At this year's talk show conference, Peking University Talented Girl Bird compared the kitchen to hell because there are knives, fires, and oil pans there, and the two are the same configuration. Birds can’t cook, and she laughed at herself as if she was going to hell every time she went to the kitchen.
So, when you mention tidying up the kitchen, do you feel the same as me? I'm afraid there is no area in the house that is more complex and diverse than the kitchen, and it has many functions to carry: cleaning, cutting, cooking, storing ingredients, etc., which is simply a world of water and fire.
In our lives, have you ever encountered such a scene:
. Various pots and pans are piled up like mountains and there is no place to settle down. Cutting vegetables, stir-frying and serving vegetables have become things to survive in the cracks. It feels like no matter how big the kitchen is, it is not enough.
. The countertops are messy, the cabinets are messy, and all kinds of seasonings are very frustrating to find. He accidentally broke one, and sometimes shot himself in the foot. No matter how good the mood is, it is polished out by making a meal.
. The walls of the cabinet are greasy everywhere, and they are oily every time they touch. But it's really oil smoke that stuffs everything.
For everyone who loves life, the kitchen is a harbor that can shelter from the wind. Here, anxiety will be released, depression will be cured, and expectations will be satisfied. However, the menu, shopping, preparing, cooking, sorting, and cleaning are decided, and the messy and unbearable after-dinner scene, the curse of "what to eat every day" tightly traps you. How can there be any calm and peaceful days?
So how should we solve the problem of small, messy and oil in the kitchen by sorting and storage, how to say goodbye to trivialities and create a simple and efficient kitchen space?
Kitchen organization lies in two major principles: easy to cook and easy to clean. Based on these two principles, I will share with you how to organize an efficient kitchen from three aspects.
1 Reasonable layout so that your kitchen is no longer "small"
(1) Re-combing the cooking dynamic line
Usually cook a meal, how many ways do we have to go?
. Do you first take out the ingredients from the refrigerator or the ingredient basket and clean it in the sink area. Then cut or season. After all the ingredients are pre-processed, you will enter the most important cooking stage. The delicious food is served, and finally the dishes are served.
What should be the most efficient kitchen layout? Think about the places you use the most: gas stove, refrigerator, and sink.
Therefore, you should try to shorten the distance between these three when you feel not crowded. Arrange the gas stove, refrigerator and sink in a triangular way will give you a lot of less walking while cooking. Put the most commonly used kitchen utensils within the range of this triangle so you can easily get them and cook faster.
(2) The three golden areas should be left blank
Through the above content, we sorted out the dynamic lines of kitchen cooking: refrigerator/index basket-sink area-preparation area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area-stove area.
So, in order to make our operation more convenient, it is recommended to leave blank space on the countertops on the left and right sinks, and put the ingredients to be washed and washed ingredients or tableware. The specific width should be no less than 30cm.
The countertop between the sink and smoke stove is also recommended to leave blank space to meet the needs of cutting vegetables, cutting vegetables, and pre-treatment of ingredients. Generally, the size of the dish preparation area is between 60cm and 120cm, which is very comfortable.
In addition, after cooking, we need to leave room for dishes. Generally, this place is around the stove area. A vegetable area of no less than 30cm should also be reserved next to the cooking area.
Therefore, in order to make the entire cooking process smooth and efficient, the countertops on both sides of the sink area, the countertops on the cooking area between the sink and the smoke stove, and the countertops next to the stove area. These three golden countertop areas must be kept blank, and do not pile up pots, pans, or various debris.
2 Do a good job of storage of items so that your kitchen will no longer be "chaotic"
- Similar centralized, and store
dry goods, rice, grain, condiments, pots and pans, and there are many types of items in the kitchen. If you do not distinguish it, it is easy to grab sesame mung beans in one hand, which is time-consuming and troublesome to find things.
Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. When organizing the kitchen, you might as well put items of the same type and nature into one place and store them in a centralized manner. For example, various beans such as: red bean , mung beans, millet , coix seed and other grains. Put them in the same cabinet . In this way, if you need to use grains, you will know that you should open the cabinet door as soon as possible.
After all the items are classified, what you need to consider is how to partition reasonably, that is, how to arrange the most appropriate storage location for them.
The first principle is: light at the top and heavy at the bottom, and store nearby. Put heavy objects down the cabinet and light objects on the cabinet. In addition, it is stored nearby according to the use scenario and the function of the item. For example, cleaning and washing and cutting supplies are centrally stored near the sink area; food, cutting tools, etc. are centrally stored near the vegetable preparation area; condiments, pots and pans are centrally stored near the cooking area.
The second principle is, frequency of use is preferred. Place items that are used frequently in the most convenient and comfortable position, while items that are used with low frequency can be placed in a relatively hidden position.
. Unify the container and reduce interference
If you have seen the mixed phenomenon of wrapping ingredients in a cabinet with red, white and black plastics, will you suddenly feel that life is really messy? How to reverse this phenomenon by
? The answer is to unify containers and reduce interference. That is, we can use containers of the same nature, color and appearance to store items of the same category, so that we can abandon messy and look neat and orderly.
For example, we can choose to store it in a unified transparent sealed jar or use transparent food sealed bags to store it. As long as we are unified, visual interference will be reduced, and our mood to take items will become refreshing and simple.
. Use tags ingeniously and find convenient
The last point to emphasize is to use tags ingeniously. The power of words cannot be ignored. Among all the logo forms, words are the easiest to be recognized and remembered compared to colors, shapes, graphics, etc. As long as a small "text tag" is attached to a fixed position, it will have a strong psychological hint to people, making them obediently use items and objects according to the content of the tag.
determines the storage location of the item and attaches a text label on the surface of the container, which is like establishing a stable ownership relationship between people, objects, and containers. This small detail is very reassuring. You always know where the items are and how much inventory is.
3 Tips for lazy people to remove oil in the kitchen
The hardest hit areas of kitchen oil in the kitchen are range hood and gas stove. Oil stains and charred residues of food are easily the food of cockroaches. Baking soda water has become the nemesis of oil pollution. Cleaning the range hood and gas stove with baking soda can effectively prevent food poisoning caused by cockroaches .
The specific method is: prepare a large bucket, put two layers of plastic bags, add 80-degree hot water, baking soda (1 liter of hot water and 3 to 4 tablespoons of baking soda) and kitchen neutral detergent, put the removed range hood ventilation fan , and put the gas stove bracket into the bucket to soak, let it stand for more than 1 hour, and then wash it with detergent and sponge brush. This soaking action can be performed once a month.
In order to avoid the more and more dirt, cleaning is becoming more and more troublesome. The key is to develop the habit of cleaning it in time after using the stove every time. After using the stove, wipe it with a wet rag while it still has residual heat (but it won’t burn), which can usually remove dirt. Including the LCD surface of the range hood , as well as the walls and countertops near the stove, they should also be cleaned in time.
The oil stains and burn marks that are not wiped off need to be removed as soon as possible. For oil stains, you can wipe them with soda water and . The mild burn marks can be removed with an old toothbrush dipped in baking soda paste. Cleaning up while the dirt has not yet accumulated is the key to doing housework easily.
Also pay attention to the oil stains on the kitchen floor. The oil stains can easily overflow to the ground when cooking. They must be cleaned in time so that they will not slip and cause danger, and can also suppress cockroaches.
Family naturally sits together to eat, which is the happiness that only family members have. We can accompany each other for three meals a day and witness our respective growth and maturity. The important place that carries all this is our kitchen space.
Today we try to use some objective rules and logic to create an efficient and simple kitchen space, say goodbye to trivialities, and hope that every day we accompany each other will be warm.
This is the 8th question in the series of special topics [108 questions for sorting and storage]. I hope today's sharing will be useful to you.
