Your kitchen is probably one of the busiest rooms in your house, used for cooking, entertaining, and getting a head start on the day with coffee. As a result, it may also be the messiest room. We understand that maintaining all that cleaning and dusting can take a lot of time, and you might be inclined to put off all those annoying (but important) duties until you feel motivated.
The secret to averting that? locating simple methods for performing culinary tasks more quickly. By moving some cleaning tasks outside, for instance, you can speed up and improve the efficiency of the process as well as avoid damaging your kitchen sink and making bigger, unnecessary messes.
It’s time to turn on the hose and grab your bucket. Here are 10 kitchen objects that, especially in the summer, you can and should clean outside:
1.Grill grate.
Although you might use your grill a lot more in the summer, cleaning them can be a real hassle. In order to have more space, Zeynep Mehmetoglu, owner of the domestic cleaning business Maid Bright, advises cleaning these greasy grates outside with hot water and dish soap. Additionally, she adds, cleaning them inside can damage your kitchen sink.
2. Cookware made of iron
Mehmetoglu claims that if you’re not careful, cast iron cookware can potentially scratch your kitchen sink. You could be better off washing your cast iron outside with a pail of water and your preferred non-abrasive sponge because they also acquire a lot of grease.
3. Wastebaskets
Your trash can should be the one object you take outside to clean with a hose. Mehmetoglu claims that the sun drying things out on a hot day would assist with any lingering odors. “The hose pressure helps clean residue from the bin,” he adds.
4. A vacuum cleaner
When you empty your vacuum cleaner in the future, take it right outside to the trash. Mehtemoglu advises doing this to prevent accidently sweeping dust and debris across the interior floors. While you’re outside, you may also clean the filters, add-ons, and components (and let them dry in the sun).
5. Bake ware
Your oven racks, like grill grates, may quickly gather grease and food that conventional soap and water can’t get rid of. It’s best to go outside whenever you can because there will be plenty of ventilation. “Oven cleaners are extremely potent chemicals and are best used outside,”
6. Big stock pots and serving trays
Summer partying can be a huge mess, and because of their size, those crab or lobster bakes in large pots and platters can be difficult to clean indoors. Mehmetoglu suggests using a hose and dish soap to scrub larger objects clean outside because you run the danger of having more food residue to scrub and scents that will enter your kitchen.
7. Ice buckets and beverage dispensers
If you’re having a party outside, feel free to leave the drink accessories there to clean up after the event.Despite not being oily, these items are too enormous to be cleaned indoors in your kitchen sink.
