Foods like milk turn relatively quickly, and keeping your fridge clean and organized will help you keep track of food stores so you can use them before they spoil. Kitchens are all about food storage and preparation, and having an effective and consistent food maintenance strategy is a good idea. If you get into the habit of cleaning regularly, you'll save a few steps and keep your frustration meter out of the red zone. Having to drag a rag around your countertop appliances, the mail basket and the bread box twice a day for a hurried cleaning could pile up a lot more minutes by week's end. One good countertop cleaning - you know, the kind where you take everything off the counter and do the job right - may take 10 minutes. Hasty cleaning probably takes more time in the long run, too. If you're plagued by sticky countertop residue, raise your hand. If this sounds familiar, you'll probably acknowledge that cleaning when you're tired or in a hurry isn't good cleaning. While you're cursing whoever left the sponge full of pasta sauce, you're thinking of ways to cut a few seconds from dinner prep so you can get off your aching feet. In order to get a meal together, you'll have to clean out the kitchen first. This morning's dishes are on the counter where you plan to chop onions, and the sink is full of salad debris that never made it into the disposal.
We want to root out dirty or neglectful kitchen habits that can make you sick, cost you money and time, or send a negative message to your kids. A few crumbs in front of the toaster are nothing to get obsessive about. We aren't advocating a frontal assault on all things disorganized, jumbled or in need of a friendly wipe-down.
We have 10 reasons you should take an hour a week, or less than 10 minutes a day to keep your kitchen tidy. It's also politically and socially correct. If you aren't worried about the biology, think economy instead.
Keeping your kitchen (and other parts of your home) clean is important for a number of reasons we'll get to in a second. Is it a big deal? Will that rivulet of grease developing on your range hood topple your careful plans to create a comfortable, safe home for your family? Well, yes. The trash is overflowing, the garbage disposal smells like the inside of a dirty sock and the sponges lining your sink are so full of bacteria that any second they may stand up and start crawling away.
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