When do you clean up your cooking debris?

[TastyReuben]

If I do ANYTHING with flour, the flour ends up everywhere. It's all over my countertops, it's on my floor, it's on my clothes, it on my %&$#*% dog!

CD

Same here, and I'm more careful with flour than anything else.

 

[garlichead]

I clean as I go and thoroughly clean right after the meal...well 90% of the time, but never leave it too long.

 

[rascal]

If I do ANYTHING with flour, the flour ends up everywhere. It's all over my countertops, it's on my floor, it's on my clothes, it's on my %&$#*% dog!

CD

X2 minus the mutt. Lol.

Russ

 

[Rocklobster]

I've checked off three boxes..I try and stay on top of it, and then go at it again after dinner . we may leave a couple of things to soak like a really dirty pot or cooking pan/tray, etc...but, the counters and stove top are usually always done before we retire..

 

[vernplum]

When baking something, cleanup is more difficult than ever. You have sticky stuff in gobs.

But I found the chores are best handled

1) When waiting on the first rise of a dough.
2) During the bake time which can be anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour.

It's best to attack the sticky dough stuff right away, because it will harden with a bit of time passage.

I don't bake that often, but when I do, I purposely let the leftover sticky bits in the bowl dry up and harden as I find it makes it easy just to flake them off into the bin.

 

[Windigo]

As I am the one who cooks, my husband is the one who does the dishes. Well, he brings them to the dishwasher and takes them out again. So definitely after cooking and eating it gets put away.