Tip TNH Bringing you news, opinion and support every day costs money. Tip us, and help us keep going. As homemakers, we spend enormous amounts of time in the kitchen. Both pleasurable tasks such as baking and unpleasant duties such as cleaning, consume time and energy, valuable resources for any woman. Expedient solutions and clean-up tips can help minimize the time used for chores and maximize the time spent in more enjoyable pursuits.
Space invaders One threat to kitchen tidiness is clutter.
Clutter not only hinders general kitchen organization, it hampers quick clean-up of surfaces. Two areas notorious for collecting junk of all sorts are the tops of the microwave and the refrigerator. . A microwave oven cooks less efficiently when the top is strewn with miscellany, restricting airflow. Usually only small items migrate to the microwave top. Prevent these from piling up by placing a small ornamental bowl or dish on top as a catch-all.