1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,200 Thanks for joining me. In today's episode, I'm going to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:08,240 talk you through Speed Cleaning Your Kitchen and I'm also going 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,760 to give a product recommendation in this one. 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,080 You'd be surprised how many reviews I get where people are 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,080 disappointed because I didn't give product recommendations. 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,160 So I'm trying to talk more about the products I use and yesterday 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,560 I purchased something that I haven't used in a while and 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,320 decided it was going to become a regular thing when your. 9 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,560 House is a mess and you're feeling the stress. 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,640 What you need is a friend in your ear. 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:44,280 Start the job and you'll see it through with Ronnie talking to 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:45,440 you. Make the chaos disappear. 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:58,880 Clean with Me podcast is here. I'm going to assume you're 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,560 already dressed for the day. If not, pause the episode and 15 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,319 dress for the day. Straighten up your front 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,280 entrance, maybe start a load of laundry, whatever you need to do 17 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,640 to feel at peace about heading to the kitchen and working in 18 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,320 there. So I'm going to assume you've 19 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:18,760 already done that. Step one to cleaning the kitchen 20 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,080 is always gathering up dirty dishes from around the house. 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,800 Arguably, it's taking out the trash, so you're going to need 22 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,800 to do that too. You're going to need to take out 23 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,320 the kitchen trash and reline that wastebasket. 24 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,360 I'm assuming it's full because we have to take ours out every 25 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,120 day. Make sure you have an empty 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,280 wastebasket so you can throw things away as you're cleaning 27 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,520 and make sure you've brought everything to the sink area. 28 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,000 You don't want to do all the dishes and then discover there 29 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,320 are mugs on the night stand in the bedroom or an ice cream bowl 30 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,680 while you're gearing up for your kitchen cleaning session. 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,680 I want to kind of plug the bonus episodes if you're not already 32 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,280 supporting the show. I'm about to create a new bonus 33 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:09,000 episode that solves a cleaning related marriage problem. 34 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,280 And I realize some of you are single, but from time to time I 35 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,800 like to give a little bit of relationship advice because I've 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:24,360 gotten a lot of positive feedback that many of you like 37 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,720 hearing that. But that's kind of a deep rabbit 38 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:32,040 hole to go down. It's going to take me a while to 39 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,000 explain this epiphany I had recently. 40 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,160 So you're going to do more housework in that episode? 41 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,920 It's going to be a longer episode. 42 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,880 In this one, we're just focusing on the dishes and kitchen 43 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:51,200 surfaces. A while back I talked about the 44 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,800 Dawn Power Wash. You know that spray where you 45 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,400 spray it, spray it on your dishes instead of the 46 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,440 traditional dishwashing liquid that you pour out. 47 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,280 And for some reason, at the time, I just wasn't that 48 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:12,080 impressed by it. I don't know if I had some bias 49 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,880 going into trying it because I didn't like the price point, or 50 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,560 maybe at the time my dishes were heavily soiled and I'd let stuff 51 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,360 dry on too long and I just didn't feel like it was as 52 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:30,800 effective as I thought. But kind of on a whim yesterday 53 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,280 I bought some. I wasn't even thinking about the 54 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,720 show. I was just thinking I wanted to 55 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:45,000 get the most powerful dish soap available, and I felt like 56 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,640 splurging on it. I realize I might be kind of 57 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,520 contradicting myself. I don't remember what I said in 58 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,640 that old episode. I just remember talking about 59 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,920 the fact that I wasn't that excited about it. 60 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,880 And then some of you commented that maybe I didn't use it 61 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,200 right. I don't know. 62 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,960 But I gave it another try yesterday and decided that I do 63 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,520 like it. Yesterday I was doing some work 64 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:15,480 on the computer and I felt like getting up and moving around and 65 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,800 I knew my husband was going to be making dinner, but he was 66 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,200 kind of relaxing. So I thought, well, I should 67 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:27,120 clean the kitchen so that he can go into a clean kitchen and make 68 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,240 dinner in a little bit. He would have just gone in and 69 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,600 cleaned, but I didn't want him to have to. 70 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:36,880 So I started spraying everything with that Dawn power wash. 71 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:42,320 And I do admit that it's a little expensive for the size 72 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,440 because I'm used to getting the blue dawn liquid kind of in 73 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,680 bulk. Like I get a huge container 74 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,720 obviously makes it a lot cheaper, you know, per oz. 75 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,280 But I mean, that having been said, these little things we do 76 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,640 to pamper ourselves when cleaning, you know, buying a 77 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,560 luxury product like Cascade Platinum dishwasher pods or the 78 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,200 Don Power Wash spray isn't really going to make or break 79 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,240 us. You know, it's not like you 80 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,560 started going to Starbucks twice a day or something. 