Spotless- Hacks for keeping Your Kitchen Clean and Free from Chemicals

I remember how clean my mother kept her kitchen. Spotless. Not clean in the way your kitchen is clean after a Sunday-night blitz, when you have sprayed and scrubbed and the surfaces are wet and shining for approximately eleven minutes before someone opens the peanut butter. Clean in a different way. Continuously clean. Clean during the cooking, not just after it. Clean as a state of being rather than a frantic effort.

Your mother, or your grandmother, stood in that kitchen for hours. She peeled, chopped, fried, boiled, roasted, wiped, served and cleared. The oven was in use. The pots were full. The oil was spattering. And somehow, by the time the meal was on the table, the kitchen behind her looked as though nothing had happened in it at all. Like glass, you remember. Like someone had polished reality itself.

You have no idea how she did it.