Keeping Your Kitchen Clean?

[culinarian247]

I have to clean everytime I cook. If I didn't my wife wouldn't let me sleep..........

[Pegleg]

When I have chicks over for dinner . . .

When I cook pasta, however, I usually clean while I cook.

[RitaFajita]

I had to choose "other". Pete, you are not alone! Actually, I eat very rarely at home, so most of the dishes are my boyfriend's. He lets them pile up.

When I do clean, I'm a bleach freak. My hands look awful, because I use bleach at work, too. I tend to use too much. I'm paranoid about raw chicken, plus I just love the way bleach smells. Weird, huh?

RF

[phatch]

The silly brutalist fantasy kitchen for cleaning.

A jointless countertop, integral sink. Waterproof and watertight cabinetry. Faucet on a long hose with a pressure booster.

Floor is the open grid rubber mats on an open grid stainless steel support structure with a drain and a powerful disposer below. Spray on the degreaser/sterilizer, let it work, hose it all down the floor drain, run the disposer.

Stove can be completely disassembled, arranged in the self cleaning oven and cleaned that way overnight.

15 minutes to clean at night, 15 minutes to wipe down the ash in the oven and reassemble the stove in the AM.

Wouldn't be pretty, but a cleaning fantasy it is. Nor particulalry envirofriendly.

Phil

[Marzoli]

I clean as I go now--but there was a time. . .
One of the reasons I never liked cooking in the past was that I absolutely hated the dishwashing, counter cleaning, stove wiping.I would leave things dirty because some things are just hard to clean once something dries on them. And, just as I really do not like touching raw meat, I always hated sticking my hands in dishwater with stuff in it. The solution, of course, is to rinse off the "stuff" in the garbage disposal!
Then I read a comment by a chef, either on ChefTalk or in a book, that everything will come off if you soak it long enough.
Now that I have a completely new set of everything, and a nice kitchen, I have made myself clean as I go and make sure all my pots are really clean.
I remember a time when I picked what I cooked based on what I had to dirty up to do it. And it's amazing how I could scrimp on prep items! Naturally, I didn't do a very good job.

All in all, I think I've "cleaned" up my act quite well! So I can honestly say that I clean as I go!

[Kimmie]

I use the same method as Chiffonade! I hate mess and I clean as I go.

As for the fridge, I do it ideally every week, before shopping!

by Culinarian: I have to clean everytime I cook. If I didn't my wife wouldn't let me sleep...

I wouldn't either!!!

[Jock]

I don't clean at all!! Well, that's not strictly true. Actually my wife (who hates to cook) and I (who lives to cook) have this deal - I cook, she cleans. Works out really well. If it's a big-ish project and I need to reuse equipment, I clean as I go. Otherwise, I cook, eat and then relax.

Jock