Which of the following do you "obsess" about in your kitchen?

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

Kitchens are arguably the heart of the home and often where you'll spend the majority of your time when at home, but we want to know, what is your number one kitchen 'obsession'? (Please choose one)

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Baking

Cooking from scratch

Avoiding food waste

Making coffee or tea

Planning weekly meals

Tidying things away

Decluttering the counters

Washing dishes

Replacing hand towels

Concealing the brushes and cleaning items

Disinfecting counters

Recycling

Composting

Other (let us know below!)

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Kate Burt

4 years ago

I'd like to vote for a few of these! No. 1 obsession though is cleaning the floor, with a toddler who likes to throw her meals around and a dog (who doesn't do his job of eating up the scraps!) I probably sweep and clean the floor 3-4 times a day, especially as it's the main socialising room in the house, where everyone hangs out.

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Emmanuelle
4 years ago
Definitely cooking from scratch ... but also trying to buy local products, eat less meat etc...
Also trying to use only natural cleaning products;
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Chris Goodchild
4 years ago
Kate Burt, I agree. Tea and coffee are important but so are decluttering counters, washing dishes and recycling. I also have a thing about blunt kitchen knives so there is always a sharpening kit close by when I'm cooking.
cassandrascott24
4 years ago
Ticking just one??? But I did... though 'cooking meals from scratch' is my thing too!
Tracey McDougall
4 years ago
Yes very difficult to pick one. Whilst I have my old kitchen I would say recycling. I am guessing after new kitchen it will be decluttering and putting away!
ash4711
4 years ago
It has to be making tea first, my 'fix' before I get started on the others on the list, but baking and cooking from scratch i enjoy too, but it has to be tea for No. 1
Dee at the Carlton
4 years ago
I do not ‘obsess’ about anything but a number of things make using the space much nicer - we always cook from scratch so when we modernised our kitchen 5 years ago, I was able to design the modest space in to a very workable kitchen with plenty of storage space (cupboards scribed up to the ceiling to avoid dusty tops of cupboards), long lines of worktops for food prep & lots of cupboards to keep things off the surfaces. I had additional shelves cut at Homebase to make storage easier in the large cupboards (I have lots of china & glass). I removed the door between the utility and the kitchen so the space flows & the utility sink is deep enough to take all the large oven trays. I also decided on eye level ovens with a view to the future when I might not want to be bending over a hot oven at floor level.

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jim beggs
4 years ago
Most of the above at some time or other, but the one exception is 'always clean up the worktop(s) and wash all dishes before going to bed each night - what a pleasure preparing breakfast is in the morning
teenytinyhouse
4 years ago
I drive my partner nuts with the hand towels. We have two, teatowel and hand towel (thin and cotton, and fluffy, obviously). I swap them out every couple of days, which he says is excessive, lol. But: I am eco about it. Before they get shoved in the wash I use them to wipe up spills and stuff on the counters (I then use a clean microfibre cloth and ecover to spray it and wipe if necessary, but I don't worry about water spray or a tea spill). I think it's a more eco approach than gong through masses and masses of kitchen roll. Maybe that's just me.

and yes, the microfibre cloths also get washed frequently!
Jeanette Jones
4 years ago
I agree totally. 1 hand towel and 1 tea towel. They have to be the same colour. I use them when finished to shine up my onyx work tops ! I love E cloths too All washed frequently.
Picasso
3 years ago
Dee, eye level ovens are definitely great and by accident mine is near the breakfast bar which is in the middle of the kitchen and juts out from the wall, so when I open the oven, I have a surface to the left so it's easy to transfer dishes to it. Now I've watched friends beginning to struggle with bending down, I am about to move my fridge so that it's eye level too. I'm sourcing strong brackets at the moment.
Jeanette Jones
3 years ago
I couldn’t be without eye level. I have 2 ovens and warming drawer ( I’m showing off ) our last home though. Fantastic x
Jeanette Jones
3 years ago
I also have all my cups mugs etc in a drawer under the kettle . I don’t have to stretch up to get them,much easier. Also have a big 3 sectioned bin drawer under the island. Nice x

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