Does your kitchen always look clean and how often do you clean your kitchen?

[phoenixflower]

Is your kitchen always clean? I go into some of my friends houses and their kitchen ( and house) is always spotless. I do clean my kitchen everyday but chances are if you turned up at my house, the kitchen would look a right mess and I haven't got round to it yet.

If you are one of those people whos kitchen always looks like a showhome, how do you do it?

Thanks

No its not, but if people come round its pretty spotless. I clean it every day.

I've just been through the "dish full of -crap-- things no-one knows what to do with," like hair bands, paper clips, old batteries, blunt pencils, screws etc..

Mine is usually tidy and clean once a week - after the cleaner goes. It is tidy with surfaces wiped once a day - after breakfast in the hols, after supper in school time.

I am in it all the time - cook on average 2.8 meals a day and have small children (3 & 5). I am Not Naturally Tidy and work really hard to keep on top of the clutter, but am own worst enemy!

Yes, my kitchen is always pretty clean. I blitz it regularly, and clean surfaces/hob/sink/floors daily.

My pet hates are mugstrees, fruit bowls full of old fruit (eg grapes pucked at instead of cut with scissors, liver spotted bananas) and huge bottles of fizzy drinks lined up.

Warm and flat then.

Nice....

ooo I am going to take away some of these tips. I have been out for an hour. DH has very helpfully cooked dinner for everyone, but there is mess EVERYWHERE. Will he clean ANY of it? No, because he "Doesn't do cleaning" His reason is because he goes out to work all day so it is not his problem. Lovely. Thanks :(

I am jelous of all these clean kitchens though and want to go and clean mine!

During the week, kitchen looks reasonable. Each morning, I unload the dishwasher after breakfast, and do any hand washing up such as plastic items, vases etc, wipe down all surfaces, including hob, scrub dog bowls and placemats that they stand on, dry any dishes that have been washed and hang up clean tea towels, and spot clean the floor. Also clean sink, and bleach it about twice a week (horrible white plastic). Hoover every other day, and mop thoroughly once or twice a week (more in winter when dog paws are muddy).

Husband responsible for cleaning windows (i can't reach!)and he does most of cooking on weekend - he's pretty good at loading/unloading dishwasher but not so at cleaning hob/surfaces so Monday is usually when kitchen is deep cleaned. I would be pretty relaxed if anyone visited/popped in unless I was actually in the middle of cooking as then it looks like a bombsite, but usually we clean as we go when cooking. Agre it is much easier when you have a dishwasher, and have utility room where items can be hidden/stored when necessary.

Our kitchen is always clean and tidy except when in the throws of cooking.

Dishes, sink and work surfaces get washed/wiped down after every meal, then the floor gets swept, hob gets a wipe over, dishes get put away.

Hoover every every evening after dinner when I do the living room/dining room. Empty bin if needed.

We have very little storage in a very small kitchen so I do have more stuff on the sides than I'd like but we are workin around that. Tea/coffee/sugar jars on a shelf above the kettle and toaster, pasta and rice in jars on a shelf above that, utensils on a bar fixed to the wall over the hob.

Been trying to find microwave brackets to get the microwave off the work surface and give us more room but not having much luck finding any?? Also a spice rack that will hold all of our spices but can't find one big enough so they are all lined up neatly on the side at the moment.

Yes I clean mine every day, can't stand clutter or food stuff left out when it can easily be put away. Everything has a place! Also mop the floor twice a week as can't stand a dirty floor. I'm probably a bit OCD but I have a friend who has the most disgusting kitchen in the world and when I get fed up of cleaning mine I just thank goodness it's not like hers.

do clean my daily but its at its cleanes in the school day when 2 teenage ds are at school

Lifeas, you can get metl shelf things for spices which you screw onto the back of your cupboard doors. Think I got mine from Homebase.

My kitchen's not bad - not disgusting I don't think, gets wiped and cleared daily. What lets it down is the floor - it's uneven slate, takes about an hour to clean the whole thing and leaves me with back-ache for a week.

I hate having clutter on the sides. I cannot wait to get a new kitchen - the one we moved into is old and shabby - I keep it as clean as I can but I want clean lines and clutter free surfaces. We just don't have the storage. I keep reorganising in the hope of finding a hidden cupboard or something but no luck.

I vacuum and mop every day - clean the sides as well. Only thing I am slack at is the cooker - this is because it is ancient and rather like polishing a turd.

Clean yes, tidy, no!
Too much stuff, not enough storage.
I call it a working kitchen.
I do clean it every night after dinner/before bed.

"dish full of -crap-- things no-one knows what to do with," like hair bands, paper clips, old batteries, blunt pencils, screws etc.."

I have one of those dishes as well! :)

cat - we have one large wheely bin for all the recycling (bot food though) so that it outside the back door and all recycling goes straight into that. I keep all letters in the utility area of the kitchen - but I like to deal with them all, file/shred/recycle/stick on fridge on the day that they arrive.

All that other stuff -phone chargers, broken things - I don't allow them in the kitchen otherwise the room would be full of them. If you want to charge a phone do it in you do it in your bedroom.

Bucking the trend, I think mine is tidy but not clean! I hate clutter on the worktops etc but find it impossible to keep greasy splatters from cooking under control. Anyone recommends industrial grease-melter to help me out? Apparently Cillit bang is used to de-grease nuclear reactors but my supermarket doesn't stock it :(

Damn you all and your tidy kitchens, I was enjoying a few rare moments of rest and now I have to go and sort out my kitchen.
I have great admiration for your no clutter stance - I can't see how that works on a day to day basis. I have 4dcs at different stages of education and a daily tide of stuff that comes into the kitchen each day.
I have just about managed to keep the hall table a clutter free zone but of course it just shifts to the kitchen bench.

I don't rate Cillit Bang myself.
I like a few germs so my family can build up resistance.

No but it is usually ok.

Washing up and sides wiped morning and evening, sometimes after lunch if I'm trying to keep it clean. Table wiped after every meal

There is often a pile of recycling waiting to go out to the box, and the drainer is rarely empty. Sometimes the sink is a bit tea stained (but clean). Oven and hob were filthy when I moved in so don't really get spotless even after cleaning.

Our hob shows up all marks on it, so I feel like I'm constantly wiping it. My Mums tip was to choose kitchen tiles and worktops which 'hide' any marks (ditto the carpet).

Tip for the hob - I cover it with foil before cooking a big meal that way the hob stays clean....

The vision of all your shiny white units is sending me scuttling into my non-shiny kitchen to clean it. Thanks (I think!).