To want clean kitchen worktops?!

[nearlyuptheduff]

Maybe I am being a bit anal....

I prepare food on the worktops in the kitchen and am so fussy about having them clean. I have 2 cats and they sometimes manage to get in ad sunbathe on the kitchen worktops... urgh.

All I ask of DH is that he wipes the worktops before he starts preparing food and after her prepares food. He just will not do it....

Anyone else have the same worktop anal-ness or DH issue?

I would stop the cats getting on the worksurfaces.

My dh will not spray any cleaner before he wipes (only ever after washing up). Drives me loopy, hes wiping all the washing up water over the worktops.

Use chopping boards instead.

just decontaminating my kitchen now. won't cook in it unless it is very clean.

I would use chopping boards and keep the cats out of the kitchen

I always use a chopping board.

I just wipe the sides with the washing up cloth

I rarely use sprays TBH.

You are not being anal, but the way to get clean worktops is not to let the cats get on them.

So how exactly do you stop cats climbing on worktops?

Am genuinely curious, my cat seems to think worktops are a novel kind of food bowl when I'm preparing food on them.

lunchbox try zapping them with a plant sprayer, most cats don't like it and they should get the idea........

I do use chopping boards because I have real wood worktops. Still need to wipe down the worktops before preparing food though.... even on a chopping board!?

The cats get kept out of the kitchen all day as they can't open tha hall door to get to the kitchen door. Sometimes (and I mean very occasionally) they get into the kitchen if I don't shut the door properly. It's unavoidable! I do not have a minging "cat lady house" !!!

I used to have 3 cats who always got on the work tops & even peed on them a couple of times - it was revolting. However, I did discover that tea tree oil ( you can either sprinkle it on neat or dilute it in a spray bottle) deterred them & it is also a natural antispetci

Urgh I feel your pain OP,we have cats and a house layout which means they absolutely cannot be kept out of the kitchen. So I wipe, and antibac and wipe and antibac over and over again. DH? Will do it if asked specifically but doesn't see the need or ever think of it himself.

Drives me lite.

Keep the cats out of the kitchen

Yuk! I hate seeing cats on work tops. I grew up with cats and not once, not ever
, did one walk on the worktops.

I grew up in a house with cats too, and none of them ever went on any table or worksurface. Ever.

How does being - ummmm - driven, shall we say, about kitchen cleanliness sit with having disgusting skanking animals all over the worktops?

We grew up with a few cats lounging about the place occasionally. If they thought they fancied a quick shimmy along the worktops they got unceremoniously swept off and dumped on the floor.

You always get the very thick cat who immediately tries it again but after they've been dropped on their arse a few times they do usually get the idea.

sigh, I would love my DH to do a basic kitchen hygiene course, because he never listens to me! He is a great cook......but.....the MESS!!!

Another vote here for (1) using chopping boards and (2) keeping the cats off the worktops. Hello small water gun?

lunchbox "So how exactly do you stop cats climbing on worktops?

Am genuinely curious, my cat seems to think worktops are a novel kind of food bowl when I'm preparing food on them."

Though training as you would anything else! Pick them up off the counter / hiss at them / spray with water (a small water gun or plant sprayer, nothing that has much power behind it).

Keep doing it consistently and they will get the message!

Cats are interesting, in our house they never went on the kitchen work tops or got up on chairs and sofas. Moved into a new house and they were straight up on the worktops and sofas! They didn't associate that a sofa was a sofa no matter where it was.

Like Sarcalogos the layout of our house means our cats can't be kept out of the kitchen. During the day if I see one of them on the worktops they get swept off quick smart but during the night the little beggers lay where they please. Having the Aga on doesn't help 'cos they love to lay almost on top of it.

I just use tons of antibac spray and hope that DH does too (even though I know he doesn't)

Will try using the kids mini water pistols, hadn't thought of that.

I've had my cat 6 months and he does seem to be getting the message about worktops. He sleeps in the kitchen at night though so I'm sure he gets up when no one's there.

One word. 'Waterpistol'. That is by far the best way to train cats. We had one in each room when we had Mister G.