Healthy Kitchen

Enjoying the comforts of your cozy and newly-cleaned kitchen

We all love spending time in the kitchen. It’s a great place to entertain family and friends, enjoy cooking, and relishing food. The hearty goodness that makes every New Hampshire residence a home starts in the kitchen – the abode of comfort eats and cooking aromas, great and enjoyable conversation, and that clean cozy atmosphere no other room in the house can equal.

Are you sure Your Kitchen is absolutely clean?

Making sure your kitchen is clean isn’t as easy as it looks. Sure, your countertops look sparkling clean and all the crumbs have been cleaned off the table. Your sink is empty and dry, and the dishwasher does not have any dirty dishes and silverware in it. You may not realize it but there some spots and areas you may have missed out on.

Regular cleaning and maintenance will do – but NOT enough

Making sure your kitchen is sanitized and disinfected is essential to make it safe for your family and when preparing meals, especially in these areas:

Stove and microwave
Your kitchen stove will see a lot of everyday use, and more so if you’re entertaining friends and family over the weekend. Food scraps and crumbs, sauce or soup spillage and grease can easily escape notice. The Maids of New Hampshire, a professional maid cleaning service that serves the Greater Manchester Area, suggests checking in the spaces between your stove and countertop. That’s where a lot of the food crumbs and cooking grease collect. If this residue is not cleaned out, it can build up without you noticing. This build-up will eventually allow bacteria and germs to multiply. Also, areas and corners around the burners of your stove and around the stove knobs may hide dirt, grime, and residue.

Because your microwave ovens are used in everyday meals and cooking, cleaning away the sauce drippings, grease stains and crumbs that stick to the insides of your oven will require care and a steady hand. Remember that microwave ovens are not as tough as stoves so be careful when cleaning as you might break it.

Refrigerator
Dust and debris build-up in and behind the refrigerator vent will make it more difficult to operate on full capacity, working less and less efficiently as time goes on. However, doing a DIY cleaning on your refrigerator is not recommended, especially if you’re not familiar with your appliance’s working parts. Professional maid services in New Hampshire, like The Maids, are technically trained and equipped to thoroughly clean your refrigerator.

Kitchen floors
Kitchen floors can be kept clean easily with regular sweeping and mopping. But for a more thorough clean, you need to use the correct cleaning method. This will depend on the type of kitchen floor you have because each floor type requires different cleaning solutions to ensure they are properly sanitized and cleaned. Regular cleaning can keep dirt and germs at bay, but be sure to get your kitchen floors thoroughly cleaned every now and then.

A clean kitchen is a healthy kitchen

To ensure your kitchen is ready for your family time and meals, be sure to have it thoroughly cleaned and sanitized. Remember that a clean kitchen is a healthy kitchen and that it may be best to get professional maid service that can ensure a high quality clean and finish. If your schedule won’t allow you to, and making a thorough clean is just too much stress, a professional maid service can do the dirty jobs around the kitchen – so you don’t have to!

To find out more about professional maid cleaning service from The Maids of New Hampshire, visit our website at www.maidsnh.com.

About the Author

This article is by The Maids of New Hampshire, a professional maid cleaning service, serving the Greater Seacoast of New Hampshire, Southern Maine, and the Greater Newburyport Area of Massachusetts since 1989, and the Greater Manchester Area beginning in 2009.

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