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A bachelor is supposed to live a life of clutter and untidiness unless of course, there is a Jeeves in the offing to do the cleaning up. This is an image that is long since out of date and bachelor or not, there is no longer any excuse for living in messy surroundings.
With the cost of eating out going up everyday and health concerns driving more and more people towards a healthier home cooked diet, keeping a kitchen clean and tidy is becoming an increasingly important aspect of home cleaning. While it’s always a good idea to use a house cleaning service on a regular basis, it’s easy to keep a flat and especially the kitchen from getting too dirty between the cleaner’s visits.
* Don’t just stand there waiting for your water to boil. Use the minute or two it takes to put things back in place or just tidy up in general.
* Is the thought of cleaning up afterwards one of the main reasons why you don’t cook at home? Designate a fixed counter space where you will do your work and discipline yourself to work only there. This will reduce the amount of space you need to clean.
* Wash pots and pans immediately after use. It’s easier to do it before the oil and food particles congeal and become hard to remove. Do the cleaning while other things are being cooked on the stove. Keep doing this and when the cooking is over, you won’t have more than one or two pots to clean.
* Once you finish eating, wash up immediately. A few plates won’t take much time and once its done, you’re free!
* The basic thing to keep in mind is to learn to multitask in the kitchen. Say you have something on the stove that will take 20 minutes to cook. You could go and watch TV during this time (and each time you cook) and get to the stage of dreading entering a kitchen in dire need of cleaning. Or you could use the twenty minute to get all the cleaning done and then relax.
You have a busy life and can’t be expected to devote time to home cleaning. But you can’t have the cleaners in every day and you can’t live in dirty surroundings. If you learn to clean up in the kitchen when waiting for something else to be completed, you’ll find it becomes a habit and as time passes you will be able to do the cleaning much faster. The kitchen cleaning is only a matter of minutes a day, not hours.
One of the jobs this writer has always hated doing is cleaning the inside of the oven. I’m not alone in this: one sales rep for Enjo house cleaning products, who always begins her talk by asking the assembled potential buyers what their least favourite household chore was, says that the two chores that crop up most frequently are cleaning the glass shower front and cleaning the inside of the oven (cleaning the toilet ranked third).
What really puts me (and probably others) off cleaning the oven is those nasty harsh chemicals that you’re supposed to use with good ventilation, heavy duty rubber gloves and possibly a face mask. These really strong alkaline cleaners are ferociously strong and while they certainly shift the gunk inside the oven, they are pretty bad news environmentally.
So can you clean the inside of the oven without these nasty chemicals? The top of the oven is easy enough – a quick sprinkle of baking soda rubbed on vigorously with a soft damp cloth, followed by wiping off with a second damp cloth. Or else use an Enjo (or any other microfibre) cloth. But the inside of the oven? Is it possible?
Well, you can start making the clean-up job easier for yourself by developing some good habits. When you cook, make sure that anything fatty is covered so it doesn’t spit and spatter all over the place.
Use oven trays to stop things dripping, and watch out for things boiling over and rising over the edge of the pan. This should stop some of the gunge forming in the first place.
The second technique for lessening the chore of the domestic cleaningthe inside of the oven is to use a baking tray. Not for baking biscuits and scones, but as a disposable shield down the bottom of the oven.
Alternatively, use aluminium foil. In most electric ovens, you can lift up the bottom element and pop something into it, and this is what you should do. Any spills that do end up on this (and they always do) can just be hauled out when the time comes to change the aluminium lining. As an added bonus, this makes your oven more efficient, as the shiny aluminium reflects heat up so it heats your food rather than the bottom of the oven.
