The great thing about cooking is the experimentation and the praise you receive when you turn out yet another fabulous mean or dessert. What isn’t so great is the mess left behind that you will have to tidy up later.
Surely there must be a way around this? It wasn’t like this is the past, when the wealthy had servants to take care of their every need. So every meal they enjoyed was brought to table and they never had to give a second thought as to how it got there!
The lesser classes didn’t suffer from this problem either as they could afford neither servants nor expensive meals.
Those energy saving devices that we all have in our kitchens; mixers, blenders etc add to this problem even more. These all need to be carefully cleaned too as well as all the pots and pans that are stacked by the sink.
The nearest most of us have to servants these days is a cleaner once or twice a week, and a war zone kitchen isn’t really in her job description! So we still stress about how we can continue cooking, but without the mess.
I’ve tried various things over the years, mostly unsuccessfully. The one I’m going to tell you about now however seems to have made life an awful lot easier, so why not give it a try yourself.
This is a very simple principle, much advocated by those in the catering trade. You wash as you go, as you finish with each pot, pan, appliances etc, wash it straight away. Keep your work tops tidy as you too and when you leave the kitchen, you know it’s in a fit state for anyone to enter.
So know you know that leaving everything until the end is just putting off the inevitable and they will probably be harder to clean by then as whatever is on them will have hardened. Clean each piece as you go and when you finish cooking, there will be no tidying up to do.
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