Follow our ingenious tips on how to clean up your kitchen after baking all day!

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There are multiple phases that come with baking. There’s the initial phase where you are preparing all the ingredients, checking the cookbook to make sure you haven’t forgotten anything, and so on. Then the preparation phase where you’re mixing the different ingredients and creating the prime layers for your baked goods. Then comes the baking, the eating and of course, the part that everyone dreads, the cleaning.

Cleaning shouldn’t be a torment for you, especially after you’ve worked all day baking those delicious treats. Fortunately, there are some tips you could use. They won’t make you get rid of all the work with a snap of your fingers but next time you’re baking sour dough bread or even a big four layer cake, you won’t have to be sour about the dishes.

Prepare Ahead of time and let Trays Soak

If you were going to attempt and take a baking tray head-on in a fight, please reconsider because you will lose. Instead, try to prepare a hot water “bath” for the tray. Let it soak in this water and detergent mixture and see how easily it will be to clean off the baking remains afterwards. It’s infinitely more humane for you to deal with the trays and tins used for baking this way. If you drain becomes clogged letting down all the gunk of your trays, consider some of our drain maintenance tips.

Take Care of your Oven and do Period Checkups

It is unavoidable but once in a while you will have to clean your large appliances like your oven. Over time, a lot of dirt and grease will be formed on the oven walls and this will evidently have a very bad reflection and reaction with your food. Unless you plan on never baking again you will need to clean the oven for the sake of your future dishes. The good news is that you don’t have to soak your hands in detergent for this one. To eliminate odors, simply use water and baking soda in a combination to rub the oven walls real good. After a while you can wash them with fresh water.

Cleaning Surfaces

One of the worst parts about cleaning the kitchen is that detergent smell that makes you choose between a dirty kitchen and one that smells of chemicals and anything other but food, to be honest. Making sure spills and crumbs are regularly cleaned helps prevent pest infestations. Well, you don’t really have to make that choice. Instead, you can use vinegar to clean your kitchen surfaces. This is great for your family’s health and it’s also super effective in terms of actual cleaning. You can count on vinegar not just to not chemically poison you but also to remove even those insistent spots that are very hard to clean. You can find other prevention tips on Waltham’s website.