Be honest with me here, when you wipe down your stove top (please tell me you wipe down your stove top), do you ever pick up the burner grates and wipe carefully under them? I have moved into too many apartments where that appeared to never have happened.

I leave my clothes on the floor more often than I’d like to admit, and have created piles of old magazines that would threaten small children, but having a clean kitchen is pretty important. It is much easier and more pleasant to cook in a clean kitchen.

Every once in a while, while you’re picking up after dinner, take the grates, stick them in the dishwasher (if you have one, or in a bucket or sink of hot water and soap to marinate a bit), and scrub a little around the burners.

You can also take the knobs off the stove and wash those separately and give the panel that they live on a good de-greasing.

Not all the time! Just sometimes.

unfuckyourhabitat:

Take five minutes and wipe it down and de-scuzz it. Take an extra two minutes and Windex the front of your oven and the part of the drawer that always collects grime.

BONUS CHALLENGE: De-grease your vent hood. Vinegar works well for this, as does a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. (Mr. Clean should pay me for endorsing those things. They really are fucking magic.)