23 Products For People Who Love To Cook But Hate To Clean
What do we want? Dishes that will clean themselves! When do we want 'em? IMMEDIATELY.
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1. Reusable non-stick oven liners that will catch any drippings and crumbs during your cooking sesh and prevent them from becoming sticky, burnt blobs at the bottom of your oven. Just rinse or throw the mats in the dishwasher after each use.
2. An Angry Mama microwave cleaner that'll help ~scare~ the sauce splatter mess away. Just add vinegar and water and turn on the microwave for seven minutes. The crusted food will loosen up, and you can easily swipe it away.
3. A 7-in-1 Instant Pot so you can dump a bunch of ingredients into one pot, make a yummy meal, and clean up faster than you can say bon appétit.
4. A vegetable chopper that'll keep your kitchen nice and tidy during meal prep. Liquids won't drip off the side of your cutting board, veggies won't fly across the kitchen, and you can easily transfer them from the container to the pot.
5. A splatter guard so you can fry your favorite foods without grease coating every inch of your kitchen.
6. A scrap trap to help you clean up as you cook and easily dump your scraps *without* having to carry them from the counter to the garbage in your hands (leaving a messy trail behind).
7. A lazy cooking spoon that will attach to the side of any pot or pan so you don't have to clean a spoon rest or the counter. Lazy? I say genius.
8. Or if you like your current set of cooking utensils, these pot clips that you can attach to your pots and pans — they will also eliminate unnecessary mess.
9. A pot with a strainer lid so you can say ciao to your colander. Thank him for his services, but the new guy will be your go-to because you won't have to wash yet *another* dish.
10. A 10-piece non-stick cookware set that's dishwasher-safe, so you can just throw your big pots and pans in the bottom rack and spend less time at the sink.
11. A multi-section pan so you can cook a full meal and only have one singular pan to clean up for the first time in history.
12. A kale, chard, and herb stripper that won't *kale* your cooking vibe because there will be minimal mess and dishes to clean up afterwards.
13. A set of three mixing bowls to make even the messiest of recipes a piece of cake. Need to mix batter? Need to grate veggies? No problem, because their air-tight lids have special mess-proof superpowers that will take away allllll your after-dinner cleaning anxiety.
14. A whisk cleaner for when you're feeling ~whisk-y~ and want to get a crisp and quick clean on your whisk.
15. A 3-in-1 pancake batter mixer so you don't need a million bowls just to make your family pancakes. You can make the batter, shake it up, and pour it onto the pan with just this one squeeze bottle.
16. A slanted carving board to catch all the delicious juices as you cut your iron chef–worthy steak so they don't run everywhere.
17. A multi-use utensil that has five different functions, meaning you need to wash four fewer cooking utensils. This dude really is a jack-of-all-trades who's good at all of his jobs.
18. A foldable cutting board so you can chop your veggies and put them into the pan without screaming "man down!" and having to run around picking up all the poor lil' guys who ended up on the floor.
19. A small can colander so you don't need to dirty a big one just to drain canned veggies for your fave recipe. Plus, it keeps your sink cleaner when preparing food like canned tuna because little particles won't be running wild all over the place.
20. A garlic press that will basically clean itself! Just fling the garlic shells into the garbage pan and chuck it in the top rack of the dishwasher.
21. A dish squeegee to easily scrape food off plates/pans before they go in the dishwasher or get hand-washed. We all know that the sound a fork makes against a plate is v. unpleasant. *eek*
22. A hardcore sponge that'll scour your dishes like no other, won't smell or gather bacteria, and may outlive your pet goldfish.
23. A non-stick silicone mat so you don't have to scrub burnt residue off your baking pans. Instead, your food will just slide right off of these easy-to-clean liners.
You, easily cleaning up after making a five course meal:
