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Sunday 12 May 2013
My top ten list to do to de-clutter and organise your kitchen
Cooking is is something I really enjoy doing.The best way to learn the art of cooking is to watch and observe, participate, taste and smell the ingredients.Once you start to enjoy food preparation and tasting the different ingredients, and cooking you need to arrange your kitchen so that its neat and tidy so that all your ingredients and utensils are clean and well organised and easy to source. You can be adventurous and add more and more ingredients, utensils and gadgets to your workspace once you have got your basic workspace organised and in order
In this day and age there are some many gadgets, utensils and ingredients that one can purchase, it is critical to have a clutter free and organised kitchen workspace and larder.This is a must to help your food creativity flow and you to enjoy stress free cooking.
Do you kitchen cupboards look like this??
My top ten list to do to de-clutter and organise your kitchen:
1. De clutter your work tops, if you don't use the gadget regularly store it away in a cupboard until you need to use it.
2. Only have essential gadgets on your work top and store those away from space near hob as this area should be free for cooking on.
3. Invest in good quality cast iron pots and pans that will last you along time. Don't fill up your kitchen with cheap pots and pans that are missing handles or are damaged with teflon coating peeling off. Take a deep breath and throw these away.Its far better to have fewer good quality pots and pan than lots of bad cheap quality ones.
4. Invest in good quality bake ware, throw away bakeware that is, burnt, caked with grease, buckled or rusted.
The perfect choice for everyday baking and cooking is the Pyrex’s superior quality metal bakeware collection. It is made of carbon steel to ensure everything is baked uniformly – enabling home owners to achieve the best results every time. Each product is oven safe up to 230°C and dishwasher friendly, while a non-stick coating covers the inside and the outside of the products, allowing for quick and easy food release and easy cleaning.
I tried the pizza pan which had holes in the base to allow even cooking and large easy grip handles to make taking the hot pan out of the oven easier.The tray gave me delicious crisp pizza base whilst baking the pizza . The collection includes cake, loaf, quiche and flan pans in a choice of sizes, six and 12 cup muffin tray options, and a four bun tray – perfect for Yorkshire puddings. There are also two essential springform loose bottom cake pans and a set of four tartlet pans.
6. Have a wooden block to store your kitchen knives safely.
7. Have a separate chopping board for fruit and veg, bread and meat.Throw away any very old worn wooden or plastic boards as bacteria can breed in them.
8. Allocate a cupboard for your spice storage, opened bags of spices loose their aroma and freshness very quickly, once opened store in air tight containers and use them by the use by date.
To keep my ingredients fresh I have used these wonderful silicon lidded Tricon space saving canisters that are easy to stack and as they are see through you can see the ingredients in them at a glance.The
lids double up as a cup-size measuring tool for contents. They keep all
the ingredients dry and fresh
9. Invest in a good, some measuring cups,measuring spoons and some good air tight storage containers.
I recently added the 4-in-1 measuring spoon, which efficiently combines all "spoon keys" into one simple body and is a space-saving, quick-cleaning solution to your cooking and baking adventures.
In addition the set
of four mug shaped measuring cups are useful as they stack together to give the
appearance of a drinking mug when not in use and is perfect for measuring all
sorts of ingredients. The sizes of the cups are one cup, half cup, third cup
and quarter cup and can be popped into the dishwasher for a super-easy clean
up.
Both measuring spoon and measuring cups are durable, space saving and the cups are stackable taking very little room in my kitchen drawer.
All these three items are available from Umbra
10. Store pasta, rice and flours in air tight containers and make sure you use all your ingredients by the use by date.
These larger quantities of ingredients require a bigger
container and these lovely Pop
containers by OXO are perfect for the job. The OXO Good Grips POP
Containers are airtight, stackable and space-efficient, making it easy to keep
your dry foods fresh and your kitchen organised. The Containers have a unique
push-button mechanism that creates an airtight seal with just one touch. The
button also serves as a handle to lift off the lid. The Containers are designed
for modular stacking so that you can efficiently organise your counter top and
pantry. In addition, with their square and rectangular shapes, the POP
Containers make the most of any storage space, while their corners allow for
easy pouring. The POP Containers are available in 12 different sizes to
meet your dry food storage needs
Thankyou to Umbra for sending me the measuring
spoon and cups and the Tricon storage canisters. Also many thanks to Pyrex for sending the lovely
pizza tray and OXO for the wonderful storage POP containers. My kitchen is now well equipped and organised so that all the ingredients are easily accessable
All the views in this post are my own.All these products can be purchased on line through the relevant web sites.
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Wow.. Well arranged Kitchen Nayna..:)
ReplyDeletebeautifully arranged kitchen
ReplyDeletevery neat Nayna...
ReplyDeleteI love those Tricon canisters - shame they're so expensive though, definitely out of my cashstrapped budget. Annoyingly they are $25 for US residents but UK residents pay £29 on Amazon currently :(
ReplyDeleteI am such a kitchen hoarder, I hate to get rid of anything in case I need it, must try harder!
Very ture that in order to enjoy cooking, we need a neat organised and efficient kitchen. A very useful post..
ReplyDeleteSome handy tips there, thank you. Mine are all ready for a good sort out.
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