People only tend to keep their kitchen clean for aesthetically purposes
only. But do you know how big role kitchen hygiene plays in food borne
diseases? Lack of kitchen hygiene and food safety causes illness. If you
want to keep a healthy diet, you have to keep your kitchen clean. It is
as simple as that.
Keeping a kitchen clean is not as hard as it looks. It requires a simple plan you have to follow. Say goodbye to casually scrubbing your kitchen cabinets and follow these ten wonderfully easy tips which would make your kitchen spotlessly clean and hygienically perfect.
1. Purchase good quality cleaners and keep them all in one cabinet
We will start from basics. The first thing to do is to purchase good quality cleaning liquids. Keep a separate cabinet for them. This would allow you convenience when you want to clean your kitchen. This may be a small step but you’ll be surprised of how much time and effort it will save you.
2. Separate cutting boards
Use separate cutting boards for meat, chicken, seafood and all the other raw forms, and use a separate one for ready made foods which are precooked. Try to use wooden cutting board as compared to cutting board – although that depends entirely on the quality of the board.
3. Pay particular attention to canned food and boxes’ lids
Make sure that you wash the lids of the boxes that contain food. They have grooves and that allows the dirt to stick around.
4. Keep kitchen cleaning cloths sanitized
It’s not very often that people sanitize the kitchen cleaning cloths. They should be washed with extreme care. If you observe closely, sponges and kitchen towels are often the dirtiest things in any kitchen. One should also look to replace them with new cloths after sometime.
5. Try to air-dry dishes and spoons
This one’s a bit hard. People mostly use towels and cleaning clothes for dishes and spoons, but the ideal way is to blow dry them. But if you are not able to air-dry them, make sure that the cloth/towel you are using is exceptionally clean.
6. Clean blenders and grinders thoroughly
It would be ideal if you can open the blenders and grinders apart and wash them thoroughly. Leave them out to dry before putting them back again.
7. Use sealed containers for storing edibles
Use sealed containers for food even when you are putting it in refrigerator. This probably is the most basic step which everyone knows and yet it is very often ignored.
We will start from basics. The first thing to do is to purchase good quality cleaning liquids. Keep a separate cabinet for them. This would allow you convenience when you want to clean your kitchen. This may be a small step but you’ll be surprised of how much time and effort it will save you.
2. Separate cutting boards
Use separate cutting boards for meat, chicken, seafood and all the other raw forms, and use a separate one for ready made foods which are precooked. Try to use wooden cutting board as compared to cutting board – although that depends entirely on the quality of the board.
3. Pay particular attention to canned food and boxes’ lids
Make sure that you wash the lids of the boxes that contain food. They have grooves and that allows the dirt to stick around.
4. Keep kitchen cleaning cloths sanitized
It’s not very often that people sanitize the kitchen cleaning cloths. They should be washed with extreme care. If you observe closely, sponges and kitchen towels are often the dirtiest things in any kitchen. One should also look to replace them with new cloths after sometime.
5. Try to air-dry dishes and spoons
This one’s a bit hard. People mostly use towels and cleaning clothes for dishes and spoons, but the ideal way is to blow dry them. But if you are not able to air-dry them, make sure that the cloth/towel you are using is exceptionally clean.
6. Clean blenders and grinders thoroughly
It would be ideal if you can open the blenders and grinders apart and wash them thoroughly. Leave them out to dry before putting them back again.
7. Use sealed containers for storing edibles
Use sealed containers for food even when you are putting it in refrigerator. This probably is the most basic step which everyone knows and yet it is very often ignored.
8. Use gloves
Use gloves when you are preparing food that needs handling. And make sure that you use separate gloves for cleaning and washing from when you are cooking and baking.
Use gloves when you are preparing food that needs handling. And make sure that you use separate gloves for cleaning and washing from when you are cooking and baking.
9. Stove gets greasy clean it with care
Cleaning the sticky greasy stove is probably the hardest thing to do in a kitchen. Nevertheless it is very important.
10. Run vacuum at least once a week
I am sure you run a vacuum in your living room but how often do you do it in kitchen? You sweep the kitchen and scrub the floor but running a vacuum through the kitchen once a week is highly recommended.
Nuur Hasan is a website developer and a part time blogger. Kitchen remodeling is one of his hobbies.
Cleaning the sticky greasy stove is probably the hardest thing to do in a kitchen. Nevertheless it is very important.
10. Run vacuum at least once a week
I am sure you run a vacuum in your living room but how often do you do it in kitchen? You sweep the kitchen and scrub the floor but running a vacuum through the kitchen once a week is highly recommended.
Nuur Hasan is a website developer and a part time blogger. Kitchen remodeling is one of his hobbies.
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