How to clean your kitchen

Introduction

How to clean the kitchen? Where to start? Because if you don't have the technique and if you use unsuitable products, certainly what has been cleaned will have to be cleaned again! Discover all the tips to thoroughly clean  the kitchen easily, efficiently and as quickly as possible ...

How clean her kitchen? Where to start ? Because if you don't have the technique and if you use unsuitable products, certainly what has been cleaned will have to be cleaned again! Discover all the tips to thoroughly clean   the kitchen easily, efficiently and as quickly as possible with economical and natural products.

How to clean your kitchen

• To clean your kitchen
• A bucket of water
• A bowl
• Household gloves
• An apron
• A sponge
• 2 microfiber cloths
• A roll of paper towels
• A microfiber broom
• A notebook
• Pen
• A trash bag

Kitchen cleaning products  required

• Citric acid
• Household alcohol
• Baking soda
• Liquid Marseille soap
•  White vinegar
• Soda crystals

To make it easier for you, pour these diluted or undiluted products in bottles fitted with a spray bottle

Clean your kitchen in 15 steps

Step by step cleaning in the kitchen

1 - Inspect cupboards, fridge, and freezer

Sort through the fridge, freezer, and cupboards by throwing out anything that is out of date or in poor condition, or anything you no longer need.

And take advantage of this sorting to write down everything you need: products, sponge, ingredients or provisions.

Machine the greasy stoves.

2 - Clean the top of the cupboards

Pass the barely damp microfiber mop over the top of the cupboards to get rid of the accumulated dust.

Too bad if it falls on the floor or work surface, you will deal with it later.

3 - Clean the walls

If the painted walls are greasy, coat them with a mixture of equal parts baking soda and water.

Leave to act for one hour then rinse and dry.

Or clean the greasy walls with a solution consisting of a liter of hot water and a coffee cup of soda crystals.

Or pass a cloth moistened with household alcohol.

4 - Clean the upper cupboards

On the days of cleaning, about once a month, empty them, to pass over the jars containing pasta or various condiments a microfiber cloth moistened with soapy water.

Dry with a cloth .  

Since it is lacquered furniture, laminate furniture or natural wood, clean the inside and the door of the cupboards with a microfiber cloth dampened with water and a drop of liquid soap, well wrung out.

Wipe with a dry cloth.

If the furniture is greasy, clean it with vinegar water (half water, half white vinegar).

Rinse with clear water then wipe with a microfiber cloth.

5 - Clean the small appliance

Pass over the mixer, the coffee machine, the toaster, a paper towel moistened with household alcohol, without forgetting the electric wires and the sockets.

6 - Clean the fridge

Unplug the fridge, empty it and remove the shelves, bins and lockers that you will wash either in the dishwasher or by hand in soapy water.

Then, hands protected by household gloves, clean the fridge completely, from top to bottom with a sponge wet with warm water and a handful of soda crystals.

Rinse with clear water.

• Wipe with a microfiber cloth. 
• Reconnect the fridge.
• household kitchen
• Quick fridge cleaning
• Obviously if you are in a hurry, exceptionally, it is possible to carry out a   quick cleaning of the  fridge  without unplugging it by passing on the shelves a very clean cloth in micro fibers soaked in white vinegar.

Clean the rubber seal

Pass a sponge soaked in water with a few drops of white vinegar over the joint

7 - Clean credenza and work plan

• Clean and disinfect with citric acid
• Use citric acid to clean up heavily soiled work surfaces and floors.
• Rinse as soon as possible after cleaning.
• To strengthen the disinfecting action of the acid, add a few drops of essential oils to the citric acid: Tea Tree, eucalyptus or lemon.
• Do not touch the wooden worktop
• Use a brush soaked in hot soapy water over the work surface .
• Rinse. Dry as soon as possible.
• Add a little white vinegar to the hot water if the surface is very dirty.
• Clean the tiles
• If the tiles are very dirty, clean them with a cloth dampened with household alcohol.
• Clean granite and marble
• Clean with a sponge soaked in hot water just a drop of liquid soap. Rinse well. Then rub with a cloth to not let appear unsightly streaks.
• Clean stainless steel
• Use a microfiber cloth dampened in soapy water.

