When you cook a full-course meal, your kitchen may look like a bomb went off. Cooking chicken, pasta, pizza, tacos, or burgers requires you to use a multitude of kitchen utensils. Before you know it, you’ll have used 4 pots, 2 pans, a collection of spatulas, spoons, forks and knives.

The best thing you can do while cooking up some goodies in the kitchen is try to rinse and wash as you go. If you wait until the very end, you most likely will be full and tired and won’t want to spend any more time in the kitchen cleaning up the mess.

Piling dishes up in the sink creates an unhealthy environment for food consumption, and also lead to clogged drains, moldy sponges, rotting food, and an ever-growing pile of grime full of bacteria.