hanging out on your counters.

Scrub your sink

Wash the inside of your sink and faucet every day to remove bacteria. A typical kitchen sink has more bacteria than a trash can! To clean your sink, wash the faucet and sink with hot, soapy water. To deep-clean it, wipe the surface with a diluted bleach mixture. You may want to do this once a week to keep your kitchen sanitized, especially if you cook a lot.

Clean benchtops and cabinets

Once meals are devoured and all surfaces are free of clutter, grab your microfibre cloth or spray n’ wipe and give the benchtops and sink a thorough wipe down. Bacteria can live in moist environments so finish off with a quick buff using a dry cloth. And don’t forget to spot clean any cabinets that may have food splatters too.

Keep your fridge clean

Every day or so remove items from the fridge that are no longer useful. Remove anything that is out of date and be sure to reorganize your vegetable crisper every few days to ensure the longevity of the remaining produce. Wipe down the shelves and pop in a box of baking soda at the back of the fridge to capture any odors.

Cleaning floors & skirting

The finishing touch for your kitchen clean should be vacuuming the floor to clear away any loose food, dust or pet hair. Empty the bins and if needed, give the kitchen a quick clean with the mop/steam mop. You’ll be surprised what a difference mopping the kitchen floor after a big clean makes to your room’s overall appearance.

Take out the trash

Putting the trash out keeps your kitchen fresh and prevents bacterial growth. If you don’t typically take out the trash until it’s full, you might not realize how smelly it’s making your kitchen, especially if there’s no lid on top. Start taking out the trash at the end of each day so your kitchen smells great and food in the trash can doesn’t begin to rot, which can grow maggots and fruit flies.

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