Rinse.

If there are traces on the stainless steel, pass sheets of paper towel moistened with a mixture of oil (for salad) and lemon or oil and vinegar.

Polish.

Protect Granite Or Marble From Stains

Stop stains on your marble or granite worktop!

Protect your worktop or your granite or marble floor from even greasy stains with a waterproofing stain repellent, the ProtectGuard CS Kitchen and Bathroom Marble and Granite Waterproofing

8 - Clean dishwasher and washing machine

If the body is white

Restore-his whiteness origin in passing over the body and the door, a cloth soaked with vinegar. Let sit for about twenty minutes. Wash with soapy water. Wipe.

If the body is made of stainless steel

Pass a microfiber cloth soaked in soapy water and added a drop of household alcohol. Rinse. Dry with a microfiber cloth.

Take advantage of this cleaning to clean all the residues inside the machines using a sponge.

9 - Clean the microwave oven

Remove the crumbs, remove the turntable and then clean the oven to microwave with a sponge soaked (and drained) of water and vinegar (white vinegar) without forgetting the door.

Rinse. Dry.

Clean the turntable and its support in soapy water or in the dishwasher.

Dry them and put them back.

Deeper cleaning

Place a bowl containing water with lemon juice in the microwave .

Operate the oven to bring this liquid to a boil. Then pass a dry cloth over the mist that has formed.

10 - Clean the oven

Clean your oven immediately after cooking. The heat melting the dirt will save you time. A simple stroke of a damp sponge will suffice. But before cleaning the interior of the oven, remove the rack or broiler pan; wash it in hot water and washing-up liquid or in the dishwasher.

Clean your oven naturally

Put a sponge soaked in baking soda diluted in water over the walls of the oven .

Clean the greasy walls

Sprinkle the greasy walls with salt, wait a few minutes, then wipe with a damp sponge

Cleaning the glass of an oven

If stains of all kinds stick to the glass of your oven , but you cannot remove them , heat the oven a little so that it is lukewarm, turn it off, then clean with paper towels. all rolled into a ball soaked in household alcohol.

11 - Clean the hob

Gas or electric hotplates

• Clean the stove with a sponge soaked in hot water and soda.
• This solution will overcome  the most recalcitrant tasks . Rinse. Dry.

Electric cooktop

Clean the hobs on the hob

Clean the cooking zones of an electric hob by heating them to a high temperature.
The plate  of  cooking cooled, go paper towels on the burnt dirt. 

Clean rusty fireplaces from a hob

Clean  with an abrasive pad or the finest grit sandpaper.

Or operate the fireplaces until they blush so as to carbonize the dirt.

Then let it cool a little, clean with a paper towel all rolled into a ball.

Then, after the stove has cooled down, finish cleaning with a cloth soaked in table oil. Leave on for at least 12 hours.

• Glass ceramic hob
• Cleaning advice
• On a ceramic hob

Avoid powdered cleaners and abrasive sponges which could scratch the ceramic hob, even bicarbonate which would not be diluted in hot water.

Clean the greasy plate without leaving a trace with a microfiber cloth soaked in barely diluted white vinegar.

12 - Clean the bottom cupboards

Clean these cupboards in the same way as those above, but  checking the condition of the cookware, utensils and small appliances.

13 - Clean the trash

Remove the bag and clean the trash with a sponge soaked in either pure vinegar or with a solution of hot water and soda crystals (1 liter of hot water for a coffee cup of soda crystals)

14 - Clean the floor

Floor tile

If the maintenance of the tiles is carried out using a microfiber mop moistened with lukewarm water and a few drops of liquid soap, when cleaning the kitchen thoroughly, add white vinegar to the soapy water.

Lino

Wash the linoleum  or other plastic floor with a wet microfiber broom (then wrung out) of hot water  with sodium hydroxide crystals .

15 - Wash the sink

Clean it with a soapy sponge and a few drops of white vinegar .

cleaning kitchen finished

Last step !

Put the apron in the washing machine , the sponge, tea towels, rags and household gloves and activate the dishwasher where you will have put the bowl, but also the drip tray or various accessories.