Cabinets Impact Healthy Kitchen Designs

Perhaps the trickiest part of creating a healthy kitchen has to do with choosing the right cabinets. Cabinetry offers its own unique set of concerns, such as the use of proper wood, paint and adhesives. Indeed, there are plenty of places for cabinetry to veer into an unhealthy direction if not handled properly.

For the designer, paying close attention to cabinet choices is key when designing a healthy kitchen. After all, the last thing the green, health-conscious client wants is to spend thousands of dollars on ventilation, sanitary surfaces or flooring, only to find the most expensive component of the kitchen be the least healthy.

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Patricia Gaylor, a New Jersey designer whose green pedigree includes designing homes for the International Builders Show, notes there's a resistance to commit to green design by some manufacturers.

"It's our social responsibility, as designers, to maintain the movement. It's our responsibility to our clients to demand more green products," she comments. "It's especially important in the kitchen and bath when specifying certified woods and hardwoods."

In the past, typically small companies and custom shops were the only places to find green cabinetry. Now, most large cabinet companies offer green options. St. Charles Cabinetry identifies itself as eco-friendly because it has a high recycled-content percentage, zero Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) off-gassing in manufacturing and use, and includes integrated compact fluorescent lighting.

As in most green topics, thirdparty certification is crucial to help contractors, builders and consumers discern what companies are providing woods grown and harvested in an environmentally sound way. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international not-for-profit membership-based organization with the mission of promoting responsible stewardship of the world's forests. It works to certify forests that meet that set criteria. What that means to cabinetmakers is that they can be sure that their wood is coming from a sustainably managed forest.

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Be fresh be healthy, with healthy kitchen

Fresh and clean kitchen looks from the picture below, the kitchen design from Mint Value Kitchen selecting bright colors are not like the kitchen in general, bright green, red, beige and white dominates the kitchen room, there are also brown colors but not a lot just as a sweetener. Furniture  such as kitchen cabinets designed in minimalist without losing the function of the kitchen itself, a chimney is the main condition for a healthy kitchen criterion, also note how their placement so that smoke can be completely wasted.

Be fresh be healthy, with healthy kitchen.

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Let's Clean Kitchen,

Time Lebaran yesterday carefully make your kitchen looks a mess? Do not worry, you can clean it with vinegar. Yes, vinegar, which you normally use as a flavoring dishes, can also be used to clean the kitchen. Here's how:

* If using automatic dishwashing appliance, you can add luster to your tableware. How, select menu regular cycle (without soap). When the machine has filled with water, open the door of the machine, then add a cup of vinegar. Continue washing until the end.

* To avoid blockage of water channels in the sink due to sediment food scraps, pour a half cup of baking soda into the channel. Then pour a cup of vinegar as well. Leave for a few moments. Flush with a gallon of boiling water. Do this on a regular basis.

* To be re-clean the microwave, stir in two cups of water with half cup of vinegar in a special microwave bowl. Place the bowl in the microwave and turn on full speed for 3-4 minutes until the water is boiling. Once completed, let the microwave in a closed state for a few minutes for the steam release attached crusts. After that open, move the bowl, and clean the microwave with a cloth.

* To remove oil stains from kitchen walls and parts of the stove, pour the vinegar on a cloth and wipe.

* Coffee and tea stains on drinking equipment will easily be lost thanks to a mixture of salt and vinegar.

* The smell of garlic that attach to the hand would easily disappear if you rub your hands with vinegar before and after slicing onions.

* To be kept clean cutting board, rub with vinegar.

* To be free from oil tableware and smell, add a tablespoon of vinegar in warm soap solution.

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Beautiful Kitchens Begin New Year

At the beginning of new year 2010, there were only renewed desire for more comfortable home look occupied. When on Christmas Day 2009 yesterday, you have to dress the outside of the house and of course the living room, now your turn to fix the part that is almost forgotten, the kitchen!

Located who often are behind or in one corner of the house is hidden, making the kitchen is considered not necessary "primp". Though the kitchen is clean and comfortable, you too would be more enthusiasm created a new menu creations for the family.

Customize with Character
Ideally, the style of kitchen created in harmony with the interior of the house and that would be appropriate to the character and personality of the owner of the house.

Dress clean and beautiful kitchen is indeed tricky. The amount it costs to renovate were highly dependent on the design and materials used. However, it does not mean you have to deplete savings to the firm. Costs can be saved, provided you know how to work around this.

The very first step you should do is to match needs with spacious kitchen that will be good for you to accommodate all activities and cooking equipment.