But you will still need to clean the inside of the oven properly. You need lots and lots of baking soda to do this, as you are going to have to coat the entire inside of the oven with a paste of baking soda and water. Don’t worry about the oven racks – just whip these out and do them separately. Leave that baking soda on the inside of the oven for half an hour. Then you go in and scrub all the paste and any gunk off. It will require some elbow grease and maybe a bit of help from a wooden or plastic scraper (or your fingernails). Another handy tool at this stage is a pot scrub made from those bags made from reticulated plastic that look like fishnet stockings (often, garlic and oranges come in them). These make great non-scratching scrubbers that never seem to wear out. Don’t use steel wool inside your oven or you will scratch it.
You can also use an Enjo mitt for cleaning the inside of the oven.
If you haven’t cleaned the oven for ages, you can loosen the grime up beforehand by putting an ovenproof bowl of water in the oven and turning on the oven so the water boils dry and goes to steam. This steam will loosen the grime. Leave the oven to cool down after this treatment before going in, but you only have to wait until it’s cool enough not to burn you rather than being completely cool – a bit of heat will help the cleaning job.
1. The most basic way of all: open the window to let the fresh air in and the stale, bad-smelling air out. It’s surprising how few people try this very simple method.
2. Burnt food is one of the most common sources of bad smells in the kitchen. To prevent these smells, clean beneath the elements on your stove top frequently or as soon as they look dingy (this job is made much easier if you line the dish-type thing under the element with tinfoil). Also clean out any crumbs from inside your toaster – this is easily done by inverting your toaster over the sink and shaking the crumbs out. For goodness’ sake, unplug the toaster first. Both these methods will also reduce the risk of kitchen fires and will also make your elements and toaster more efficient. If you need to clean a bit more thoroughly under the stove-top elements, use a paste of baking soda and water, rubbing off with a damp cloth or scrubbing with a soft bristle brush like a toothbrush to get off any really stubborn bits.
3. Don’t have carpet in your kitchen, as the kitchen is a “wet area” where spills happen frequently. If a fixed carpet gets wet, it can take ages to dry out and this can cause rot and mould underneath if left too long. If you must have rugs down in the kitchen, make sure that you can clean and dry them easily, and don’t put them down near the kitchen sink. Don’t put them near the oven, either, as loose rugs can cause trips and falls, which are potentially more dangerous if boiling water and hot elements are involved.
4. Cover food that’s kept in the refrigerator, especially pungent stuff like cut onions and the more interesting types of cheese. If you don’t want to use lots of clingfilm (which isn’t the most environmentally friendly option), use airtight containers, or even invert one bowl over another. Reuse old yoghurt, margarine and ice cream containers for this purpose, but don’t hoard too many of these containers (an all-too-common trap).
5. Keep an uncovered saucer of baking soda inside the refrigerator. This will absorb other stray odours not kept away by Tip 4. Replace the baking soda periodically. Also clean your fridge with baking soda for extra smell-eliminating power.
6. Compost food scraps of all types rather than putting it in the rubbish bin. Not only does this cut down on waste, but if you empty the compost collection bin daily (a 4-litre ice cream tub or a retired salad bowl is a good size), the food scraps won’t start breaking down and stinking.
7. Clean lingering scraps out of wooden chopping boards by applying a paste of salt to the surface and scrubbing it hard. Rinse out with warm or even boiling water (the latter kills bacteria trapped in the wood).
8. Wipe the inside of bread bins or wooden cupboards (or any other wooden food storage device) with a little vinegar. Place a sprig of rosemary or a few bay leaves inside once you have dried the container out to deter ants and silverfish.
9. Clean out the rubbish bin frequently, as even if you compost, the odd nasty will creep in and start stinking. Scrub out any bin, metal or plastic, with warm soapy water, and sprinkle baking soda down the bottom to absorb the worst.
10. Don’t keep cat litter trays in the kitchen. Not only does this smell (even with the best kitty litter); it is also very unhygienic. The laundry is a better place, or else the garage. If you have a garden, this is where you cats can “go”. The same applies to feeding cats – do this in the laundry or garage or by the back doorstep rather than in the kitchen.
