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#1 2009-10-31 9:14 am
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Kitchen Pet Peeves....
I love my wife but she has this habit in the kitchen that just grosses me out to no end.
She takes pans and pots full of left over food and puts them in the sink, fills them with water, or even worse, fills the sink up with water, and then lets the mess fester for days.
It's smurfing disgusting and a constant source of conflict because I absolutely refuse to deal with washing something if I have to reach down into putrid, filthy, bacteria laden water to wash a pan or pot.
The really galling thing is that we have a perfectly good Pit Bull around who considers it a treat to get to lick out pots and pans. The dog gets things quite clean then it's a snap to wash them up properly.
It's not just my wife, every woman I have ever lived with has had this gross habit.
I just can't understand it.
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#2 2009-10-31 10:23 am
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
I do it, too. Not for days, though, but overnight. I find it a lot easier to wash once all the dried, crusty stuff softens up in the water -- swish, it's clean, instead of scrub, scrub, scrub, curse, scrub, swear, scrub...
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#3 2009-10-31 10:25 am
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
Dogs are definitely the way to scour a pan.
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#4 2009-10-31 10:49 am
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
I'm with pithy.
If you leave a pot on too long, the layer of solid cooked-on mess can also be softened by boiled salt water in the pan.
But, yeah, days? Ew. You're asking for flies.
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#5 2009-10-31 11:47 am
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#6 2009-10-31 2:06 pm
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
macnuke wrote:
If my dog could do that she would! But she is way too big.
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#7 2009-10-31 5:43 pm
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
I also agree that soaking does make cleaning easier, but not for days. Personally, I tend to rinse the items as soon as I'm done with them, and stick them immediately into the dishwasher. The trick is to get to it before the bad stuff dries in. But when that doesn't work, soaking is your best bet.
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#8 2009-10-31 6:00 pm
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macnuke wrote:
Submit that to cuteoverload.com!
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#9 2009-10-31 11:10 pm
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
I will leave the dishes on the counter and not in a sink full of water, that's just disgusting.
if you find you need to soak your dishes you might just try doing the washing up straight away, rather then leaving them for hours and hours.
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#10 2009-11-01 12:15 am
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
At my house, it's just the opposite. My wife can't stand for any dish to be in the sink for more than a few minutes. I, on the other hand, recognize that sometimes an hour or two of soaking can be helpful - especially with stuff like pasta or scorched cheese.
Our dog would lick the pots, but my wife finds that totally disgusting. It doesn't matter that the dishwasher has a sanitize option on it.
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#11 2009-11-01 3:27 am
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A sanitize option? Isn't "sanitizing" the came as "washing?" And isn't that what all dishwashers do?
Moreover, why are you people even having this debate? Shouldn't the hired help be seeing to the dishes?
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#12 2009-11-01 6:13 am
Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
Maybe she's trying to give you hint - that maybe she wants you to wash them sometimes before it becomes days.
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#13 2009-11-01 6:14 am
Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
Bren wrote:
A sanitize option? Isn't "sanitizing" the came as "washing?" And isn't that what all dishwashers do?
Moreover, why are you people even having this debate? Shouldn't the hired help be seeing to the dishes?
Sanitize I believe does a long cycle of high temperature steam in addition to the regular cycle.
I always use it on my dishwasher.
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#14 2009-11-01 7:51 am
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Re: Kitchen Pet Peeves....
resedit wrote:
Maybe she's trying to give you hint - that maybe she wants you to wash them sometimes before it becomes days.
I do my share of the cleanup but if she dumps everything in the sink and submerges them it;s her problem there after.
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#15 2009-11-01 9:28 am
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I live alone but I don't, and neither does my dad, and that's the kind of thing my mom would do to drop hints.
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