Cleaning the kitchen may seem a daunting task. Get quick tips for time-saving cleanup on your most-used kitchen tools. The best timesaving tips, techniques, and to-do lists for polishing off the kitchen.
Back 1 - 1. Choose Baking Soda Over The Conventional Cleaner! 2 - 2. Clean The Grates Of Your Stove Burners With Ammonia! 3 - 3. Make Your Stainless Steel Sink Shine! 4 - 4. Eco-Friendly Kitchen Sink Cleaner! 5 - 5. Lemon And Vinegar – The Ultimate Kitchen Cleaning Hack! 6 - 6. Clean Your Microwave With Water And Lemon! 7 - 7. Clean Your Toaster – The Easy Way! 8 - 8. Quick Blender Cleaning Hack 9 - 9. Clean Your Toaster With Some Cream Of Tartar And Water! 10 - 10. Clean Your Dirty Pans With Dryer Sheet! 11 - 11. Clean Your Wooden Cutting Boards With Lemon And Salt! 12 - 12. The Liquid Bar Keepers Friend Works Like Magic! 13 - 13. Clean Your Microwave In 5 Minutes With Lemon Oil And Vinegar! 14 - 14. Clean Your Crockpot With Oven And Grill Cleaner 15 - 15. The Ultimate Copper Pots Cleaner! 16 - 16. Clean Your Oven With Baking Soda! 17 - 17. Clean The Greasy Stove Hood With Baking Soda! 18 - 18. Fight Oil With Oil! 19 - 19. Hydrogen Peroxide And Baking Soda For Super Clean Stove Burners! 20 - 20. Vacuum Your Refrigerator Coils! 21 - 21. Remove The Grease From Your Kitchen Cabinet Doors! 22 - 22. Useful Tips On How To Keep Your Kitchen Clean 23 - 23. The Wonders Of Heinz Cleaning Vinegar! 24 - 24. Tips For Hand-Washing The Dishes! 25 - 25. It’s Spring Cleaning Time! 26 - 26. Clean Your Oven With Baking Soda, Water And Peroxide! 27 - 27. Clean Your Stainless Steel Appliances With Dish Soap And White Vinegar 28 - 28. Use Aluminum Foil As Glassware Scrubber 29 - 29. Clean Your Glass Cooktop With Baking Soda And A Hot Towel! 30 - 30. Use Bleach To Whiten Your Cutting Boards! 31 - 31. Save Time And Trouble With These Genius Kitchen Cleaning Shortcuts! 32 - 32. Remove Coffee Stains From Your Cups With Baking Soda! 33 - 33. Clean Your Crockpot With Fume-Free Easy Off! 34 - 34. Remove Hard Water Stains With Vinegar! 35 - 35. Make Your Cookie Sheets Sparkle With Peroxide And Baking Powder 36 - 36. Deodorize Your Wooden Cutting Boards Naturally! 37 - 37. The Easy Way To Clean Your Appliances! 38 - 38. Easy Trick To Trick Between The Oven Glass! 39 - 39. Bring Your Old Cooking Sheets Back To Life! 40 - 40. Non-Stick Grill Trick! 41 - 41. Cleaned Your Burnt Pot With Vinegar! 42 - 42. Soak the filter for your vent hood in hot water and Borax to make it shine again. 43 - 43. Scrub the burnt bottoms of your pans with Bar Keeper’s Friend to make them look new. 44 - 44. Shine up greasy grates on your stove by soaking them overnight with a little ammonia. 45 - 45. Coat the inside of your oven with a mixture of baking soda, water, and dish soap, then let it sit for at least 15 minutes. 46 - 46. Then give your oven racks a bath in dish soap, dryer sheets (yup!), and hot water. 47 - 47. And if you really hate cleaning your oven, consider buying an oven liner or keeping an old baking sheet on a rack at the lowest setting. 48 - 48. Combat sticky kitchen dust by wiping it with cooking oil or mineral oil. 49 - 49. Then use a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda to scrub away stubborn stains on your cooktop. 50 - 50. Use a lemon and kosher salt to scrub your wooden cutting boards and butcher blocks. 51 - 51. If you have curtains in your kitchen, toss them in the washer. 52 - 52. While you’re at it, toss in any dirty kitchen towels and rugs, too. 53 - 53. If you have blinds, use this tongs hack to get them clean in a jiffy. 54 - 54. Then clean your windows with your favorite glass cleaner. 