Do you have problems with flour? I save the foam flats from store and place in sink, to season food and then flour. But in spite of hell I get flour on the whole flappin kitchen. 1 tsp of flour and I can screw up the kitchen.
Years ago the kitchen was outside the house, a dog run. I've heard it was because if the kitchen burned you would save the damn house. I submit that another reason was to keep the damn flour out of house.
Do you save, strain your cooking oil? I only use the oil from my deep fryer's over. The little bit I use in skillets gets put on dog food or in a jar for trash.