Organizing your kitchen is sometimes impossible. Between children or roommates, the stoves that do not pass in the cupboard, the 50 gourdes that are not to anyone, the sauce tasks on the worktop, the 3 meals (to cook) per day ... it's quickly chaos. However, a tidy kitchen immersed immensely on everyday mood - we explain why at the end of the article. So, to help you, Here are 8 pro tips to keep a clean and tidy kitchen!
This article was written by The sorting fairy, organization of the organization and trainer in Home Organing (https://www.feedutri.com)
Tip n ° 1: lighten your cupboards to organize your kitchen well
Do you want to organize your kitchen effectively? Start by making room. We tend to store large amounts of food in our cupboards, sometimes even without realizing it.
Our advice: Take out everything (cupboards, fridge, freezer) and make a menu list with all the foods you already have at home.
What type of product do you have? What can you cook with it? What recipes can you concoct? There is a very fun side in there, do not hesitate to involve the whole family. You will gain space and save money at the same time.
Bonus: Observe and note if there are foods you buy, but you never eat. Sometimes they make you want in the store, but you always end up throwing them away. You can then decide not to buy them anymore, knowing that you will not cook them.
Tip n ° 2: sorting kitchen utensils
We continue to make room: direction the kitchen utensils.
This time, same thing, go out everything, arrange them in front of you and sort. Keep only what really serves you (at least every month). Separate yourself from everything that is broken, useless, unused, not practical for you or for your habits in the kitchen (like the accessory to roast the chicken ...), or what you have double.
We do not keep "in case". Do you have two corks? Keep just one. Do you have three boxes? Give your neighbors for two. You have understood the principle.
Tip n ° 3: Store your kitchen by category
Once you have made room, you can go to storage. Now is the time to roll up your sleeves to organize your kitchen well, in a lasting way (no question of repeating the operation 5 times a year).
The goal is to store everything in a simple and logical way for you, so that you can find yourself there quickly. This is how your organization will last over time.
To do this, bring together each category in your kitchen in your kitchen: a cupboard/a shelf = a category. Here are categories ideas:
- utensils;
- dishes ;
- jars;
- food ;
- household appliances;
- household products;
- etc.
Then you can organize the shelves of the same closet (and therefore of the same category) in subcategories. For example, for your food closet, you can have:
- A shelf for sweet;
- another for salty;
- still another for breakfast;
- etc.
You can create lots of subcategories. For jars, for example: jars for grocery store or bulk products, those to store in the fridge, to make preserves, etc.
Tip n ° 4: Store your kitchen every night to wake up in good energy
Organizing her kitchen well is also to keep her clean and without bazaar - apart from the layout of the shelves. For this, our best tip is the planning for the family, or the roommates.
That's to say ? We invite you to establish a storage/kitchen cleaning schedule. Every evening, the designated person reserve for a few minutes to restore order and a hit in the kitchen.
Of course, every week it changes and it's another member of the home.
Tip n ° 5: Organize your fridge effectively
The storage of the fridge is very fun and makes it possible to make everything visible quickly, to properly keep your food and to facilitate its maintenance.
It's up to you to organize it as well as possible according to your habits and your specificities. For example, you can store dairy products at the top, dishes cooked in the middle and vegetables at the bottom.
You can also divide your shelves by member of the household, it is done a lot in roommates. Maybe you do your shopping separately. Or maybe you have special diets (vegetarian, allergies, baby, etc.)
If you prefer organization per floor, but still want to create separations on each floor, the Color Vis range will be perfect! You can choose a color for jars with meat and another for meatless jars. Or a color for you and another for your partner, etc.
The possibilities are endless.
Tip n ° 6: Organize your kitchen well with baskets
The kitchen is often a buffer area in the house. The bazaar settles quickly. Creating an area with small baskets on behalf of each person in the family can change the situation!
Thus, all the small objects that drag in the kitchen, and which must be dispatched to other rooms of the house, go to these baskets. Once a week, the person in charge of household tasks (tip n ° 4) will drop the baskets in each and each room.
Once the small things are stored, the baskets return to the dedicated kitchen area, and it left for a week.
Tip n ° 7: Practice Family Cooking Batch
Do you know the Batch Cooking? It is an English term that designates cooking in a lot. Concretely, the principle is simple: with your list of menus, you block a niche during the week (often Sunday) to cook all the dishes to come.
This saves you considerable time. And above all, you only really cook once a week. Then you just have to warm up and possibly add the cooler ingredients (raw vegetables, for example).
Your kitchen is then well organized and clean throughout the week. The dream!
Tip n ° 8: The technique of 2 movements to put your kitchen well
Our 8th and last tip for organizing your kitchen is very practical: this is the technique of the two movements.
The idea: Whether everything is just stored and you don't need to make more than two movements to catch or replace dishes/food/etc..
In this case, favoring open shelves is a great idea. You can create pretty spaces with jars of different sizes (always stored by category of course) containing your bulk products.
If you don't have open shelves, it doesn't matter. Use Lazy Suzan in your closed cupboards. These are essentials to have all your round containers on it and rotate them to see and have access to everything, easily.
The advantage of organizing your kitchen well?
What if you wonder why do all of this? We told you in the introduction, having organized cuisine may be more important than you think.
This is important, because cooking is not a place of life that we think immediately, in comparison with the living room, for example. However, with the omnipresence of screens today - and especially TV in the living room - we finally spend more time with family in the kitchen, during meals. It becomes a privileged place to meet.
This is also important because cooking is the place where you eat, where you take care of yourself. A well-tidy and well-clean kitchen has a considerable impact on the well-being of all the members of the home. This makes you want to come together - with his family, his roommates, his friends, etc. - And to share good times.
So, ready to organize your kitchen like pros?