While searching for topics for our blog, we have come across a very weird question. Never before, we have ever thought that there could be such a question. As the kitchen is such an important part of our home and life, we have decided that we should write about - how often should I clean my kitchen?
The room called the kitchen is one of the most important parts of our life. Why, you ask? Let us consider our home or house or apartment as our body. If that is so, then the kitchen should be equal to our stomach or digestive system. If we have a problem in our kitchen, we will have a problem in our digestive system.
Do you see the relationship? So, keeping your kitchen sparkling clean, and disinfected is your holy duty as a resident. You can live without eating for a day, but never ever forget to keep your kitchen clean even for a day! Just the interval of a day can cause various things such as cockroaches to start crawling everywhere.
Apart from that, it depends on what kind of cleaning you should do in your kitchen. It all depends on factors like pets, kids, visitors, residents, etc. Pets are animals and they obviously are not humans, and you cannot expect them to understand what being a human is, or how clean a human expects his home to be.
They will be pets and you will have to clean after them. You cannot expect animals to behave like humans, right? Crawling babies or little kids will trash your kitchen by dropping food everywhere as they tend to walk while they eat. Visitors do not know your house rules, so they often can make mistakes in the kitchen, and lastly, even residents can have unruly behaviors in the kitchen.
They may have a habit of dirtying their kitchen while making their food. It is better to make a priority of items that you need to clean. Make a short list of kitchen cleaning! That will be your starting point.
A clean area of your house is psychologically comforting. It relieves you of your stress, and also visually pleasing, comforting, and inviting. Same thing goes for your kitchen. Kitchen is one place that can get ugly very quickly, especially if you have a lot of lazy people who eat at their separate times but love to leave the dishes or cooking pots in the sink.
A pile of dirty kitchen utensils looks hideous, and can quickly drain your motivation and firm determination to clean the kitchen. Cleaning the kitchen is not a single person's work. It is more like a community service type work where everyone needs to lend their hands.
There are people who are so shameless that they not only never cook, but also never share the load of kitchen work. They love to leave their dirty dishes for others saying they will clean later, and ‘later’ never comes. They will blatantly eat what others cook saying they will cook later.
These people should be punished by the community and kicked out of a shared house without any second consideration for the sound health of the community within the house. They can go live with the homeless people who do not need to do their dishes. They can go eat food from the community shelters for free and they do not have to do any dishes because they will be using disposable cups and plates.
Anyway, leave your dishes for later and believe in this fact - the ‘later’ will never come. Always do your dirty dishes the moment you have finished eating. Demand help from others, and enforce the law even if you have to spank a grown up man or woman for not doing their part in the kitchen. The safety of your stomach begins in the kitchen - remember this.
It is very important to have a clean kitchen, especially a neat and clean cooking and food preparation range. If you have ever taken a cooking class or have worked in the kitchen - the first thing you will be doing is cleaning. The chefs will never teach you how to cook, unless you have learned how to clean.
In a kitchen, you first work as a kitchen hand. The duties are to clean pots, pans, and dishes, regularly changing the bin liners, taking out garbage, wipe the cooking range, tables, chopping boards, burners, and lastly thoroughly clean the kitchen floor with detergent, brush and a hose.
You will see even the chefs will work with you cleaning the kitchen because it is not a one man job. You will be surprised to see how serious, fast and efficient the chefs and cooks are in cleaning. You will feel a kind of camaraderie, and get a sense of teamwork.
When it is the closing time in a kitchen, after the cleaning you will be proud of the work you have done. Everyone appreciates how important your work has been. You will be applauded for your efficiency. You may not be able to cook for a long time, but you will be praised for your cleaning duties, if done properly, everyday.
It is rewarding, visually pleasing, and psychologically comforting and satisfying. It gives a feeling of achievement. It is like winning a tough battle against all odds. You will feel much in control. There are comparatively less bacteria, germs, insects, and other creatures in a properly cleaned kitchen. It is said that in a clean kitchen you will eat less and in a dirty kitchen you tend to eat more. Maybe there is a deeper meaning in this.
An inexperienced person will just start from anywhere in the kitchen and even after a few hours, he will find himself with a partially cleaned kitchen and a very tired body and mind. However, an experienced person will know exactly where to start and he will have a definite plan. Let us have a look at a few strategies. This can be applied to kitchens of all sizes.
You can divide the cleaning work based on the frequency at which you need to perform them. For example, you can find work that is daily, weekly, monthly, etc. The heavier and more difficult work such as cleaning tiles should be done once in a while and by professionals. So, you should choose how you want to perform the cleaning work.
There are things that you have to do everyday without fail. Believe me, if you do not do them everyday, you will initiate chaos in your kitchen. Please, take note of the followings:
If you have a dishwasher, always empty it. Put the clean dishes in their places. Then load the dirty dishes, and clean them.
Next will be to clean the counters before and after you prepare your cooking ingredients.
Put all the rubbish in the bin liners to dispose of later.
After cooking, clean the food preparation counter, sink, burners, and the surrounding areas of the burner like tiles. Wipe of oil spillages and such. Use cleaning solutions. If you have prepared raw meat and fishes, then use disinfectant agents to wipe them after you clean them.
Clean the floors with brooms and then mop the floor with floor cleaning agents.
Unload the washing machine and load the dirty cutleries, dishes and pans. Clean all the heavy and bigger pans and dishes in the sink.
For weekly cleaning, you can divert your attention to your refrigerator, water purifier or water filter, move piled up pots kept in the kitchen and clean the hidden areas, etc. These are once a week type of work. Check the expiry date of your dairy products, and throw out the expired items.
You can also choose a top down method for cleaning. You start from the top cupboards, kitchen cabinets, overhead bunks, etc. Dust them off, and then wipe them clean with wet towels. Then clean the middle coming from the top, like the kitchen countertops, sinks, cooking range, etc. Then move to the floor. This is what you call a top down method.
Cleaning a kitchen is a heavy duty job. You can take help from your family members. Tell them why it is important to have a neat kitchen. If you are alone, then break down your works by their types and slowly finish them.
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