Simple Ways To Maintain Your Kitchen After A Deep Clean

Maintaining your kitchen is much easier than repeatedly tackling a deep clean. Deep cleans take a lot of time and effort, but simple daily habits can reduce how often you need to do them. Here are easy ways to maintain your kitchen after a deep clean.

Kitchen cleaning is a part of a daily maintenance strategy to keep your home clean, this about adding one or two tasks to reduce the frequency of deep cleans.

Daily and weekly habits can change the way you approach deep cleans in the future. Breaking your deep-clean schedule into small, manageable tasks can reduce the need for a massive kitchen overhaul. If your house feels messy then you can apply these principles to your whole home.

Maintaining your kitchen helps keep it clean, functional, and stress-free. Consistent, simple habits make it easy to keep your kitchen clean without feeling overwhelmed.

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Maintain Your Kitchen After A Deep Clean

If you’ve just finished a deep clean of your kitchen, you know it was a massive, time-consuming task. Did you know that if you spend time weekly at least tackling tasks you won’t ever need to do a marathon deep clean of your kitchen again!

Once you’ve finished a deep clean, the goal isn’t to keep everything perfect, it’s just to stop the mess and grime building back up again.

Start And End Your Day With A Reset

There are things that you can do in the morning and in the evening that can have such a positive impact on your kitchen.

Check out these ideas:

• Never go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink
• Set your dishwasher to work over night so everything is clean in the morning
• Empty your dishwasher first thing so you can refill it as you go through the day
• Clean counter tops before bed so it’s fresh in the morning

Creating a morning and evening routine for your kitchen that takes 10 minutes is going to help maintain a space that is clean and welcoming each and every morning.

Simple tasks like wiping down your countertops helps to maintain food-safe surfaces, especially in busy family kitchens.

A great example of how you can apply this to other areas of your home is discussed in Spring cleaning without making it a bid deal.

Organizing Your Storage For Easy Access

Gone is the idea of triangles when organizing your kitchen. It’s more about zones and keeping things together.

• Group frequently used items in easy-to-reach zones
• Keep counter clear, less is more
• Label shelves and containers for uniformity and creating homes, this is the label maker I have!

If you don’t have a pantry you are going to need to store your food in the kitchen.

If you are a planner then check out the planner’s guide to decluttering, it’s a great read.

Create A Trash And Recycling Zone

Prevent kitchen chaos by creating a trash and recycling zone, however, you still need to keep this empty and clean.

Have places where you can store items that need recycling, and consider having a small counter top bin to ensure it gets emptied frequently. Having these near prep areas mean that you are able to keep prep areas neat and tidy even whilst working.

Empty your trash and recycling once it reaches a certain level. If your household doesn’t create much waste, you don’t need to do it daily, just before bins overflow.

Keep Your Kitchen Cleaning Supplies Handy

Create a mini cleaning caddy for your kitchen cleaning supplies. This will make it easier to keep your kitchen clean if you have the supplies you need on hand.

Create a system that ensures you never run out of a cleaning product. If you remove the last of the product make sure to add it to your shopping list or see if you can create a subscribe and save for the product.

What to have in your kitchen cleaning caddy:

• Multi-surface cleaner
• Oven cleaner
• Cleaning cloths
• Cleaning paste
• Crevice brushes
• Compostable wipes
• New compostable sponges

Try to tackle clean ups of spills immediately to prevent the situation getting worse or staining. If you are struggling with finding the right tools you need then, the top 5 must-have cleaning tools for a spotless house is going to be your next read.

Deep Clean Maintenance Tasks

You have to break down those big cleaning tasks into smaller tasks that can fit into your weekly cleaning sessions. You can rotate these so you don’t focus on one cleaning task and forget the rest.

Examples of tasks to rotate:

• Cleaning the front of cabinets including handles
• Rotate pantry items to ensure things don’t go out of date
• Cleaning fridge, check out this article about how to make your fridge last longer.
• Oven cleaning, break this down further with oven shelves, doors and stove
• Dishwasher cleaning, always follow manufacturers recommendations for cleaning. Check out my review for Fairy Platinum Plus dishwasher tablets
• Wall and baseboard cleaning
• Inside cupboard and drawer cleaning – don’t do all at once break these down too
• Washing machine cleaning – Check out how to clean your washing machine with the pink stuff.

Manage Paper And Junk Clutter Left In The Kitchen

For some reason the kitchen counters attract random items that don’t belong in the kitchen. You don’t want to make a home for them, because that will mean they need to stay. But you can keep a ‘to sort’ basket that acts like a catch all and make sorting it part of your morning or evening routine.

Keeping your counters clutter-free is going to make it easier to keep clean, the less you have cluttering the counters the less you have to move when cleaning anything.

Make Maintenance Fun And Visual

The most important tip is simple, if other people live there they too will be responsible for helping not just in the kitchen but around the whole house too.

Make it fun, you can all do a quick clean up after your evening meal and see who can do their tasks first.

Use a colourful digital checklists to help everyone see what needs to be completed and when. It’s important to reward everybody when they are doing a task consistently, yes, that also means you get a reward too.

Maintaining Your Kitchen Is About Progress, Not Perfection

Spending a few minutes each day maintaining your kitchen will save you time in the long-run as you won’t need to do deep cleans which can take hours.

Start small, pick one or two habits to add into your current kitchen cleaning and when you have mastered them and they feel natural to do them add more.

These habits make it easier to maintain your kitchen after a deep clean without starting from scratch.

What does your kitchen cleaning schedule look like?

Need more resources for cleaning, check out these articles below:

• How to deep clean your kitchen cleaning tools
• Ultimate guide to sanitizing your kitchen cleaning tools
• Fairy platinum plus review: the best dishwasher capsules for tough stains
• The top 5 must-have cleaning tools for a spotless house