The next step, choose fire-resistant material for furniture and heat around the stove, such as marble, granite, ceramic, and stainless steel. When funds are limited, you can be creative by using ceramic fragments with a variety of colors. The result is certainly more unique and artistic.

When furnishings that there is still good, it feels you only need to replace the atmosphere of the kitchen by resetting the location of furniture and give a new color on the furniture. Repainting should be done on walls and ceilings of the kitchen to give a different nuance. That way, a lot of money to be saved instead of buying new furniture for the kitchen.

Keep your kitchen get direct sun light because sunlight can kill bacteria and prevent the seeds of rats and cockroaches. Do not forget to put the vents in the kitchen to avoid poisoning from smoke gases from the stove. If you have a kitchen in the middle of the house and did not allow adequate ventilation puts, use the cooker hood to draw air.

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Frugality In The Kitchen Tricks

One simple and easy tips in dealing with rising prices is to save money. Saves pengelaran can be done by changing wasteful habits. Frugality does not mean cheap. These simple steps can help overcome excessive spending in the kitchen sector.

1. Shopping list. By making a list, you have a guide when shopping. Remember, there is a big difference between the desired and needed. Focus on what the family needed. In traditional markets, you can haggle prices, so you would be more efficient. Write down all the spending and use as a reference when going to shop at a later time. Bring money sparingly. More money can be a temptation to buy a redundant.

2. Refrigerator. Refrigerator is one of the electronic appliances in the home of the most draining. The lower temperature (colder), the more energy required for cooling the refrigerator. Adjust the temperature of one level above the median line. Cooling the drinking water in the fridge can also be an electric frugality tips because you no longer need to use dispenser. Too often open and close the refrigerator also resulted in wastage of electricity.

3. Cooking oil. Plan a family menu for the week ahead. For example the menu of fried chicken Sunday, Monday goldfish, Tuesday pecel catfish. All the main ingredients that can be fried first Sunday, after it is stored in the refrigerator. If you want menghidangkannya, just give additional seasoning and cooking with remaining oil. This will help save the use of cooking oil by 30 percent because you can sort of oil is still clean, somewhat clean, and it was dirty. Remember, do not fry with the same oil for more than 2 times. Excessive heating will cause cancer in fatty acid oil content originator.

4. Cooking by other means. Another option is to cook by boiling or steaming. In this way, in addition to saving, also much more healthy than frying.

5. Gas with a pot press (high pressure). Cooking with presto pan can reduce gas consumption due to rapid ripening process. With high pressure, the material does not require long cooking over a fire. Factors vapor barrier also helps maintain the nutritional content of food. Own it can be said to form kitchen investment.

6. Herbs. Take advantage of vacant land in home gardens to grow various herbs. In addition to fresh and pesticide-free, you also can save expenses. If needed, live quotes

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Narrow Maximizing Kitchen Space

Currently, land houses in urban areas more fully and more narrow. Maximizing existing space is very wise. One trick is widely used to make all the room serves as a convenient location together is to make the kitchen a room that is functional, stylish, but still comfortable. You can order a mini kitchen efficient maximum.

"Today the trend is to use the kitchen as the location for the entertainment of friends or close relatives. Kitchens are often combined with other rooms, so that communication can be open. Or to be a place the child for her homework," explained Siulina Mega, architects and interior designers , the launch of a built-in hob stove latest Modena, some time ago. To create the impression of the room a more spacious kitchen, try the following tips:

1. Choose small kitchen device or medium. Manufacturers of kitchen devices usually offer a choice of sizes is quite diverse for the refrigerator, oven, stove, and others. Choose small kitchen device or medium. Your room will look more spacious.

Another solution you can do is to fill the kitchen with a built-in devices, in a sense integrated on the kitchen itself. This will give the impression of the kitchen a more stylish, roomy, and comfortable. For example, using built-in hob stove that integrates with cabinets under the kitchen. Stoves built-in hob has been designed with today's beautiful to give an interesting impression. For example, a built-in hob stove and Tecnica Alluminio from Modena that was launched some time ago. Gas stove built-in hob-date was made more secure than conventional stoves. "Stove Alluminio and Tecnica have a gas safety. When a sudden fire extinguished in the burner, and no combustion occurs, the gas valve is immediately closed. So to maximize the use of gas, is also safer than the gas leak. Plus, more concise, because it need not cigarette lighter, "said Lanny Kurniawan, Customer Management Division Head Modena.

