#1Ranchmama: Kitchen Baking area 1

Spring Cleaning is coming soon but I try to keep my kitchen fairly organized. I admit some days you can come in an can't find a clear spot to put a spoon or glass down. LOL I mean it gets bad when I am cooking! What do you expect for a main baking area only 4.5 feet long!
   I was talking to another baker about her kitchen and discussing how in a home kitchen it's hard to have a place for everything that works for you when your baking. We have to find all kinds of ways to stash what we work with to have it not only handy but where you don't have to dig though a pile of other goodies to get to it!
   A commercial kitchen has dedicated area's for whatever cooking you are doing. Well this is my baking area. This house is at least 30 years old so we aren't talking about marble this and pretty that's. Just a regular kitchen. I don't know how those wedding cake bakers and home commercial kitchens do it! Just finding refrigerator room to put dough in to chill, Cakes to chill or store overnight is a huge challenge! This kitchen has a hole for a refrigerator that only fits that 18 or 21 sf size. If I ever get lucky enough to get a commercial size with some room the whole kitchen will have to be torn apart or it get put in the garage. I still have to clean off a kitchen table to roll out a pie crust or sit down with a big bunch of stuff to chop or peel. It gets really messy when the icing gets mixed up and you need to decorate a cake or cookie ! Sticky stuff everywhere! At least in my kitchen that's the way it goes. I swear I wear 1/2 the recipe on my shirt front! That is exactly why I wear some of the rattiest looking house shirts when baking. Son in law laughs when he comes over and I have been baking. I asked him if Nikki wears 1/2 the recipe on her front also.
   Like many other home bakers this also means when it comes time to cook a meal everything has to be shoved over and stacked up so you have the room to cook food to feed the family. What a pain ! Why do families have to eat ??? I just don't understand! Baking is so much more fun than stopping everything your doing, cleaning up stuff or just finding a stopping point at all to switch gears and do the meat and potato thing!
   I laugh when my daughter or husband says it wouldn't be so bad if I would clean as I go. But I do!!! All the time. I clean mixing bowls and tools to reuse somewhere else in the process. I clean off the counter tops to keep flour, powdered sugar and other stray flying stuff out of the mixer from getting all over the place even more. They just have no clue!
My 4.5 foot baking area
measuring stuff on door
Baking powder, soda,vanilla
etc and seasonings             Sink directly to the right