How To Clean Wood Cabinets And Make Them Shine Cleaning your wood kitchen cabinets is part of having a home clean. With drips and spills that can accumulate over time, wood kitchen cabinets take a battering every day. Kitchen cabinets become filthy very quickly. When you cook, you splatter grease all over them from cake batter to olive oil. They are continuously exposed to filth and grease from cooking meals,...