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I consider myself a pretty clean
person, but I have to say that every time I start researching an article, I
discover another totally filthy place that I haven’t been cleaning. In this
case, it’s the kitchen sink. It actually harbors even more bacteria than
your toilet bowl. And if you, like me, thought that it got clean as you
wash the dishes every day? Well, you are sadly mistaken.
The kitchen sink is a great place
for germs to thrive, since you fill it with warm water and let food particles
hang out there all day. (And rinse your meat juice-covered dishes in it. And
wash your egg yolk-covered hands in it. You get the idea.) So it’s certainly
dirty.
Sort of surprisingly, the key to
keeping it clean isn’t blasting it with disinfectant, but removing the organic
matter that the bacteria can grow on. Since the sink surface isn’t porous
(like, say, grout), your key factor here is putting in the work to dislodge
anything stuck to the sink walls. As in, scrubbing.
Here’s what to do.
How To Clean Your Kitchen Sink
What You Need
Ingredients
1. Baking soda
2. Water
3. Dish or castile soap
Equipment
1. Rubber gloves
2. Sponge or microfiber cloth
Instructions
1. Empty the sink: Once you’ve
finished doing your dishes for the night, empty the sink.
2. Sprinkle baking soda all around:
Because baking soda is only mildly abrasive, it will help break up food
particles without harming the sink surface.
3. Add the soap: Wearing
rubber gloves, squirt a little soap onto your sponge.
4. Add hot water: Adding a
little hot water at a time… start scrubbing. If your tap water doesn’t get that
hot, boil some in your tea kettle.
5. Scrub from the outside in: Scrub
your sink from the outside in, top to bottom (this way your dirty water will
drip into the areas you haven’t cleaned yet instead of the spot that are
already clean). Spend at least 20 seconds in each area, and longer if there’s a
visible sign of food stuck to the sink. Once the sink is finished, scrub the
inside of the drain.
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