If you are a home cook, then along with making delicious food in the kitchen, it is also important to keep the kitchen clean. The kitchen is the main place of the house on which the health of the whole house depends. Usually food is cooked here for all the members of the house. And women spend half of their time in the kitchen. Cleaning and maintenance of household items is necessary in the kitchen. Bacteria and germs are found the most in the kitchen. Food is cooked in the kitchen and the food that is left after eating is stored in the fridge for use. The food that has to be used is kept in the refrigerator and it is necessary to clean the refrigerator daily. Not only cooked food is kept in the kitchen, but the leftover raw material is also kept, which needs to be cleaned and arranged from time to time.
Organizing the kitchen
If you have organized your kitchen properly. Then you do not need to search for things here and there in the kitchen. You can easily find all the kitchen items. To organize the kitchen in a better way, first of all clean the kitchen cabinets, shelves and drawers etc. and arrange them by filling them with the stuff. You will know what items are in the kitchen cabinets and shelves etc. Keep the food items, cookware and utensils in different cabinets after cleaning them and keep the spice containers down so that it is easy to take them out.
Prevention of disease
To avoid disease, along with nutritious food, it is also important that it is prepared in a completely clean manner and the kitchen in which this food is prepared should also be clean. There are most bacteria in the kitchen which are the cause of diseases. To prevent them, cleaning the kitchen daily is necessary.
Following are some tips for kitchen cleaning which you can follow daily-
1. Cleaning of hands
Cleaning of hands is most important. Hands are the biggest carriers of germs and bacteria. They reach from one place to another through hands. Therefore, it is important to wash hands before and after cooking.
2. Washing raw vegetables and fruits
When vegetables and fruits come in contact with your hands, they come in contact with many dirty particles, dirt and pollution. Therefore, it is important to wash them thoroughly before cutting or eating them.
3. Cleaning the sink
Clean the sink thoroughly once a day by pouring disinfectant cleaning liquid and once a month open the drain pipe and clean the garbage stuck in it.
4. Cleaning of boxes
All the boxes in the kitchen should be cleaned every month and in the rainy season, all the boxes should be opened and checked whether any of them is loose due to moisture.
5. Mop the floor
Clean the kitchen floor regularly because this is the place where bacteria grow, so first sweep the dirt with a broom and then mop with disinfectant.
6. Mop the spills immediately
types of vegetable waste, chopped vegetables, flour, spices, salt, water and oil drops etc. lying on the kitchen counter and floor must be cleaned immediately, otherwise they do not dry and get cleaned and flies sit on them.
