A kitchen is not just a place to prepare your meals; it’s a center of maintaining the hygiene of your house. A good and healthy kitchen directly contributes to the good health of the whole family. How you maintain your kitchen thus directly affects the whole house in many ways. Let’s look at some tips for maintaining your kitchen.
Maintain cleanliness
A good kitchen firstly is a clean kitchen. While you work for hours on putting up that perfect meal for your family, you need to make sure that it is made in a healthy condition. The presence of perishable organic materials in the kitchen makes it an easy
breeding ground for several harmful microorganism and bacteria. So it’s absolutely essential that your kitchen is clean. Use a good disinfectant for wiping the floors and slabs. Also ensure that there is a good place for disposing off the wastes from your kitchen. Indoor bins for the kitchen should be emptied fully within a day.
Preventing infestation of insects and rodents
A kitchen can attract a variety of insects because of the presence of food items in the stores and cabinets. Thus food items have to be kept in containers and places where insects can’t enter easily. Besides these if the neighborhood has reported problems of rodents, preventative measures to ensure the non-entry of
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rodents should also be put into practice. Pre-installing cabinets with strong materials that can’t be easily broken by rodents would be a good investment.
Maintaining its functionality
Keep chemicals and vulnerable items out of the reach of children.
Clean the items that people frequently touch with disinfectants. Such areas include door knobs, handles, electricity switches, sink taps, etc.
It would be advisable for people working in the kitchen to wash their hands at regular intervals.
Put most of the wastes from your kitchen outside it. Even for some waste inside the kitchen, ensure that there is a proper lid in the bin.
Ensure that items near the stove or electrical equipments aren’t vulnerable to fire.
Conclusion
Maintaining a kitchen well ensures a healthy family. The most important thing is that you need to be careful before the construction of the kitchen so that maintaining it becomes easier in the future.
With frequent exposure to oil and steams, the switches and electrical fittings in a kitchen are much more susceptible to damages that other parts of the house. Besides the regular cleaning, special maintenance near the sink area, which is vulnerable to backsplash and special cleaning around the cooking places, may also be needed. The use of glazed tiles for instance may help in maintaining the places where there is frequent backsplash. The stoves and plumbing also need to be regularly monitored, and checked if they are vulnerable to damages. After all, prevention is better than cure.
Some handy tips
The use of induction stove and microwave oven saves you money on gas, and it’s easier to maintain as well.