81 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,080 Sometimes there's just a season where you want to make things 82 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,640 easier on yourself. And then, you know, maybe in the 83 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,760 future when you're keeping up on dishes, you might want to go 84 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:36,400 back and start getting that giant container of the liquid 85 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,440 again. Entering kind of a busy season 86 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,280 because I'm starting a new part time job in addition to working 87 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:49,000 at the school, so I'm temporarily going to be doing a 88 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,160 little more than I should. I guess for me, this is a season 89 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,360 where spraying the dishes might be a good idea. 90 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,720 So if you haven't already started on this, it's time to 91 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,280 pre rinse your dishes. OK, if you were using like the 92 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:10,480 spray and I noticed there was a generic spray too that was 93 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:15,080 significantly cheaper. So I might try that as well. 94 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,840 But I pre rinsed the dishes first, at least most of them 95 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,800 unless they they didn't look like they needed pre rinsing and 96 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,640 then I just went ahead and sprayed it on. 97 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,560 Maybe you have a spray right now and maybe you don't. 98 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,440 It might be that you're just pre rinsing your dishes and pots and 99 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,240 pans under running water with a scrub brush or a sponge. 100 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,000 Since I'm talking about those sprays, I'm going to kind of 101 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,560 assume in this episode that you're using it, which is why I 102 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,080 didn't tell you to empty your dishwasher or drying rack. 103 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,320 I mean, maybe you did while I was talking. 104 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,280 If so, great, you're ahead of the game. 105 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,880 But when I went in to clean yesterday, the first thing I did 106 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,600 was to get that spray on my dishes again. 107 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,480 Some of them I pre rinse, some of them I just started spraying. 108 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,520 Then I emptied the dishwasher because the key with that 109 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,200 product is giving it some time to do its work. 110 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:16,000 So once you get everything pre rinsed and sprayed if 111 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,600 applicable, it'll be time to empty your dishwasher and drying 112 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,040 rack to make sure you have a place to put stuff. 113 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,280 OK, And some of you after the pre rinse might have gotten some 114 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,560 items soaking because if you don't have the spray, obviously 115 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,680 you want to get those heavily soiled items soaking. 116 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,720 OK. I often fill up the pots and 117 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:42,560 pans with hot water, liquid dish soap, place them on the counter. 118 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,720 And then if I come across some silverware that's got stuff kind 119 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,200 of caked on or dried on, I'll set it inside of one of the pots 120 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,840 that's soaking. But kind of the theme of this 121 00:07:53,840 --> 00:08:00,240 episode is going to be pre rinsing and pretreating your 122 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,560 dishes so that you don't have to scrub as much. 123 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,920 I definitely touch on that in every episode where I talk about 124 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,760 dishes, but I want to emphasize it in this one. 125 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:16,000 The order in which you do things can affect how long it takes to 126 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,800 get your dishes done. So it's key to allow whatever 127 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:26,480 dishwashing product you're using time to do its work. 128 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,520 I'm going to give you a couple more minutes to get things pre 129 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,120 rinsed and soaking. Obviously some of you are 130 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,159 already washing dishes. Maybe you already did an empty 131 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,919 reload and run of a dishwasher while I was talking. 132 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,400 But setting yourself up for success is key. 133 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,200 You want to, you know, clean out your sink. 134 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,440 You want to have all the dishes brought to the kitchen, then you 135 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,560 want to get difficult items soaking. 136 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,520 You want to pre rinse everything. 137 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,480 If you have a dishwasher, unless it's just the most top of the 138 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,960 line expensive dishwasher out there, you probably need to pre 139 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,840 rinse things and at least scrub the food off of them. 140 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,920 I know there are dishwashers that have a built in garbage 141 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,360 disposal that I guess chops up that debris just like the 142 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,440 garbage disposal in your sink does. 143 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,280 Hopefully by now you've completed the pre rinsing stage 144 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,200 and you either have some things soaking or you've applied a 145 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:36,200 dishwashing spray to those items after, you know, rinsing or 146 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,600 scraping the debris out of them. If you haven't already done so, 147 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,840 empty your dishwasher, empty your drying rack, and then 148 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,200 continue to put things away in your kitchen. 149 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,560 OK, that leaves time for things to soak and sprays to do their 150 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:58,200 work. OK, maybe you have seasoning 151 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,640 sitting out cereal boxes. I feel like I need to quit 152 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,160 bringing up these same played out examples. 153 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,840 But those are the items that I find, you know, in my kitchen. 