New Years kitchen management

Scratch cooking is a good tool to reduce the cost of your food.   You will be more likely to b motivated to cook from scratch if it isn’t a pain in the neck to do it.   A kitchen that isn’t organized and that you a to unearth your appliances and hunt for ingredients is just calling the food kit and take out demons.   LOL.   

A few organizational hours can save many hours the rest of the year.  If necessary, take a section of the kitachen at a time.   Stand in the middle of the kitchen and picture yourself making the thing you make most.   Coffee?   Sometimes the first thing you make in the morning?   Where’s the coffee pot.   Near the sink?   The first thing you do to make coffee is to fill a receptacle with water.   Where’s the coffee?  The mugs?   A small coffee bar or section of the counter delighted to coffee and tea is a good start.   

Grouping your supplies into categories in the cupboards, is another good start: 

• Baking supplies with the baking implements:   Cupcake liners, measuring spoons and cups, piping bags, thermometers, cake testing wire......baking pans in a cupboard together.   
• Ah...the minimalist....its my opinion that if the appliances that you use on a regular basis are sitting out, you will probably use them more often.   The thought of carrying a kitchen aid mixer from a pantry to the countertop is enough for me to skip the project.   I think that is one reason why I like the insta pot.  It takes one footprint and does several jobs.   Right now, I have simplified to a coffee pot, hot water pot,   Single use coffee pot (daughter) , hot afar fryer, insta pot an kitchen aid mixer, food processer and blender.   All tools I use on a regular basis.   
• Utensils in a crock makes it easy to grab and use instead of hunting in a drawer.   Make things easy on yourself.   Have more than one pancake turner if you use more than one at a time.   Washing a inexpensve tool between uses in the same cooking time is countr productive.  You disrupt your flow.   
• Place things where you use them.   Unloading the dishwasher (or drai Er ) pick all of one thing and stack them.   Then you are putting everything away with one step, not six or seven.   You are opening the cupboard once. Dump the silverware basket on the counter.   Now, picking up all the knives are easy, and you are saving steps.   
• Zone the kitchen. Even a tiny kitchen can have zones.   If  like things are in the same place it saves a lot of steps.    Coffee, baking. Pots near the stove or sink.   Small kitchen, use every available space...walls can hold racks, ceilings can hold racks.   

Organizing your kitchen can save time and money.