How to Make Your Kitchen Smart

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By rakhib, eHow Member

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Make Your Kitchen Smart

Kitchen is an important part of the house.Breakfast,dinner,tea times and snacking and then cleaning all take up a major part of your day.While meal preparation and cleaning cannot be done away with,we can certainly take a few steps to make our kitchen a smart and an efficient one.This will reduce the time you spend in the kitchen and the loads of cleaning after wards. After all who wouldn't like to save some time for some TV,some chat and fun .A few tips.

Difficulty: Easy

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A few changes

Step 1

Put a small calendar in the kitchen somewhere where you can plan a meal a day before.Example:On a Thursday night mark your Friday with a B,L and D(breakfast,lunch and dinner)Now You can use similar codes for meals like SW for sandwiches and PC for pancakes.Believe it or not,this will save 20 to 30% of the time wasted in the discussion and deliberation done before cooking and then searching the ingredients for it.Also you may date your shopping trips for groceries and the items that you need to replenish.This way you will never run out of anything
Step 2

Before you start cooking,pull out a large bowl on the counter.Onion skin,potato peels,chilly tops and other discarded waste can be placed in the bowl.When you are done with cooking,you can empty the bowl once in the trash can.This will save you the 20 to 30 wasteful trips to the trash can.
Step 3

Mount your kitchen scissors on the wall where you can reach it instead of drawers.Needless to say they come in so handy in the kitchen,you need them to open packets,cut chillies,cilantro and what not.
Step 4

Cover your gas stove and burners with aluminum foil.This will save you tons of cleaning supplies,paper towels and time you spend in rubbing off stains.From my own experience,I never had to worry about cleaning the gas and burners.They look like new each time I change the foil.I have already written an article about how to protect your gas stove from stains with video demo.See Resources section of the article.
Step 5

If you have your fridge placed right next to your gas stove,the food splatter will inevitably spoil the side facing the stove.Cover the side with a glazed poster(I use Walmart $1 posters).They just need a wet wipe and you are done.Never replaced them before 6 months and spares me all the mess.(Well,This one is a star wars poster my husband has put up...you might want a different one:))
Step 6

Do you waste time resealing those Ziploc and bread bags after use.Often they get stuck.Well,keep bread clips handy.I use them for clipping bread and Ziploc.Saves time in squeezing the air out and resealing.Easy to open and place back.