55 - 55. Wash any dishes that are in your sink (or load them in the dishwasher and run it), then dry them and put them away. 56 - 56. Clean the calcium buildup off of your faucet by tying a plastic bag full of a de-scaler around it. 57 - 57. If you have a garbage disposal, clean it out with an old toothbrush, making sure to get underneath the splash guard. 58 - 58. Wash your sink out like a dish (using hot water and dish soap), then polish it with flour. 59 - 59. Then run ice and lemon rinds through the disposal to freshen it up and sharpen the blades. 60 - 60. Go through your fridge, freezer, pantry, and wherever else you store food and toss anything that’s expired or, um, moldy. 61 - 61. If there’s produce you’re unsure about, here’s how long it all will keep, plus where you should store it. 62 - 62. Then wash the shelves, drawers, and other removable parts of your fridge and freezer as if they’re dishes. 63 - 63. Then store everything in your fridge according to which areas in your fridge are the coldest. 64 - 64. And consider grouping pantry foods in easy-grab bins. 65 - 65. Dust and wipe down the top of your counters and fridge, then lay down paper grocery bags to catch dust in the future. 66 - 66. If you have a stainless steel fridge or other appliances, polish them with Pledge. 67 - 67. Clean your countertops and backsplash with a cleaner that works for whatever materials are in your kitchen. 68 - 68. Make cleaning your wooden cabinets (and other wood in your kitchen) easy with Murphy’s Oil Soap. 69 - 69. Then consider lining your drawers and cabinets with non-adhesive liners to make them easy to clean in the future. 70 - 70. Now (finally), sweep and mop your floors. 71 - YAY! You’re done! You deserve cookies. Next
61. If there’s produce you’re unsure about, here’s how long it all will keep, plus where you should store it. Photographs by David Bertozzi / BuzzFeed. Design by Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
See the entire chart, which also includes info for vegetables, herbs, meat, fish, eggs, bread, and dairy, here .
Back 1 - 1. Choose Baking Soda Over The Conventional Cleaner! 2 - 2. Clean The Grates Of Your Stove Burners With Ammonia! 3 - 3. Make Your Stainless Steel Sink Shine! 4 - 4. Eco-Friendly Kitchen Sink Cleaner! 5 - 5. Lemon And Vinegar – The Ultimate Kitchen Cleaning Hack! 6 - 6. Clean Your Microwave With Water And Lemon! 7 - 7. Clean Your Toaster – The Easy Way! 8 - 8. Quick Blender Cleaning Hack 9 - 9. Clean Your Toaster With Some Cream Of Tartar And Water! 10 - 10. Clean Your Dirty Pans With Dryer Sheet! 11 - 11. Clean Your Wooden Cutting Boards With Lemon And Salt! 12 - 12. The Liquid Bar Keepers Friend Works Like Magic! 13 - 13. Clean Your Microwave In 5 Minutes With Lemon Oil And Vinegar! 14 - 14. Clean Your Crockpot With Oven And Grill Cleaner 15 - 15. The Ultimate Copper Pots Cleaner! 16 - 16. Clean Your Oven With Baking Soda! 17 - 17. Clean The Greasy Stove Hood With Baking Soda! 18 - 18. Fight Oil With Oil! 19 - 19. Hydrogen Peroxide And Baking Soda For Super Clean Stove Burners! 20 - 20. Vacuum Your Refrigerator Coils! 21 - 21. Remove The Grease From Your Kitchen Cabinet Doors! 22 - 22. Useful Tips On How To Keep Your Kitchen Clean 23 - 23. The Wonders Of Heinz Cleaning Vinegar! 24 - 24. Tips For Hand-Washing The Dishes! 25 - 25. It’s Spring Cleaning Time! 26 - 26. Clean Your Oven With Baking Soda, Water And Peroxide! 27 - 27. Clean Your Stainless Steel Appliances With Dish Soap And White Vinegar 28 - 28. Use Aluminum Foil As Glassware Scrubber 29 - 29. Clean Your Glass Cooktop With Baking Soda And A Hot Towel! 