Start cleaning dishes as you cook. This leaves you with only a few at the very end.
Even just rinsing them as you go makes it easier to wash later on.
But but you’re wasting water! I just hate how much companies got a pass back in the day to waste as much as possible and push recycling and saving down to consumers…
Rinsing your dishes, taking a longer shower, doing a small load vs large load of laundry should do absolutely nothing to your conscience. Your only concern would be saving money for yourself… And voting blue lol.
https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/water/us-water-supply-and-distribution-factsheet
I built a habit out of this so when I finish cooking the kitchen is back as I found it, very useful.
also like, what the fuck kinda cooking are these people doing???
when i cook i use like… 3 pots and pans at most? frying pan, saucepan, and big pot for boiling pasta/potatoes/whatever
takes like 1 minute to handwash holy shit, and if you have a washing machine it’s even more a complete non-issue
Making something super basic like waffles or crepes is still gunna be a couple Bowls, measuring cups, utensils and a pan, as well as a bong, downstem and bowl… Add eggs and bacon make it 2 pans. 8-10 items to wash without plates and utensils to eat with.
Now let’s do steak with compound butter, potatoes, and a salad.
Cutting board, skillet, spatula, plate to salt & dehydrate steak. Cup to melt butter, garlic press. Pot for potatoes for mashing, pot for gravy if not using skillet. Spoon for tasting. Salad board, knife and spoons and Bowl to mix salad. 10-15 items and im not even high enough to be hungy enough to eat something this heavy.
One word:
Scale
Sorry but no.
Even separating dry and wet ingredients sometimes make a mess.Sorry but skill issue
You literally can use just one spoon to scoop and weigh things. Of course just dumping the ingredients in is going to make a mess, just like how just dumping them into a measuring cup is going to make a mess.
You literally can reproduce the exact flavor of a dish using a scale, you can’t do that with rough measuring tools.
That’s why I put everything in the dishwasher. Knives, scissors, sponges, brushes, nonstick pans… if you can’t survive the dishwasher then GTFO my kitchen.
Lol. I’m with ya there except for knives. It took me a lifetime to acquire a full set of very nice, very expensive kitchen knives, so I treat them with the respect they deserve.
This is why I don’t cook anything fancy.
If I can’t throw together in 2 minutes and toss it in a a cooker unattended until a timer goes off or eat it uncooked, I don’t care enough to make it.
Boring? Sure. I still enjoy my ramen with broccoli and my canned peaches oatmeal.
No, that’s not boring. That’s sad. You really need to get help.
Canned peaches are something else though.
You make them with cinnamon?Not yet but that’s a good idea to add!
The Conquest Of Bread has a section on communal kitchens which would fix this problem. So chalk another one up to capitalism
Depressed people, listen, I understand that pile of dishes is symbolically more than a pile of dishes. But trust me, get up now and do it. It will take you 5 minutes and you might even be rewarded with a hit of dopamine. Go now. You can do it; I believe in you.
This is why I still live in my parent’s house. I cook and my mom and brother take turns cleaning the dishes.
I never do recipes that take longer than half an hour to prepare. Unless I can eat multiple times from it with the whole family.
Who says you have to wash the plates? Keep it in for the next time! It’ll enhance the flavor. /s
You either need to learn to eat from the pan(it’s a one pan recipe, regardless if it is or not), cook enough for 3 days, or do impromptu fasting( absolutely for health and wellness and not because you don’t want to wash dishes)
Trick yourself into thinking you’re enjoying the journey too
I love cooking apparently
It’s a lot of fun if it’s for other people.
Even better when it’s also with other people
Some of my favorite parties are when the guest show up at noon and we spend all day cooking, drinking and listening to music.
Then, when we’re all hammered around dinner time, we have all this amazing food to eat!
For sure, cooking can be the best. I’d love to cook for me and a couple people on the regular. But cooking professionally would get real tiring real quick.
Big big brain move for life
Every time I make a meal from Hello Fresh my kitchen looks like a bomb exploded.
10 minutes!? Slow down and enjoy it!
Eating slower also pays off by reducing the chance for acid reflux.
Depression single parenting - paper plates and disposable plasticware. It allowed me to cook and feed us without the additional piling of dishes on top of everything else. If nothing else, the one pan got washed before cooking again.
Except for me at the end I don’t even feel like eating anymore
10 minutes? Found the American
us europeans are capable of it as well, believe it or not.
Everybody laugh at this loser who chews
