When working with food, it is extremely important that you have a clean kitchen to work in. During food preparation, you want to have all of your surfaces as clean as possible. Dirty work areas become the perfect area for bacteria growth. Some of these bacterias may be harmful to humans if consumed. This should be the last thing you want.

A clean kitchen is also important during food preparation to help prevent cross-contamination. Yes, this is most important when working within the food industry. But even during home cooking, you want to prevent cross-contamination, especially between raw meats and other ingredients. This is again how dangerous it is to humans to eat a selection of raw meats.

To keep yourself and others safe, you want to keep your kitchen clean before, during and after cooking. This will not take much time out of your day, so do not take the risk and prepare any meals in a dirty kitchen.