Pests can enter from any vulnerable point of your property. Though, they can start infesting anyplace, but the most common area for few common pests is the ‘kitchen’. There are things you can do before you call for any Exterminator in Kansas City or from anyplace around.
Let’s quickly do the following to keep all kinds of kitchen pests away:
- Cover or Lock All Your Food
The best way to restrict pests in kitchen is to store food in glass containers with tight lids. You can also lock all your food in proper shelves or in your refrigerator. Open or uncovered food is a welcome call to all sorts of pests. Once they start feeding on food, it would be slowly difficult for you to control their infestation.
- Clean Your Countertop Daily
Kitchen countertops get dirty daily. Most of the cooks avoid cleaning kitchen tops with soapy water. However, cleaning your kitchen countertop with soapy water is a must as it sheds off ants and other bacteria that may have been on it due to food residues.
- Avoid Keeping Unwashed Utensils
Yes, it is understood that sometimes you get so tired after a party that you leave everything as it is in your kitchen sink. Once in a while, this can be ignored, but if you have habit of keeping unwashed utensils particularly at night, then you are in a serious trouble of pests. Unwashed utensils have food remains and emit smell as a call to pests.
- Clean Daily-Use Utensils Regularly
Utensils that are used daily are frying pans, stirrers, cooking spoons, cookers, knives and many others. These utensils not only ask for regular cleaning, but intense cleaning. Food remains are common on these utensils almost daily and this can welcome more and more number of pests to your kitchen.
- Avoid Leaving Food
Some people have a very poor habit of leaving food in dining plates. Not only this, they also leave their dining plates anywhere. The food remains in such plates start emitting some strange smell to which pests easily get attracted to. Hence, avoid this habit before it puts you in serious trouble of pests.
- Cover All Your Kitchen Trash
Few people have a habit of accumulating kitchen trash in small plastic wrappers or bags and place these on the countertops. This habit is a clear call to increase the number of pests in your kitchen. Make a genuine habit of throwing all the collected trash in the can and cover it tightly with a lid.
- Use Homemade Solutions
If you are really worried about using chemical sprays in the kitchen area, you can make homemade solutions to keep away some common pests. Certain ingredients that can be used in homemade solutions are white vinegar, table salt, neem oil, eucalyptus oil, mint oil, turmeric powder and others.
- Use Herbal Pesticides
Herbal pesticide is a good choice for kitchen area. Kitchen is a place that deals with food and food items. This asks us to refrain from using any toxic chemical solution or spray. Yes, it is true that most of the herbal pesticides are not harsh on certain pests, but if, we can get rid of pests using these pesticides, why be too harsh on them.
- Clean Your Refrigerator
Refrigerator cleaning should be made a mandatory process every month. If your refrigerator is used most of the times by kids or seniors or anyone who has a disorganized mind, then cleaning it should be your priority every month. Sometimes, small red cockroaches start breeding inside the refrigerator on stored food.
- Clean All Electronic Kitchen Appliances
If you are using microwave ovens, OTGs, stoves, electric cookers or fryers, toasters, etc. daily, then cleaning all should become a mandatory habit. An Exterminator in Kansas City or any other from a nearby place will also suggest you to do the same.
