Cleaning the Kitchen - Daily Living Skills

Hello. Welcome to Transition to Life and Daily Living Skills. Today we're going to learn how to clean the kitchen. Before you actually start to clean, you need to clear off your spaces. So get rid of anything that's on the cupboards or counters that doesn't belong there. Put everything away so that you've got a clean surface to work with. Once you've cleared off your counters, we're going to use the 2B Clean System. You've done several videos ahead of this, and you've also been practicing, hopefully, cleaning using the 2B Clean System. So you know that we're going to start at the top, work to the bottom, and then work in circles. We're going to start at the top with some sort of a duster to dust off the top of our cabinets, the top of our refrigerator, and maybe any cobwebs that might be up on the ceiling. A quick swipe, if you do it on a regular basis, is all that it will take. After you've made your circle around the top of the kitchen, you want to start working towards the middle of the cabinets. This is where you can wipe off any finger smudges, spills, or streaks that might have gotten onto your cabinets, onto the top of your vent fan, or any other surface up here at the top of your kitchen. We're now at the business part of your kitchen, where your stove is, where your sink is, and your counters. This is the part that has the most activity, consequently the most germs. I use a good disinfectant cleaner, and every time go ahead and clean my entire stove. If I have a spill, I may need to take the grate off of a gas stove, or actually take the burner out of an electric stove to clean the spill pans down inside. Make sure you get into every nook, cranny. Clean out those crevices so that the germs can't hide there. Move across your kitchen counter. Be sure to rinse your sponge out, get the dirt out. Wring it out really well before you continue to spray with your disinfectant and wipe it down. Now that we've cleaned the ceiling, the middle parts, and the countertops of the kitchen, it's time to look at the floor. My broom has a dustpan built into it. If you don't have this kind of a broom, then you may want to get a broom and a dustpan and whisk broom before you start sweeping. I'm going to demonstrate how to sweep, even though you've already done a worksheet on it, and I think you know how to sweep, but sometimes it's easier if you see somebody do it. I've begun sweeping, and I use the same circle method. You can see that the things that I'm sweeping have been pushed into a circle in the middle of my floor. See how my broom stays in contact with the floor? I'm not doing any crazy throwing my broom around. I'm just basically pushing the dirt into a little pile. My whisk broom would take the place of the broom if I had both a whisk broom and a dustpan. If I don't have it, I hold my broom way down low, like I'm holding it now, and then push the dirt into the dustpan. If you look, you can see that the edge of the dustpan is just a little ways up. I'm not holding my dustpan like this, and I'm not holding it down. Neither will let the dirt in. It's just at like a 45 degree angle so that the dirt can go right inside and can be easily picked up. When I'm finished sweeping, that's when I would use the mop. I've already started, but you can see I'm just going back and forth in a small line here so that I make sure that I clean the floor thoroughly. When I've finished, I'm going between this line of wood and that line of wood, then I'm going to move down to the next one, overlapping a little bit and continuing to mop back and forth until I have the entire floor done. We've been studying how to clean the kitchen. We've used the to-be-clean method to start at the top and work to the bottom, and we've worked in circles around the kitchen to clean the top of the cabinets and vents, to clean the middle of the cupboards, to clean the countertops and stove, and then to clean the floor. You've learned how to mop, how to sweep, how to wipe down your cabinets, and how to organize your kitchen. Take a look at the test in your book. See how much you've retained and how much you've learned, and good luck with cleaning.