Kitchen Cleaning Schedule

Daily (5 minutes)

• Wipe counters after cooking.
• Do or load dishes.
• Empty the bin if full.
• Sweep visible crumbs.

Weekly (30 minutes)

• Mop floor.
• Clean stovetop properly.
• Wipe outside of appliances.
• Throw out old food from fridge.
• Disinfect sink and taps.

Monthly

• Deep-clean fridge (shelves out, wipe down).
• Clean oven.
• Run a dishwasher cleaning cycle.
• Wipe inside cupboards.

Use the generator to share these tasks across the people in your household, with rotation so the same person isn't doing the oven every month.

The kitchen is 60% of the perceived cleanliness of a home

Visitors don't notice an unmade bed; they notice a sink full of dishes from across a hallway. If you only have time for one room to be schedule-tight, make it the kitchen. The good news is the kitchen also responds best to small daily inputs — five minutes a day genuinely keeps it from spiralling.

Kitchen cleaning order that actually works

1. Clear the surfaces (move everything off counters).
2. Dishes / dishwasher first.
3. Wipe counters and stovetop with the same cloth.
4. Sink last (it cleans the cloth on the way through).
5. Floor last of all.

How fairness is calculated

Behind the scenes, every chore gets a numeric weight from its effort (small / medium / large), frequency, and a difficulty modifier for the genuinely unpleasant tasks. The algorithm distributes weight across people, not chore counts — three counter wipes do not equal one toilet scrub, and the schedule respects that. Annoying tasks rotate separately so the same person never gets the bin two weeks running. Full details on the methodology page.

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