Do you have a clean kitchen? Well, you should. Your kitchen, the counter in particular, will have constant contact with the food that you cook, which in turn will make contact with your body. It's not farfetched to assume that whatever is growing on your kitchen counter will get to your food, and consequentially into your stomach.
That means that, even if you do not like it, you will have to clean your kitchen. I suppose you clean it on a regular basis anyway, so is that enough? Well, no. Do not forget the oftentimes unnoticed part of your kitchen counter: The grout.
Because of the composition of the grout itself, the material tends to absorb everything around it, most notably spoiled food bits, dust, and slime. So as the absorbed particles get gathered up, the muck it absorbed earlier gets pulled deeper in deeper. The grout as a whole, then, becomes harder to clean. Basically, the longer you don't clean it, the harder it becomes to clean when you actually decide to.
Now, as if the bacteria aren't enough, leave it unclean long enough and you've pretty much invited the dreaded black mold into your kitchen. Bearing the scientific name stachybotrys chartatum, this greenish-black mold makes humans and our pets sick. Its been known, at its worst, to make an infant's lungs bleed.
Clean your kitchen grout. Maintain it everyday by washing, and scrub it good with detergent. Coat it with an alcohol and water solution afterwards; spraying the contents onto the surface.
Lastly, if the process of cleaning itself is difficult for you, then you may consider hiring professional grout cleaners to do the job for you. I live in Atlanta, and there are awesome grout cleaners in that area. Call them now, and watch them to something to your kitchen grout that you didn't think could be done; make them look new again. - 16732
That means that, even if you do not like it, you will have to clean your kitchen. I suppose you clean it on a regular basis anyway, so is that enough? Well, no. Do not forget the oftentimes unnoticed part of your kitchen counter: The grout.
Because of the composition of the grout itself, the material tends to absorb everything around it, most notably spoiled food bits, dust, and slime. So as the absorbed particles get gathered up, the muck it absorbed earlier gets pulled deeper in deeper. The grout as a whole, then, becomes harder to clean. Basically, the longer you don't clean it, the harder it becomes to clean when you actually decide to.
Now, as if the bacteria aren't enough, leave it unclean long enough and you've pretty much invited the dreaded black mold into your kitchen. Bearing the scientific name stachybotrys chartatum, this greenish-black mold makes humans and our pets sick. Its been known, at its worst, to make an infant's lungs bleed.
Clean your kitchen grout. Maintain it everyday by washing, and scrub it good with detergent. Coat it with an alcohol and water solution afterwards; spraying the contents onto the surface.
Lastly, if the process of cleaning itself is difficult for you, then you may consider hiring professional grout cleaners to do the job for you. I live in Atlanta, and there are awesome grout cleaners in that area. Call them now, and watch them to something to your kitchen grout that you didn't think could be done; make them look new again. - 16732
About the Author:
Sam Weyland prefers to do grout cleaning herself, but also recommends Grout Cleaning for those who are unable to do so. Visit Grout Cleaning and drop that mop!