154 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:15,320 Or there might be plastic wrap and things like that that people 155 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:20,520 just left out. Toss all that trash and just put 156 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,960 things away and there could be other items in your kitchen that 157 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,920 don't even belong there. Just be careful if you're going 158 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,720 to another room that you don't get sidetracked. 159 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,880 But I don't think that's an issue when you're listening to a 160 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,600 cleaning podcast where I'm talking you through the steps of 161 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,480 cleaning your kitchen. I think that's just something to 162 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,040 remember on a day where maybe you're listening to some 163 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,600 unrelated non cleaning related content. 164 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,360 You know, Be careful about the tendency to get sidetracked 165 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,200 while in another room. Some people keep paper clutter 166 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,200 in their kitchen. I don't really understand that. 167 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:08,040 I mean, I guess it kind of goes back to a time when people had a 168 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:12,800 phone, like a wall mount phone in the kitchen kind of near the 169 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,600 end of one of the countertops. You know, people ended up having 170 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:21,120 like pens and paper and, you know, maybe they were paying 171 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,160 their bills on that phone and that's where that started. 172 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,800 But I definitely don't keep stuff like that in the kitchen. 173 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 That said, you know, as you're putting away clutter or 174 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,600 whatever, if you do have a little station, a bill paying 175 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,440 station of some sort in the kitchen, I recommend getting 176 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,440 some kind of a basket or container or maybe clearing out 177 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,320 a drawer for that stuff. I'm really big on having 178 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,400 containers on your countertop for whatever. 179 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,600 Let me give you an example. We have chickens, OK, Each day 180 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,600 my son goes outside and gathers eggs. 181 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,120 And over the years we've used different containers to put the 182 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:08,720 eggs in. But sometimes, you know, my 183 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,800 husband will designate a container that I use for 184 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,240 something else and I don't really want it going out in the 185 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,360 yard and whatever. Sometimes a container gets left 186 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,280 in the yard. It's a whole thing. 187 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:28,960 So for some reason, we'd fallen into a rut where my son was just 188 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,920 setting the eggs on like a little towel on the dining room 189 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,960 table. Well, sometimes the cat was 190 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,480 getting up there and slapping. And no, my cat's not allowed on 191 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,880 the table. But irritatingly, it was 192 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,800 attracted to the eggs, and it was slapping them off of the 193 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,720 table onto a chair. Number one, I don't want the cat 194 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,440 to be tempted to get on the table for any reason. 195 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,840 And then #2 of course I don't want it breaking the eggs. 196 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,400 So I often go shopping in my own house. 197 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:05,840 If you've been listening for a while, you know this. 198 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:12,440 I looked in my pantry and I have a little wire basket that I keep 199 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,120 my gravy packets in and I thought that would be a cute 200 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,520 basket for eggs. It would be perfect for the 201 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,160 unwashed eggs. When they're first brought in, 202 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,120 they go in that basket and then my husband has a task of 203 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,160 scrubbing them under running water with a little scrub brush 204 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,240 before he put some in the fridge. 205 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,080 Don't write me and tell me about the fact that eggs have this 206 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,880 protective covering called bloom that makes them stay fresh 207 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,880 longer. Yes, I'm aware of that. 208 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:43,760 After we wash them, we put them in the fridge, but I realized 209 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,080 they can sit out on the counter for a while before they've been 210 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,920 washed. That's that's what the baskets 211 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,960 for. Took the wire basket that I was 212 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:57,960 keeping my gravy packets in and I already had a little 213 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,440 rectangular box in the pantry that was a container. 214 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,400 Something came in, I don't remember what it was, but you 215 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,840 know, it wasn't as cute as the basket, but it's inside my 216 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,720 pantry. So I thought, well, this little 217 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,200 box could become the new gravy container for now because I'm 218 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,400 not trying to go out and get a bunch of cute stuff. 219 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:24,040 Once in a while I do kind of give my pantry a makeover and 220 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,280 get new canisters and things like that. 221 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,080 But I'm not, I'm in a frugal mode right now. 222 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,640 So I just grabbed this box that had recently become empty 223 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,520 because you know how it is. If you have kids, you know this 224 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,360 like, they'll use the last of something, but then they won't 225 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,200 throw away that empty box. There's a little empty box that 226 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,560 was the perfect size and shape for storing gravies. 227 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:52,360 So I put the cute basket out, put the eggs in it, and then put 228 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,720 that box on the gravy shelf and put the gravy packets in there. 229 00:14:55,760 --> 00:15:00,760 And by gravies I mean gravy packets and other packets. 