How we keep our kitchen clean (robot vacuum praise!)

Bonjour everyone. I hope you're all doing well. Welcome back to my home here in the French countryside and to my kitchen here in Burgundy. I love keeping this space clean and tidy. And I've had so many messages on Instagram and also comments here on YouTube from you saying, "How do you manage to keep it that clean?" Well, I have a couple of routines that I make myself and my family stick to that help us keep it tidy. And I've talked about this before. The floor is extremely difficult to keep clean. But I'm happy to say that I have found a little helper and that is the Eovax Debot T80 Omni. That's a whole mouthful to say. This wonderful little robot that mops and vacuums my floor. And I want to share with you how it works later in this video. This is where you could sigh and say, "Oh my gosh, not another sponsored video. But if you're as skeptical to these kind of appliances as I was, you might want to stay and see how I tried it and what my thoughts were. The first routine that helps me keep our kitchen clean is to simply keep cleaning up. Today I'm making soup. And as soon as I'm done cutting all the veggies and I've got my soup going, I am going to start cleaning. I will bring out the compost. I will clean my cutting board. I will clean my countertops. And I will start washing the bowls that I use. The real issue in this kitchen is the floor. It's a terra cotta floor which has a very rough surface. So, it is really not easy to keep clean. So, I called in the help of the Eovax Debot T80 Omni robot vacuum. And Eovax is also kindly sponsoring this video. My mom always taught me to make sure I stay on top of things. She keeps telling me, "Just mop this floor once or twice a week and you will not get the buildup of dirt, which makes you have to scrub it until you pull your hair out." And I guess as we grow older and maybe also a little wiser, we usually end up understanding that our moms were right. The issue is we clean all the time for the holiday rentals that we have. I don't feel like I have the time nor the energy to be mopping this floor twice a week. The Eovax Debot T80 Omni might be that thing that I have been waiting for. Now, I will say I was very skeptical about this. My son opened the box as soon as it came in and set it up and it was so quick that I haven't even seen what exactly he did. I then downloaded the app and connected it to the station and robot. You need to name your robot and I decided to call it the black dirt devil. Then the first thing we did was have the Eovax Debot T80 Omni map our space for which it uses pretty advanced AI. Now in this space we have the kitchen, the sitting area with a rug. So, the Eovax Debbot T80 Omni started mapping out our 65 square meter space. And I guess the mechanical engineer husband and the tiny bit scared but also very curious cat were equally intrigued with the intelligence. It quickly recognized the carpet, the smaller and bigger pieces of furniture, and the odd corners of our space. And in no time, it had our map ready. Then you simply fill the clean water tank with fresh water. And you use the app to select the settings such as the cleaning mode, the suction power, the water flow rate, and the speed. And you can even ask it to do two subsequent rounds of cleaning, one after the other, if you feel your space is really dirty. The app allows you to choose different cleaning modes. either just vacuum or vacuum and mop at the same time or vacuum first. A first round of vacuum cleaning, then a second round of just mopping. I did some research and learned that typical robot vacuums and mops have spinning mop pads. But the Eovax Deepot T80 Omni uses a specific roller mop, which is able to apply far more downward pressure than you will get with most robot vacuums. That is definitely what this floor needs. We still do lots of building works in this part of the house. We walk into the garden and back into the room all the time. And we have two boys and a cat. So, this floor gets very dirty. The Eovax Debot T80 Omni also has a feature that's called instant selfwash. That's a special system that washes the mop with hot water a couple of times during the cleaning session, which means the dirty water is stored in a separate reservoir, and the roller mop will use fresh, clean water after each clean. And so when Olaf has gone outside to get some wood for his building projects and he comes in with his muddy shoes, I can launch a cleaning session and it cleans all the dirt without leaving any traces or without smearing all of the dirt after itself. I think that is pretty impressive. And what I find very convenient, especially for this kind of situation, is that I can select a specific area to be cleaned. So, when we're busy during the day, fine. We'll make a mess. We'll leave it all on the floor. And then when the work is done, I can select the area that has gotten really dirty and have the Eovax Debt 80 Omni vacuum and mop that particular space only. So, I can select a zone, launch a cleaning session, and it will very specifically and precisely clean that little bit, and everything looks pristine and clean by the time that it's done. And I don't have to do anything but take a shower after the building works, get a coffee, and relax. I know that in the past two years of having this floor, I have found myself completely frustrated and crying and yelling at everybody saying, "Can somebody else just please take care of this? We do a lot of cleaning. We need to clean our own house. We need to keep two rental homes clean all the time." At some point, you just don't want to be doing it all alone all the time. And I think I'm learning that a device like this can really feel like such a big help and such a relief and quite honestly helping me keep my sanity. >> Completed return to station. The roller mop also extends out so that it can reach as far as possible on the side of the robot in the corners and around the edges. And as for the vacuum, the Eovax Debot T80 Omni recognized the carpet and it automatically boosts suction when it's on the carpet. It also automatically lifts the mop up by 10 mm when it detects the carpet to prevent it from getting wet from the roller mob. Eovax is an established brand and they have continuously improved their robot vacuum models and they've been using AI for years now. I have to say their AI feels very advanced as it gets extremely close to objects and to our beautifully natural lime rendered walls which I really don't want to get damaged and it gets close to furniture and walls without hitting anything. It is very detailed in its cleaning around the legs of furniture for example. I also activated the pet sensitivity function, so it is even more sensitive to avoiding objects such as a cat, which isn't an object, but a beautiful soul, especially our beautiful Tigrat. The side brushes continuously rotate, reaching every little corner of the space and allowing for dirt and dust, hairs, and pet fur to be sucked up. And I'll be honest, I had not washed or scrubbed this floor for over a month when we used the Eovax Debot T80 Omni for the first time. And so it maybe wasn't a very fair test. As even if I would have scrubbed it manually, I wouldn't have been able to clean it in one go. But when I emptied the dirty water reservoir after the first cleaning, I was positively surprised with how much dirt the Eovax Debot T80 Omni actually got off my floors. I am almost ashamed to show you this, but for the sake of giving you some proof, I will. And I'd be happy to come see in your home how clean your floors are when you mop them. And so we have very positively accepted the schedule of having the Eovax Debot T80 Omni run twice a week. I use the quiet mode so it actually isn't very loud at all. And so while the Eovax Debot T80 Omni is doing the hard work for me, I can sit down and read my book. And I've just started a new beautiful book by Melissa D Costa, whom I've talked about before. If you want more information about the Eovax Debot T80 Omni, I have included a link in the description box. So, yes, the obvious cleaning is crucial for keeping a clean and tidy kitchen. But there is a last thing that I want to share that makes all of that possible and that is a smart organization of your kitchen. I like it when things are aesthetically pleasing like visually pleasing. So we have a very organized kitchen. Each part of this kitchen is for a specific type of thing. So the island on one side is all things for setting the table. So when I'm cooking on the side where the stove is, there is space to move for my family members to be setting the table without us being in each other's way. But to the side of the stove, the kitchen island is filled with cutting boards, all my baking stuff, all of my appliances that I use a lot, but not every day. If I would leave them out on the counter, they would just be getting dusty. And we have two plug sockets on the right of the island. So, I can plug in two of these appliances at the same time. And all of this has been something that we've been really thinking about when designing this kitchen. I also like this part of my kitchen. We call this the breakfast prepping station. Here is all the things I need to make breakfast for our guests. And the last thing that I really really like and it was very intentional in the design for this kitchen is that we have a pantry. We designed this kitchen from scratch. So we were able to create it here. And actually all of our food is in the pantry. So there is no food storage in my kitchen. Not even the fridge and the freezer are in my kitchen. All of that is in the pantry. My kitchen is also the heart of our home, the living space. We work here at the table. We relax here on the couches. So, I am always looking at this kitchen. If you love cooking as much as I do, you will know the frustration of when you feel like you want to try a new recipe and you enter your kitchen and the first thing you need to do is start washing dishes or cleaning up other people's stuff. And so one last thing I will say about dishwashers, I like handwashing things because it means that everything I could possibly need will be ready to be used. Which is also why I love this vintage sink from the 50s that I thrifted because I absolutely wanted one with one of those drying rack, whatever things you call this thing to the left. I really don't know why they don't make them like this anymore. This is how I do it. This is what works for me. Let me know in the comments what works for you. What kind of cook are you? Do you wash while you cook or do you pile everything up for somebody else to do the dishes at the end of the day? That could actually really be a good way of doing it. Anyway, I'd love to hear from you. Thank you for watching this video and I'll be back very soon with a new video from France.