The great thing about cooking is the experimentation and the praise you receive when you turn out yet another fabulous mean or dessert. What isn't so great is the mess left behind that you will have to tidy up later.
This has bugged us for generations, well, since the days of masters and servants ceased to exist. At one time, all our ancestors had to do was sit at the table, have their meals brought to them and then retire. The staff downstairs had to worry about all the tidying up.
Even if you couldn't afford the luxury of servants, you were probably so poor that your diet was very limited, thus leaving very little tidying up to do afterwards.
The thing is, with today's so called time saving gadgets, there seems to be more mess than ever. As well as utensils we have used, there are also a stack of appliances such as blenders that need to be cleaned out.
The nearest most of us have to servants these days is a cleaner once or twice a week, and a war zone kitchen isn't really in her job description! So we still stress about how we can continue cooking, but without the mess.
So we still search for that magic something that will enable us to turn out lavish gastronomic creations without any of the mess. As, sadly, it simply doesn't exist, here's something you can try instead.
Clean as you go is now my kitchen motto. Keep a bowl of hot, soapy water and wash each piece as soon as you've used it. Then when you've finished, there will only be the last couple of things that you've used, so much better than a teetering pile of dirty dishes.
So know you know that leaving everything until the end is just putting off the inevitable and they will probably be harder to clean by then as whatever is on them will have hardened. Clean each piece as you go and when you finish cooking, there will be no tidying up to do.
This has bugged us for generations, well, since the days of masters and servants ceased to exist. At one time, all our ancestors had to do was sit at the table, have their meals brought to them and then retire. The staff downstairs had to worry about all the tidying up.
Even if you couldn't afford the luxury of servants, you were probably so poor that your diet was very limited, thus leaving very little tidying up to do afterwards.
The thing is, with today's so called time saving gadgets, there seems to be more mess than ever. As well as utensils we have used, there are also a stack of appliances such as blenders that need to be cleaned out.
The nearest most of us have to servants these days is a cleaner once or twice a week, and a war zone kitchen isn't really in her job description! So we still stress about how we can continue cooking, but without the mess.
So we still search for that magic something that will enable us to turn out lavish gastronomic creations without any of the mess. As, sadly, it simply doesn't exist, here's something you can try instead.
Clean as you go is now my kitchen motto. Keep a bowl of hot, soapy water and wash each piece as soon as you've used it. Then when you've finished, there will only be the last couple of things that you've used, so much better than a teetering pile of dirty dishes.
So know you know that leaving everything until the end is just putting off the inevitable and they will probably be harder to clean by then as whatever is on them will have hardened. Clean each piece as you go and when you finish cooking, there will be no tidying up to do.
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