Hello Kitchen Curees! How's it going? How does your fridge and pantry purge feel? I did an impromptu and much-needed clean-out of my own freezer last night, and it feels great to be able to see the back wall of the freezer again. Now, as we gear up for tomorrow's Week 2 assignment, we would love to hear directly from you on what still needs special help in your kitchen.
Maybe it's a cupboard you just can't clean out. Maybe it's the wall color of your kitchen. Maybe there's a small project that you have been hoping to work on for a long time.
What's the biggest problem spot in your kitchen? What needs to change? What needs to be Cured? Send us a photo, so we know how to help you best. We may address some of these problem areas specifically, too, during the remaining weeks of the Cure!
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How do I clean the drip pans under the electric burner coils? Steel wool seems like alot of effort for not much improvement in the charcoal residue stuck below. The other problem child is the aluminum grill pan from my mother's younger days. It's chocolate brown to black from years of seared on grease. Oven cleaner didn't make a dent in the black, heavy crust. Thanks for some ideas.
Okay, here's my pantry thing that is holding me up (no photo necessary): What do I do with all the old food that we've got in the pantry? You know the type--jars of food that have no eating appeal from Christmas baskets, old cans of green chili from back in the old day before we froze fresh ones, old boxes of instant rice for camping that are now like 3 years old. I keep thinking that it's 'yucky', so I should throw it away, and then I think that no, it's good, so I should give it away. That's my hang-up! But I plan to knock it out by the end of tomorrow--for some reason the fridge/ freezer clean out was easier, because everything was already opened that got discarded.
I was gone during week 1, so, this week, I need to purge my fridge and pantry, which is overgrown with outdated stuff. (Some of which was from a move 2 1/2 years ago-which I know is no longer good.) I need to catch up!