Organising and managing a Kitchen is not only a fun, but also saves time, money and avoids waste and stress. You feel your kitchen is always chaotic? It is very difficult to have a perfect kitchen. Organising your entire kitchen at once is not possible. If you have a kid, try to maintain your kitchen kid-friendly. Following few general guidelines will help you control chaos in your kitchen:-
- Any small appliance or tool which serves only one purpose is definitely unnecessary consumption of your kitchen's valuable space. Find out those and dispose.
- Prepare list of items you rarely, daily use and items yo use only for festivals or special occasions. If you have not used any items in a year, dispose them.
- Store your spice items together. If not possible, to easily locate the items, follow 'Color Coding Technique' depending upon the cateogory. Use Storage Containers with different color caps for different purposes to quickly and easily get even when you are busy in cooking & require the item urgently.
- There are some kitchen items which you often use.
- Avoid multiple of things which you use for same purpose. For example, multiple knives or cutters will create clutter and chaos. Try to avoid multiples.
- Keep items at appropriate place. For example, keep the cooking pans and pots near the stove if you have adequate space in kitchen. If you do not have, keep them at the place where you can quickly reach.
- Most important. Every month or fortnightly, take inventory of items. Check expiration dates of items. This will avoid unnecessary wastage of money and overstock of unecessary items.
- Scan your refridgerator atleast fortnightly, if possible weekly. Check the expiration dates of all items stored in it.
- Have extra storage space by using Cabinets & Drawers. You can even try hanging storage.
- Store/keep/place those items which you often use as reachable as possible. And put rarely used items up high or in the back of your cabinets.
- Make changes in your kitchen periodically and make improvements to simplify your kitchen.
- Have a small white-board in your kitchen. Whenever possible, note down what you grocery items you have to use shortly or what what you have to buy?