230 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,200 Sometimes I get the chili packets for making chili. 231 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,560 Yes, I can make chili completely from scratch without a packet. 232 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,160 But yes, I like using packets. And also, another packet that I 233 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:19,160 use is the Mojito Lime Chicken Marinade mix. 234 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,120 By the way, my favorite gravies are the McCormick gravies. 235 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,920 OK, this episode's full of product recommendations. 236 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,360 And no, it's not sponsored by any of these. 237 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,360 Hopefully, you've cleared the clutter off of your countertop 238 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:40,240 and given your dishes time to soak or, you know, get cleaner 239 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,560 due to the spray. Now it's time to complete the 240 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:48,520 process of washing your dishes. Maybe you need to fill up your 241 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,840 dishwasher and hand wash the rest. 242 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,400 Or maybe all you're doing is hand washing. 243 00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:00,480 OK, but for the next 5 minutes or so I want you to knock those 244 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,280 dishes out. Yes I said 5 minutes because 245 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,560 you've already done the pre treating so it shouldn't take 246 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,000 you that long if it does take longer. 247 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,960 Of course no judgment here. You know maybe you don't work as 248 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,680 quickly as I do or you are facing a dishaster. 249 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,240 Sometimes it does take me a lot longer to do the dishes and I 250 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,880 didn't time myself. Maybe it took longer than 5 251 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:27,880 minutes. Listen to some music after this 252 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,840 if you need more time. Or you know, phone a friend. 253 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,720 One of my hacks for getting dishes done when I don't feel 254 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,920 like it is just yapping on the phone because it, I, I, it 255 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,600 doesn't even feel like I'm doing dishes. 256 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,280 It's kind of like sometimes when you're driving and you're like, 257 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,320 was I even paying attention? Because I don't even remember 258 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,560 the drive home. You were kind of on autopilot 259 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,880 and you probably were paying attention, but it didn't feel 260 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,720 like you were because something else was going on in your mind 261 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,240 at the same time. That's kind of how it is when 262 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,920 you talk on the phone while doing dishes. 263 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:07,640 But yesterday after I sprayed the dishes, you know, some of 264 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,119 them I scrubbed out, some I didn't, but I got everything 265 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,520 sprayed with the Dawn power wash. 266 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:17,520 I loaded as much as I could into the dishwasher. 267 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,319 It was packed pretty full. But you know, obviously do it 268 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:23,680 strategically. You need to leave space for the 269 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,480 water to flow around and everything. 270 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,880 You know, don't, don't get too crazy with it. 271 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,560 But I put as much as possible into the dishwasher and then I 272 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:40,200 hand washed the remaining items. The only thing that I felt still 273 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,280 needed some soaking was the crock pot liner. 274 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:49,000 OK, I did spray it, but I just didn't want to do the work to 275 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,920 really scrub it. So I got down almost to dish 276 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,240 zero other than just the crock pot liner. 277 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:59,280 But most stuff went into the dishwasher, and then I just 278 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,600 started washing stuff by hand. But this is where my product 279 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:09,440 recommendation comes into play. It was surprisingly easy to wash 280 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:15,240 those remaining dishes after I had, you know, put everything 281 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,920 away in the kitchen, cleared the surfaces. 282 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,360 It was surprisingly easy. So I decided I do like this 283 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,840 product. I think what I don't like about 284 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,480 it is they don't put it in a huge container. 285 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,480 So you kind of see the level of the product going down quickly 286 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,440 the more you use. Maybe I just need to have like a 287 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:42,200 bottle of the liquid in the cupboard so that I'm not feeling 288 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:47,320 anxiety about running out of the spray, like I've got the backup 289 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,280 liquid or something and then that might make me feel more 290 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,640 generous with the spray. A lot of our cleaning struggles 291 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,280 are about our mindset and that's something I'm going to be 292 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,280 talking about in the bonus episode as well. 293 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:04,880 Be plugging away at those dishes could have even gone a step 294 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,800 further. If your dishes were heavily 295 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:12,320 soiled and you had them soaking or you had them sitting out with 296 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,880 the spray on them, you could have also scrubbed your 297 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:22,640 countertops, your large appliances, your stove top. 298 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,800 I mean, you could have even swept the floor because once 299 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:30,160 you've wiped down your countertops and stove top and 300 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:35,600 all of your dishes are just, you know, in the sink area, you 301 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,440 could even sweep at that point. And that would give the product 302 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,360 even more time to do its work. And you could even consider 303 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,640 respraying things before scrubbing them and rinsing them. 304 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,600 The key is just doing things in the proper order and giving the 305 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:57,720 products time to do their work, but also staying in the kitchen. 