Do you do dishes? [General]
2009 Jun 6
I think I have dish OCD. I do my dishes and other peoples dishes. I do the dishes and cleaning as I cook. If I have a dinner party, I do all the dishes after so that I don't have to wake up the next day to a mess of dried on food dishes or greasy water filled with soaking plates.
I have even been known to do dishes at other peoples houses when I haven't even eaten there.
I think it is a mindless way of relaxing for me. OR, I'm just crazy.
I have even been known to do dishes at other peoples houses when I haven't even eaten there.
I think it is a mindless way of relaxing for me. OR, I'm just crazy.
2009 Jun 6
I'm with Pan Bagnat on the OCD thing, although only at my own house. I like to minimize my use of pots and also wash by hand as I cook. My ideal meal is one where we sit down to eat and the kitchen looks as though nobody cooked a meal in it. I like to have the "dinner dishes" in the dishwasher before serving dessert and I never, ever go to bed with dirty dishes in the kitchen.
I think it comes down to a somewhat unrealistic expectation that countertops and sinks should be exclusively food-prep areas rather than a storage area for soiled dishes.
My wife and I have differing views on this, which is why we used to follow the rule that whoever cooks has to clean up their own mess. But now that she's at home full-time and cooks all the weekday meals, I have to pitch in when I can't use spending time with my kids as an excuse to get out of it. ;-)
I think it comes down to a somewhat unrealistic expectation that countertops and sinks should be exclusively food-prep areas rather than a storage area for soiled dishes.
My wife and I have differing views on this, which is why we used to follow the rule that whoever cooks has to clean up their own mess. But now that she's at home full-time and cooks all the weekday meals, I have to pitch in when I can't use spending time with my kids as an excuse to get out of it. ;-)
2009 Jun 8
I am alone im my apartment, so I do the dishes as well as cooking. Typically I wash up most of the implements/dishes used in the cooking process during the idle time when food is sauteeing or simmering. Everything in terms of dinnnerware goes into the dishwasher and I am left with only a couple significant pots at the end which actually need to me washed afterwards.
2009 Jun 8
I had a feeling when I read the title that this was about my dishwashing comment... I don't think I've done the dishes more than two nights in a row since Andrew & I have been together.
That said, I made a promise to him that this week, all week, I would do the dishes. I don't think I can do it.
That said, I made a promise to him that this week, all week, I would do the dishes. I don't think I can do it.
2009 Jun 8
I'm another one who cleans as I cook, though more regularly than not my husband is the one with dishpan hands.
Cooking and gardening are about the only domestic things I really do. Although now that he's become a business owner too, it's getting more difficult to use the 'too busy' excuse :)
Cooking and gardening are about the only domestic things I really do. Although now that he's become a business owner too, it's getting more difficult to use the 'too busy' excuse :)
2009 Jun 12
Re: hand-washing. ZOMG! I was having a conversation about hand-washing with coworkers the other day and they were going on about how everyone that comes into their house has to wash their hands and then apply Purrell before handling the baby.
It was very frustrating to listen to (I understand the merits of handwashing, but Purrell afterwards?) Sorry, needed to vent.
Congrats snoopy!
It was very frustrating to listen to (I understand the merits of handwashing, but Purrell afterwards?) Sorry, needed to vent.
Congrats snoopy!
2009 Jun 12
Thanks LWB. No Purel for my baby please and thank you =) A lot of childhood allergies and whatnot can be associated with over cleanliness that we here in North America seem obsessed about. If my baby wants to play in mud and bump its noggin... go right ahead! =) ... end rant... I'm not sure if I can call it a rant wit so many smiley faces.
2009 Jun 12
I do them. So does she. Our problem is that we have a bunch of stuff that "doesn't" go in the dishwasher, and other stuff that "cant". Wood cutting boards and knives come to mind. So either way we run the dishwasher and the sink. Or we put them on the counter and our great dane "cleans" them, except the knives....
2009 Jun 12
i don't know why, but that made me think of a user on here (i won't reveal the username, no worries) who was shopping for kitchen stuff once and saw a big cutting board like they have in cooking school. She thought: GREAT!! (i'll admit, i probably would have thought so too), but then when she used it the first time, she realized it was too big to fit in the sink to wash it.
hahaha i'm guessing washing a cutting board in the bath every time would be a pain. :)
hahaha i'm guessing washing a cutting board in the bath every time would be a pain. :)
2009 Jun 12
I also am from the school of "don't wake in the morning with unwashed dishes!" My spouse however grew up in a house of 7 people--where every 7 weeks you got to do the dishes for a whole week (note: for 7 people each meal!) He is a great chef but a terrible dishwasher...needless to say I usually do the dishes. BTW, that includes cleaning up the kitchen!
OliversRock
I don't do the dishes at home either! I claim to have done way more than my fair share of dishes for my lifetime at work (hey!).
The man is happy with the arrangement as he gets restaurant quality meals nearly every night, and it makes me feel appreciated. He gets romance points for dishes.
So fess up - how many of you use your mad cooking skills to get out of the dishes!