6 rules for general kitchen cleaning – we’ll get it done as quickly as possible

From time to time it's time to do some deep cleaning in the kitchen. This room has some special features - food is prepared in it, and traces of food and drops of fat often eat into the surfaces. Therefore, many associate cleaning the cooking area with hard, long-term work. We will tell you 6 secrets that will make your kitchen perfectly clean in just 2 hours.

Organization of cleaning

A properly organized workflow is guaranteed to lead to success and save time on rushing from one task to another. You need to clean the kitchen systematically and consistently.

5 useful recommendations:

1. Prepare tools and household chemicals: a bowl of water, rags, sponges, detergents, cleaning products. Make homemade effective cleaning compositions in advance, the recipes for which are given below. Provide and store everything you need in the corner of the kitchen.
2. Clear the work area. It is much easier to turn out all the cabinets and the refrigerator at once than to take out items one by one, wash, fold, then take out again... Just carefully fold the contents onto the oilcloth so that they do not get in the way under your feet. Move kitchen furniture aside if possible to clean the area near the walls.
3. Treat surfaces with stubborn dirt and grease. Apply a chemical or homemade composition to the hood, stove, oven, microwave. Fill the sink and treat the tiles.Bring a kettle of vinegar to a boil to remove limescale. It will take some time for the dirty marks to dissolve (usually 10-30 minutes). At this time, you can do the next thing.
4. Now comes the turn of cleaning the kitchen towels. Soak them in hot water with bleach.
5. The last stage will take approximately 1 hour. You need to go over all surfaces with a cloth and wash off the softened dirt. Start from the top of the kitchen and end at the floor. Now fat and plaque will come off easily. You don’t have to spend hours scrubbing the same place - just change the water often, because everything washes out very quickly.

After a thorough cleaning, all that remains is to return the contents of the drawers to their places. This is very nice - everything in the kitchen is sparkling clean and pleasing to the eye. Cutlery, cereals and spices seem to line up in a beautiful orderly row. Now it's time to learn 6 secret remedies that will help with spring cleaning of the kitchen.

Secrets

Having been visiting, you sometimes wonder how kitchen towels can be so snow-white, without a single spot, and the kitchen can be perfectly clean. It's all about the means that experienced housewives use. Often, using simple available ingredients, a cleaning composition is much more effective than a store-bought one.

So, 6 secrets of cleaning the kitchen:

1. Tiles are easy to clean with a homemade solution. Take half a glass of soda, add 50 ml of hydrogen peroxide and 1 teaspoon of liquid soap. Stir and apply the paste to the tiles for 10 minutes. After the specified time, rinse with warm water.
2. The handles on a gas stove will be as good as new if you arm yourself with a cotton swab, an old toothbrush and ammonia-anise drops. You need to saturate the stick with drops and wipe the dirty places with it.After this, the yellow marks can be easily removed with an old unnecessary brush.
3. Is your kitchen hood yellowed and difficult to clean? A soda-ammonia solution will help. You need to take a large saucepan with water, pour 0.5 cups of baking soda into it and put it on the fire. As soon as the liquid boils, remove the pan and place the dirty filter in it. If after the procedure the plaque has not completely come off, you should make the same solution, but with 0.5 cups of ammonia. Don't forget about the safety rules: open the window wide, put on gloves and a mask!
4. The kettle will shine clean if you boil a vinegar-water solution in it for a while. You need to take 2 parts of water, and 1 part of vinegar.
5. The shelves in the refrigerator can be easily cleaned of dirty stains and marks using a regular kitchen sponge and a solution of baking soda and water.

Perfect cleanliness of things

There is a secret recipe for perfectly clean towels. Take an iron bucket of water and set it to boil. As soon as the water begins to boil, turn off the heat and add the ingredients: 2 tbsp. spoons of any dry bleach, ¾ cup of washing powder and 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil. Next, put dirty, always dry, kitchen towels into the hot solution and leave until cool. Finally, all that remains is to rinse everything thoroughly.

It is not known what has such an effect on towels that even without washing and boiling in cooling water, not a single stain remains on them. The oil solution effectively removes greasy marks, stains from tomato paste, tea, coffee and many others. According to reviews from housewives, when using this recipe, towels wear out even less and last for years!

Here are other effective methods for updating and general cleaning of things:

• If your kitchen towels have mostly greasy stains, mustard will help. Dry powder in the amount of 2 tbsp. spoons should be diluted in 1 liter of boiling water and allowed to brew. Then the solution is filtered and water is added if necessary. Oily towels are soaked in it for 6-8 hours and then washed in the usual way. Towels not only turn white, but are also disinfected. If there is a drawing, then it returns its colorfulness.
• Washed towels - and not only towels, but all yellowed and grayed linen - are washed well by powder mixed with ammonia. You need to add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of ammonia into a soap solution, and even very old things will “look younger.”
• For perfect purity of silk and wool, there is an effective solution. For 10 liters of water add 6 tbsp. spoons of salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of peroxide 3%, and ammonia, 50 g of washing powder. Things are soaked for 5 hours and then washed on a delicate cycle.

Cleaning is a joy - it's not a fantasy!

It would seem that, compared to the last century, cleaning a room today with helpers is not difficult. But no, many housewives complain about the laboriousness of general cleaning.

To make cleaning your kitchen a joy, you need to change your attitude and mindset. By cleaning, a woman not only creates external beauty, but also cleans her home energetically. In a clean house, people quarrel less and are more attentive to each other, and this is a fact!

Practical tips to help you do spring cleaning in the kitchen in a good mood:

• Cleaning is a kind of sacrament. Therefore, there should be no witnesses to her. Get your household members out of the apartment under a plausible pretext, for example, to take a walk in the park or go shopping.Put your thoughts in order and get down to business with a calm soul - creating an atmosphere of cleanliness worthy of the mistress of the house!
• Comfortable clothes. Nothing should distract from the main activity. Wear clothes that do not restrict movement and that you don’t mind getting dirty (definitely not a peignoir or a robe!).
• Musical accompaniment. Try doing general cleaning in the kitchen while listening to rhythmic music. It will lift your spirits, and your hands with rags will dance to the beat.

Perhaps the main mistake housewives make is putting off general kitchen cleaning until later. But this way the work does not disappear, but only doubles. The fat hardens and the stains are eaten away. Therefore, it is better to get down to business without delay, always in a good mood and taking into account the tips and secrets you have read!