Use This Checklist to Deep Clean Your Kitchen.

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One of the hardest things about cleaning is knowing where to start and, once you’ve started, where to go next. When deep cleaning the kitchen, it can be tedious as there is so much to clean and it’s all very important since this is the room where you prepare food and everything. You need a handy checklist to make sure you cover every nook and cranny.

Kitchen Cleaning Tools Checklist

Before you start cleaning, take a moment to make sure you have everything you need. Nothing saps your mojo like having to leave the house to do some shopping. Make sure you have all of the following:

Kitchen Cleaning Checklist

Now it’s time to move on to the various things you actually need to clean. Start at the top and work your way down to clean up all the dirt you knocked onto the floor at the very end. Basically, here’s all you need to take care of:

  • Start by removing the oven racks and placing them in a bath of dish soap and water to clean them. They should soak while you do the rest.

  • Microwave by submerging a quartered lemon in a bowl with a cup of water for three minutes. Since it should stay there for five minutes after this, move on to cleaning the outside with a mixture of one part vinegar and one part water. After five minutes, wipe off the steam from inside the microwave.

  • Let’s move on to the refrigerator. Remove all food items and wipe down the shelves and interior with soapy water, then dry with paper towels or a clean rag. You can also put the refrigerator shelves in the bathtub along with the oven racks if they are very dirty, but this may delay some of your other cleaning efforts since food will be scattered all over the counter while your shelves get wet. Try doing this when you don’t have much food so you don’t have to deal with it, or put food back in the bottom of the refrigerator after you’ve wiped down the shelf-less interior with a mixture of one cup of baking soda and a gallon of water.

  • Clean out your upper kitchen cabinets , removing everything inside. And don’t forget to clean their tops with a sponge and soapy water.

  • Now do the lower kitchen cabinets using the same methods: take everything out and clean the inside with the crevice tool from the OXO brush set, then with soapy water.

  • While all the utensils are on the counter, clean them one by one. There are detailed methods for cleaning everything from toasters to coffee machines , coffee grinders to deep fryers , so do each one before you put it away. Make sure cabinets and appliances are dry before putting anything back.

  • Next, go straight to the stove. Use baking soda to clean burners : slowly add it to a cup of water and stir until it forms a paste that can be coated on the burners. After leaving the racks in the bath, you can scrub the inside of the oven with oven cleaner. After 20 minutes, remove the baking soda paste from the burners with a damp cloth.

  • After you’ve cleaned the appliances in your sink, you’ll need to clean the sink itself . If it’s stainless steel, use an abrasive cleaner like Bar Keepers Friend ($11.17 for a two-pack) and a scrubbing sponge. For everything else, a soft cloth and soapy water will do. (Another extra step you can take is to polish the chrome parts with baby oil to make them look extra shiny.)

  • This is a good time to clean the walls between the cabinets and the backsplash. Dish soap and water will work, as will Magic Eraser, but if you have to deal with cooking grease splatters, try mixing one cup of vinegar, one tablespoon of baking soda and 1/8 teaspoon of soap with three cups of water to create a degreasing spray. and then wipe off the dirt with it.

  • You’ve cleared the countertops of appliances from the cabinet and probably got them dirty with all the dirt from the stove, so it’s time to tackle it now. Remove anything that may be on them, use a crevice tool to get crumbs out of the corners, and then wash them with soap and water or an all-purpose cleaner. If you have granite countertops , be extra careful: use a non-scratch sponge or rag, and soap and water, and nothing else.

  • The floors are already dirty, but that’s no problem: you’re almost done. First, remove the oven racks and refrigerator racks from the bath and dry them thoroughly. Put them back where they belong. Once this is done, use a broom to sweep up any debris and crumbs from the floor and wash it all down with soapy water. Go rest in the other room while it dries.

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