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Cleaning

Here are the spots you’ve (okay, we’ve) been missing—plus the best cleaning tools to get the job done.

Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors

Here’s how to clean it up, quickly and easily.

Nina Moskowitz

My Miele dishwasher cleaned a pot coated with burned caramel. Need I say more?

Alex Beggs

Whether you have a drip machine, French press, or Keurig, it’s almost certainly overdue for a spruce up.

Zoe Denenberg

Give your Dutch oven and sheet pans a new lease on life.

Alex Beggs

Thank you, TikTok, for changing my relationship to cleaning.

Irina Groushevaia

Your rusty cast-iron skillet is not beyond repair. Here are three steps to save it.

Julie Harans

Drinking water is good for you! Drinking mildew and mold is probably not.

Alma Avalle

It’s the easiest path to a Type A personality.

Tiffany Hopkins

All the tips and tools you need—including two ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen.

Alyse Whitney

Tomato sauce pan scrapings! Blender blade hummus! A very ripe peach! Sink foods are the best, and these are the best sink foods.

Stephen Lurie

They’re sustainably packaged, smell great, and actually work.

Emily Schultz

The Bambu pot scraper has been a longtime favorite in my kitchen, but recently I’ve gained a new appreciation for it.

Michele Outland

They're cute and eco-friendly but are they up to the task?

Alex Beggs

They can't make dishwashing fun, but they can make it better.

Sarah Jampel

For the gunkiest stuff on my pots, pans, Dutch ovens, and baking sheets, I count on these steel wool pads.

Carla Lalli Music

Cleaning your kitchen is the worst, but these tools make it a lot easier.

Jesse Sparks

IT'S CALLED JUNK FOR A REASON, PEOPLE!

Alex Beggs

We talked to the declutter queen about the kitchen tools that spark the most joy.

Alex Beggs

Alex Beggs

Bon Appétit

Trade secrets on clean kitchens from clean freaks.

Elaheh Nozari

Because any investment in the illusion is practically priceless.

Alyse Whitney