A messy kitchen is a disaster area; not only it is unhealthy, it is also unproductive. Cooking in a messy kitchen is like riding a bike in a swimming pool, lots of resistance, making it almost impossible to go forward.

If the above saying is true then the opposite must also be for a clean kitchen, cooking is easy as pie/cake. Literally, it is much easier to bake a pie or cake when the kitchen is clean. Not to mention it makes you feel good working in the kitchen!

So, what it really boils down to is that when you cook and prepare food in the kitchen, you are actually setting up the stage for cleaning and vice versa when you clean.

Take example, when you finishing cooking something in a pan/wok, take a minute to soak it in a warm water so when you finish your meal to wash along with rest of the dishes, the discarded bits of  food does not harden and stuck to the pan. It makes easier to wash and also having a system to put things in its proper place and condition that would be ready for the next use . The cycle repeats when you have cleaned up the kitchen, washed all the dishes and put them back in place then you would have a clean kitchen for cooking again!