Why does cooking create such a mess? Seriously, whatever we do and however hard we try, when we have finished creating our masterpiece the kitchen always looks like a bomb has hit it.
This has bugged us for generations, well, since the days of masters and servants ceased to exist. At one time, all our ancestors had to do was sit at the table, have their meals brought to them and then retire. The staff downstairs had to worry about all the tidying up.
If you were at the other end of the social scale and didn’t have servants it wasn’t a problem either as you couldn’t afford to cook elaborate meals so there was little, if anything to clean up.
Next time you finish a session in the kitchen have a look around you. There are dirty plates, pans, utensils and a pile of appliances which were meant to save us time, not add to it!
Kitchen mess is embarrassing; we don’t like others to see how untidy we are. If you are lucky enough to afford servants then it isn’t an issue, but the majority of us can’t, so it is.
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.
Clean as you go is now my kitchen motto. Keep a bowl of hot, soapy water and wash each piece as soon as you’ve used it. Then when you’ve finished, there will only be the last couple of things that you’ve used, so much better than a teetering pile of dirty dishes.
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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