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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At some point I learned to clean as I cook, washing each item immediately as I'm done with the step that uses it. If you can get in the habit, it's so much easier. Never a huge stack to clean and nothing sits there getting stuck on the pot/plate/whatever. Dishes are done before sitting down to eat and there's only a couple when you're done eating.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You don't need any more than 2 cooking vessels be that a pot and pan or 2 pots. If you use more stop it! Also do the bloody dishes I ain't your mother! How can 1 person use 4 plates and 12 forks before dinner in 1 day!?! How!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can 1 person use 4 plates and 12 forks before dinner in 1 day!?! How!

I have been asking my wife this for 3 years now. She still hasn't been able to give a satisfactory answer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey fuck you. "BECAUSE!!!!!" is a perfectly satisfactory answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe for you, but I'm the one who does the dishes, if every plate and half the cups are dirty in a single day when I've been at work, then I'd like to know how 2 meals used 6 plates and a dozen cups.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What are you on about? Just the other night I had a pan for roasting seeds, a pot for building a sauce, a pan for cooking protein and another pot for cooking my starch. And that's just a Tuesday meal. If I made a dedicated effort to be minimal with vessels, I'd still have to wait for them to cool for cleaning. Also, to all the clean while you cook advocates on here, that's easier to do with a known preparation. When you've Just downloaded a new recipe and you have no idea what you are doing, your often don't have the bandwidth to leave the project and start cleaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Protein and starch together could even put them in a roasting dish instead, and a sauce pot.

I dunno abouts seeds? What seeds are you roasting and how was this incorperated into the meal?

Im one guy so my food is simple one pot meals usually or two pot meals if I get fancy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, to all the clean while you cook advocates on here, that's easier to do with a known preparation. When you've Just downloaded a new recipe and you have no idea what you are doing, your often don't have the bandwidth to leave the project and start cleaning.

Then maybe read the recipe before you start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just have a photographic memory!!! It's easy!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Bruh recipes take on average like a few minutes to read through. No one's asking anyone to memorize anything, just read maybe two or three hundred words before starting to cook so you have an idea of what you're doing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As someone with ADHD, using too many dishes is pretty standard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My roommate uses every dish in the house daily. Idk how, it's ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How can 1 person use 4 plates and 12 forks before dinner in 1 day!?! How!

Don't judge me!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even just rinsing before food dries/hardens helps a lot for washing later. That's what I do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dishwashers are a necessity in the kitchen if you have the space. I almost never hand wash a dish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some dishes that should only be handwashed though. Most knives, pots, and pans shouldn't be dishwashed. Even the ones that claim to be dishwasher safe will not last as long if dishwashed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it can't be cleaned in the dishwasher, it isnt for me. Dont care what the label says. I put every dish through the crucible. If it melts, it's trashed. If it cracks, it's trashed. No pussy dishes in my kitchen. Get in the magic scalding water box and quit your bitchin'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amen! If they don't survive the dishwasher then it's just nature culling the weak from the pack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I try to just not buy things that can't be put in the dishwasher.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the food was 🔥!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. My Dad is literally a unspoken chef.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is my wife. She can make some amazing meals, but never seems to be able to clean as she cooks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me after every Hello Fresh meal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hello Mess!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What really baffles me is how people that have dishwashers manage to do this. Like, use bowl/whisk/cutting board/whatever > put in dishwasher. That way, all you have to do is wash your knives while everything else cooks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What, and bend down?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's already full of clean things that I haven't got round to emptying out, yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Any meal worth eating is cooked like this 🤤

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's me after just making toast with scrambled eggs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is my gf in the Kitchen. Well, this is her in any room in the flat. Somewhat frustrating because she sure as shit didn't treat the flat she lived in with her mates like that...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit that's my fiancee when she makes spaghetti. She's a professional chef. I have no idea how that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because she's used to having someone taking care of cleaning after her. Nothing unusual for people who work in the field (used to be my case).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The disappointment on his face is the same as mine after too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is absolutely me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If that's how your kitchen ends up after cooking, I think you need to learn how to clean as you cook. That, or just stay outta my way.