Cooking is one of our favorite hobbies, we love going into the kitchen and creating tasty meals and treats fro our loved ones. What we don’t love, however, is the trail of destruction that we leave behind. How come there’s so much mess?
In the past, life was so much easier. There were servants and kitchen staff who took care of all the preparation, cooking and cleaning up. How great would that be now? No cleaning and tidying afterward, just enjoying the meal and not having to worry about the rest.
Even if you couldn’t afford the luxury of servants, you were probably so poor that your diet was very limited, thus leaving very little tidying up to do afterwards.
Those energy saving devices that we all have in our kitchens; mixers, blenders etc add to this problem even more. These all need to be carefully cleaned too as well as all the pots and pans that are stacked by the sink.
The nearest most of us have to servants these days is a cleaner once or twice a week, and a war zone kitchen isn’t really in her job description! So we still stress about how we can continue cooking, but without the mess.
Cooking is one of my great passions in life, tidying up after myself is not. I’ve tried various things to lessen this chore; most of them didn’t work, I’m happy to report that this one did.
This is a very simple principle, much advocated by those in the catering trade. You wash as you go, as you finish with each pot, pan, appliances etc, wash it straight away. Keep your work tops tidy as you too and when you leave the kitchen, you know it’s in a fit state for anyone to enter.
So in future, no more stacking up dirty dishes and leaving them until the end. Facing a pile of dirty pots and pans can be soul destroying, so make life easy for yourself and clean as you go. Now when you’ve finished whatever you have made, you can sit down and relax, not be stuck at the kitchen sink for a good hour.
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