Cleanliness Is Safety!
Yep! A clean kitchen is a safe kitchen. The best way to control things like bugs and rodents is be keeping your kitchen clean. Do not let dirty dishes, pots, pans, etc just sit around. The traces of food in/on them are food for roaches, ants, flies, and other pests that I doubt you want around. Grease deposits on your stove or in your oven can not only attract insects, they can catch fire.
When you have guests, and they come into your kitchen, you want them to get the right impression, right? Then keep your kitchen clean and organized. When the meal is over, wash the dishes, pots, etc as soon as possible. Wipe your stove and counters clean. Put away any leftovers immediately. Take out the garbage.
If you keep your kitchen clean, you should not have problems with pests. However, here is a trick that does not hurt; and can pretty much insure a roach and ant free cooking environment: Buy some dry boric acid, mix it half-and-half with flour, and put pop bottle lids full of it in places like under the sink, behind the stove, or wherever you think bugs might hide. The toxicity of boric acid is about equivalent to aspirin, but the effectiveness is incredible. Further, the bugs never become immune to it.
Posted: Tuesday 20th March 2007, 4:14 PM
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