306 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,240 What I don't recommend is, you know, and obviously the 307 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,720 exception proves the rule, but in general, I don't recommend 308 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,760 leaving the kitchen. After pre rinsing or spraying 309 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,800 things, exception would be if you know somebody was going to 310 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:20,320 stop by and come to the door and you know, maybe your priority 311 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,880 was having your living room look good. 312 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,160 You were going to be doing dishes after they left. 313 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,640 So you just thought, well, I'm going to pretreat these. 314 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,360 But when you're not expecting company and you know, doing 315 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:36,080 things in some certain, you know, order of priority, I think 316 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,160 it's key to stay in the kitchen while things are soaking and 317 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,840 being pretreated and just putting everything away and 318 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:48,280 cleaning all of your surfaces in the meantime. 319 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,080 It's an efficient way to get your kitchen clean fast. 320 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:58,200 By the way, I mentioned wiping down your appliances. 321 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:04,720 If you've got kids or messy cooks or any number of things 322 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:08,600 can lead to this. You will sometimes get some 323 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:13,600 build up on the front of your dishwasher or even the outside 324 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,280 of your refrigerator or the outside of your oven. 325 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,320 And this is especially true if you're not spraying and wiping 326 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,960 those daily. So sometimes you need to get an 327 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:31,360 abrasive sponge and actually scrub before you spray and wipe 328 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,960 the front of your large appliances. 329 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,360 This is not as true with the dishwasher, but I feel like it 330 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:40,400 happens sometimes with the front or it is true with the 331 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,200 dishwasher. It's not as true like with the 332 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:47,240 refrigerator because the the stainless steel refrigerator we 333 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,840 have is in kind of a well lit area of the kitchen. 334 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:56,360 So it would be very noticeable if we did not spray and wipe it 335 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:01,160 down. But the dishwasher is in a 336 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:07,080 darker area, shadowy I guess. So sometimes you know, you're 337 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,440 just spraying and wiping it and you're not realizing it needs a 338 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,240 good scrubbing and little fingers are smearing stuff on 339 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,040 it. OK, Hopefully by now you've 340 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,160 gotten your dishes done and you're working on the surfaces 341 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,880 of your kitchen. You know, maybe you want to 342 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,560 start by wiping down your upper cabinets and your large 343 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,920 appliances. You know, maybe some of them 344 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,880 need a scrub. Of course you're going to want 345 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,280 to scrub your stove top countertops. 346 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,760 Clean out your sink. It it's a it's a nice finishing 347 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,120 touch after doing dishes to shine up your sink. 348 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,120 Because the better your sink looks, the less likely you are 349 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,640 to just pile things into the sink. 350 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:56,040 Just a thought. Obviously, Fly Lady's whole 351 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,040 system was designed. If you've ever listened to her, 352 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,560 she's another cleaning influencer. 353 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:06,360 Her whole system was designed around shining your sink to kind 354 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,520 of get you out of that rut where you've always got a sink full of 355 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,080 dishes. She viewed shining your sink as 356 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,960 a springboard task. That was the first step in 357 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,040 keeping a cleaner home because that was, you know, an important 358 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:24,120 part of her journey. After this episode, you're 359 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:28,560 probably going to want to sweep and mop your kitchen floor or 360 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,000 maybe go over it with a Shark vacuum, something that's good on 361 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,680 hard floors. I guess the lack of product 362 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,920 recommendations stemmed from the fact that years ago when I 363 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:46,320 started this podcast, I thought that maybe cleaning product 364 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:52,920 companies were going to sponsor me and you know, I So why would 365 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,760 I provide like free advertising for companies that aren't paying 366 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,760 me? But companies that sponsor 367 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,800 podcasts, they're just very specific companies and they're 368 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,120 not usually cleaning products. Yes, you'll probably hear me 369 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:13,920 promoting products from time to time that I like, but they might 370 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:21,040 be betting or those like meal kit services and things like 371 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,800 that. I hope you got a lot done during 372 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,760 this episode. Don't forget the finishing touch 373 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,400 of cleaning your kitchen floor. So thanks to those who are 374 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,800 supporting the show for a small monthly fee or via some other 375 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,000 method. I appreciate you more than you 376 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,600 know. And when you support the show, 377 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,320 you unlock longer episodes. And lately, I don't even always 378 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,880 make a free episode. Sometimes I just make a bonus 379 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,440 episode if I'm pressed for time. So subscribing to bonus content 380 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:59,240 will ensure that you'll have a weekly, I mean, with few 381 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,480 exceptions. 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