30 - 30. Use Bleach To Whiten Your Cutting Boards! 31 - 31. Save Time And Trouble With These Genius Kitchen Cleaning Shortcuts! 32 - 32. Remove Coffee Stains From Your Cups With Baking Soda! 33 - 33. Clean Your Crockpot With Fume-Free Easy Off! 34 - 34. Remove Hard Water Stains With Vinegar! 35 - 35. Make Your Cookie Sheets Sparkle With Peroxide And Baking Powder 36 - 36. Deodorize Your Wooden Cutting Boards Naturally! 37 - 37. The Easy Way To Clean Your Appliances! 38 - 38. Easy Trick To Trick Between The Oven Glass! 39 - 39. Bring Your Old Cooking Sheets Back To Life! 40 - 40. Non-Stick Grill Trick! 41 - 41. Cleaned Your Burnt Pot With Vinegar! 42 - 42. Soak the filter for your vent hood in hot water and Borax to make it shine again. 43 - 43. Scrub the burnt bottoms of your pans with Bar Keeper’s Friend to make them look new. 44 - 44. Shine up greasy grates on your stove by soaking them overnight with a little ammonia. 45 - 45. Coat the inside of your oven with a mixture of baking soda, water, and dish soap, then let it sit for at least 15 minutes. 46 - 46. Then give your oven racks a bath in dish soap, dryer sheets (yup!), and hot water. 47 - 47. And if you really hate cleaning your oven, consider buying an oven liner or keeping an old baking sheet on a rack at the lowest setting. 48 - 48. Combat sticky kitchen dust by wiping it with cooking oil or mineral oil. 49 - 49. Then use a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda to scrub away stubborn stains on your cooktop. 50 - 50. Use a lemon and kosher salt to scrub your wooden cutting boards and butcher blocks. 51 - 51. If you have curtains in your kitchen, toss them in the washer. 52 - 52. While you’re at it, toss in any dirty kitchen towels and rugs, too. 53 - 53. If you have blinds, use this tongs hack to get them clean in a jiffy. 54 - 54. Then clean your windows with your favorite glass cleaner. 55 - 55. Wash any dishes that are in your sink (or load them in the dishwasher and run it), then dry them and put them away. 56 - 56. Clean the calcium buildup off of your faucet by tying a plastic bag full of a de-scaler around it. 57 - 57. If you have a garbage disposal, clean it out with an old toothbrush, making sure to get underneath the splash guard. 58 - 58. Wash your sink out like a dish (using hot water and dish soap), then polish it with flour. 59 - 59. Then run ice and lemon rinds through the disposal to freshen it up and sharpen the blades. 60 - 60. Go through your fridge, freezer, pantry, and wherever else you store food and toss anything that’s expired or, um, moldy. 61 - 61. If there’s produce you’re unsure about, here’s how long it all will keep, plus where you should store it. 62 - 62. Then wash the shelves, drawers, and other removable parts of your fridge and freezer as if they’re dishes. 63 - 63. Then store everything in your fridge according to which areas in your fridge are the coldest. 64 - 64. And consider grouping pantry foods in easy-grab bins. 65 - 65. Dust and wipe down the top of your counters and fridge, then lay down paper grocery bags to catch dust in the future. 66 - 66. If you have a stainless steel fridge or other appliances, polish them with Pledge. 67 - 67. Clean your countertops and backsplash with a cleaner that works for whatever materials are in your kitchen. 68 - 68. Make cleaning your wooden cabinets (and other wood in your kitchen) easy with Murphy’s Oil Soap. 69 - 69. Then consider lining your drawers and cabinets with non-adhesive liners to make them easy to clean in the future. 70 - 70. Now (finally), sweep and mop your floors. 71 - YAY! You’re done! You deserve cookies. Next 
