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
62. Then wash the shelves, drawers, and other removable parts of your fridge and freezer as if they’re dishes. Photo by Jason Schmidt. Courtesy of Martha Stewart Living. Copyright © 1998.
Hot water and soap ftw. You should also wipe down the inside parts of your fridge and freezer that don’t come out. Get the full fridge-cleaning tutorial at Martha Stewart . If your fridge still smells funny even after washing it thoroughly, try leaving some activated charcoal inside of it for a few days. (It absorbs odors much better than baking soda does.)
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 
