When cooking you need everything close to hand, so placing the worktop savers near the oven and hob should mean you can stay in one place and still have everything within reach. If your kitchen is designed well your worktop savers should be on one side of the oven and hob and near your fridge and the main cabinets of frequently used food. This means you can prepare your ingredients easily on the worktop savers and then start to cook. You won’t be carrying food around, including the chopped items from the worktop savers, so you also make less mess.
The well-designed kitchen has worktop savers on one side of the oven and hob, and then a clear worktop space on the other side of the hob with the sink near that. This means that dirty pans from the cooked food is removed to the opposite side of the hob from the worktop savers and is ready to go in the sink. The dishwasher is near the sink on the furthest side from the worktop savers.
If you have the right layout in your kitchen it should have the fridge and food cabinets on one side near the worktop savers, then the oven and hob, followed by a clear worktop space, the sink and dishwasher and cabinets for cutlery, crockery and pots and pans all in that order. Even if you have a small kitchen, this layout with the worktop savers strategically planned can be arranged neatly. You need to be able to prepare food in a clean space with the worktop savers on one side of the oven, then move used pans from the oven towards the sink after cooking.
If you’ve been stuck with a badly designed kitchen, placing the worktop savers and your food in the right position on the opposite side of the hob to the sink will still help. In any size of kitchen, worktop savers are attractive and also help keep everything clean. It’s easy to lift the worktop savers over to the sink to clean them, and it’s essential to keep worktop savers thoroughly hygienic.
Worktop savers aren’t just handy for cutting and chopping ingredients. While you’re cooking you’ll find worktop savers a clean and convenient place to rest the spoons and other equipment you’re using to stir recipes simmering in the pans. You’ll be surprised how tough even the most attractive worktop savers can be, even if you need to remove pans from high heat-rings to rest off the hob.
