Your kitchen is more like a car factory than you realize

So treat it like one!

The kitchen is the hardest working room in the house. Think about how much time you spend there, and what you ask it to do — store food, cook food, clean dishes, and be a gathering place for your household.

With so many demands of one small space, it’s no surprise that conflict often arises in the kitchen, including for one reader who wrote in with an SOS:

After probing deeper, turns out one big breakdown for this reader is no one empties the dishwasher in the morning, so dishes pile up in the sink all day. Then the sink gets so jammed it’s hard to actually DO the dishes. She has two young kids, so the demand for dishes and food is unceasing all day long.

This is such a common problem — and luckily, a solvable one.

Here’s what many people miss: your house is a machine (as we all know because we read this newsletter), and your kitchen is the most intricate part of the machine.

Imagine an engineer coming to work at Toyota to build a car, but she can’t find the right tools. Then she reme…