2. Harmoniskan colors, from wall paint to the kitchen. Select color cream for kitchen cabinets in order to make the room a more spacious impression. If you want to add color to the room, try to select the color bright green, blue, or yellowish. Light colors will reflect light, thereby creating a more spacious impression.

3. Choose the storage cabinets are made of glass plates on the front to show off all your plate collection. Try the cabinets are made of glass only at the top, leave the lower part remains solid to focus our eyes fixed on the top.

4. Hang the cooking device can make the drawers and cabinets more relieved. Hanging pots and pans at the top you can easily reach to make it easy cooking show, while leaving space in the roomy kitchen drawers or cabinets for other items.

5. If possible, you can embed the lights in the floor or parquet wood to create the impression of light on the bottom and brighten the area that is usually dark.

6. Patterned floors can enhance the field. Try selecting tiles with diamond patterns that consist of two colors. This pattern will create the illusion that the floor is wider than what is there.

7. One trick that you can count on is the selection of the sink are small or medium. Then, find boards cut into the size of length greater than the width of the sink, so it can be anchored, it means you make the room airy. After not being used, you can keep cutting back boards.

8. Buy the tools to cook a more appropriate size. For example, toasters bread if you need a slot or enough for 4 loaves of bread slot two is enough? Do you really need a food processor or a cappuccino machine? Does this kind of stuff you'll use every day? Most people only use 1.5 of the goods that they have in the kitchen. If you feel the goods you have not used too often, maybe you can store in warehouse or better give to people who more often use it. Then enjoy the rest of the field of space you've created from nothingness goods earlier.

9. Maximize the light that comes into the room from the sidelines ventilation by not using a lot of material on the curtain. Simply use just vitrage or fabric at the top of the window instead. Strive as much light into the room.

10. Cleanliness is also very necessary taken into account. Choose the cookware that is easy to clean, durable, and has a maximal function.

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Inviting Poison Cooking Mistakes

Many people are reluctant to eat at places that are less clean for fear of poisoning. In fact, the actual food poisoning can be started from the kitchen itself.
Based on data YLKI, trends of food poisoning cases increased sharply since 2004. About 45 percent occur on school children. And, until now, cases of food poisoning still a lot happening one after another in various areas. The reasons are varied. There are as haphazard and not a little snack as well as eating refined home kitchen.
"Research has proven that it turns out people are not too careful in preparing food as they should be," says Janet B. Anderson, RD, clinical professor of nutrition and food sciences at Utah University. "Many people believe that they are already doing the correct procedure, when it is not."
Here are some common mistakes that so far we do in the kitchen, which eventually can cause food poisoning.
Just wash the fruit whose skin can be eaten. In fact, fruit skins and seeds are not edible, such as bananas and melons for instance, can be just as dangerous. The bacteria can move from the outer skin to the flesh of fruit through the cutting blades. In conclusion, all kinds of fruit should be washed. It is recommended that: Peel the skin also tomatoes, strawberries, and peppers after washing.


Leave leftovers on the stove. Leaving leftovers in the pot on the stove, though with the aim to keep food warm, it will ruin the food. Warming the food-which we think can reduce the possibility of poison-it gives the opposite result. Some toxins are formed precisely because the food is warmed. The correct rule: store leftovers in the refrigerator. Warm when meal is almost here. It is recommended that: Place the still-warm leftovers in small containers and not too high in order to cool food faster. Do not fill the refrigerator with a container of food. Why? Because the fridge is full so can not efficiently remove the cold air.
Roast meat until red color disappears. Research at Kansas University, said that our eyes can not be used as a measure of whether or not cooked piece of meat. For example, the frozen meat would rapidly change color to brown when cooked, although not yet completely cooked. Conversely, some types of fresh minced meat can remain pink when it reaches perfect ripeness.


The only way to know the correct level of maturity of meat is to use a meat thermometer. Meat is cooked when the temperature was 71 degrees Celsius or more when cooked. It is recommended: If you feel that cooked meat is not hot enough and we want to cook it longer, wash first before re-use a meat thermometer to avoid contamination.


Jump to wash vegetables. When bringing home fresh vegetables from the supermarket, we so want to clean it and store it directly in the refrigerator. However, this practice can actually cause the growth of mold and microbes. The cause is moisture left over from the washing water, said Linda J Harris, PhD, director of food safety research Western Institute, University of California. Instead, clean the vegetables just before we process it. It is recommended that: Peel the outer layer of lettuce and cabbage. In part this is the most common contaminants. Also remove any other parts. Do not use soap because it can leave harmful residues.

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