The Best Tools and Gadgets to Keep Your Kitchen Clean

You could always use a little help around the kitchen.

Specialty cleaning tools are a major benefit when you’re cleaning any part of your home, but your kitchen is especially important to keep sanitary—and can get so much dirtier than other locations—so if you’re going to invest in these products anywhere, that’s where it should be. Try these kitchen-cleaning devices for a spotless kitchen, no matter how messy of a cook (or eater) you are.

The coolest tools for cleaning the kitchen floor

Let’s start with the floor, which needs some real attention. Full of footprints, grease splatter, crumbs, and all kinds of other debris, it’s probably one of the messiest places in the house. Let’s fix that. 

• Try a robot vacuum/mop combo to keep up with the crumbs and sticky spots between deep cleans. The Eureka E10s ($599.99) is a little spendy, but has a self-emptying feature, which makes it even more hands-off. For a more affordable option, try the Tikom G8000 ($159.99), which cleans in straight rows instead of the zig-zag pattern that other LiDAR-powered models use. 

• You’ve seen the O-Cedar EasyWring mop-and-wringer set ($49.99) all over Cleantok, but it’s time to get one of your own. It easily wrings out the mop so you’re not slopping too much water on the floor, plus it separates the clean and dirty water, so you’re only putting clean water down when you scrub.

Gadgets to clean the rest of the kitchen

As for everything else, here are gadgets that will save you time and give everything in your kitchen a superior clean. 

• Pan scrapers, like this five-pack from Matscover ($5.99), get the crust and gunk off your pans without having to leave them dirtied-up in the sink and without damaging the cookware.

• The OXO Good Grips kitchen appliance cleaning set ($10.99) is a multitool for cleaning blenders, mesh screens, juicers, coffee makers, thin containers, sinks, grout, and more. There’s a loop brush, an angled brush, and a scraper, all combined into one compact little tool.

• The Rubbermaid Reveal power scrubber ($22.44) is a scaled-down version of those viral electric scrubbing brushes you see all over social media, making it just right for cleaning sinks, tile grout, microwaves, and small spaces around the kitchen.

• The Angry Mama microwave steam cleaner ($5.98) can be filled with vinegar and water, then nuked for five to seven minutes to create a steam that removes caked-on gunk and water stains from inside your microwave. Cleaning influencers say it makes cleaning easier, but the hilarious expression on the angry mama’s face is worth the buy on its own.

• Silicone refrigerator liners ($7.59 for seven) make cleaning the fridge so much easier. Instead of pulling all your food out to scrub the caked-on spills from your shelving, just remove these easy-rinse pads and wash them instead.

• While you’re at it, get silicone air fryer pots, too ($6.99 for two). Instead of having to clean your air fryer every time you use it (or falling prey to phony viral air fryer cleaning “hacks”), you can just pop this in and out of the fryer and the dishwasher, leaving your appliance clean.

• The Airdeer automatic trash can ($219.99) is a must-have if you throw away a lot of food scraps or other fragrant, dirty things. It packs your trash, seals the bag, and adds a new bag to the container for you with the touch of a button, so odors and droplets stay locked away.

• A self-draining silicone faucet drip catcher ($9.49) keeps the counter space behind your sink clean by allowing drips from your soap and sponges to go straight into the basin. When it gets dirty itself, just give it a rinse.