“Are These 15 Kitchen Items Secretly Sabotaging Your Space? Discover What to Ditch!”
Once the metal underneath is exposed, non-stick pans can rust and no longer be suitable for use in the kitchen. It’s time to ditch them for a new nonstick pan or something more hearty like a cast iron pan.
5. Old Dish Sponges
Dish sponges are excellent at making your dishes squeaky clean, but after several washes and not enough drying, they become breeding grounds for bacteria and spread germs onto your dishes.
Martha Stewart recommends replacing your kitchen sponges once they show signs of wear and tear.
6. Torn Dish Towels
Many people are guilty of using their dish towels until the towels are hanging by a thread, literally. If you can’t tell the towel’s original color, it’s time to get rid of it.
Worn-out towels are ineffective at drying dishes and can spread bacteria if not cleaned properly.
7. Worn-out Chopping Boards
While chopping boards are great for making food preparation easy, they also take quite a beating from all the altercations with the knives.
Once the boards are ridden with deep cuts or stains, they should be discarded. Chopping boards, especially wooden ones, can harbor bacteria and are difficult to clean effectively- especially if high-risk foods like raw meat are cut on them.
8. Old or Unused Cookbooks
Once you have gone through your cookbooks, recipe by recipe, and you no longer refer to them for recipes, consider donating or recycling them.
