Wannabe chefs!!!

[suedent]

Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased that my sons enjoy cooking. It's nice to have a meal prepared for me. But why do they need to use every available saucepan & utensil?

I blame the TV chefs, they appear whisking up these wonderful creations, throwing food around with abandon, with no thought to the washing up. The difference being, they have a team of paid minions to clear up the wreckage.

I don't think my boys appreciate that cleaning up after them is eating into time I could be spending wading through Parish Records. A far more agreeable task.

Sue

[Ladkyis]

Excuse me!? cleaning up after them? They pay you, of course, for this domestic work.

House rule no. 5. Whoever cooks does the washing up. My kids bought me a dishwasher on the strength of that rule

[suedent]

I would love a dishwasher but unfortunately there is no space for one in my kitchen.

I try & console myself by the thought that it would only generate arguments about whose turn it is to empty/fill the dishwasher!

[busyglen]

I would love a dishwasher but unfortunately there is no space for one in my kitchen.

I try & console myself by the thought that it would only generate arguments about whose turn it is to empty/fill the dishwasher!

We have a small one (my hubby insisted that we have one when we had a new kitchen fitted 2 years ago) but it is rarely used. I can't be bothered to load it all up and then later, have to take it all out again and put it away. As we take turns in washing up, it's not really a problem....and it's his job on Sundays as I cook a full Sunday roast each week when his mother comes, so sometimes he puts it in the dishwasher. But.....guess who empties it?? Of course...me!!

Glenys

[MarkJ]

My wife has a dishwasher - me ;)

Mark

[Mike_E]

House rule no. 5. Whoever cooks does the washing up. My kids bought me a dishwasher on the strength of that rule

Not in my house.
Wife cooks - I wash up
I cook - I wash up
At weekends, no one cooks, we eat out, or buy in, after all, we both work full time and need time off from domestic chores.

I won't have a dishwasher in the house ta muchly, besides I built the kitchen with only room for a fridge freezer and lots of storage. Washing machine and tumble dryer (tumble dryer used once in a blue moon) live in the utility room we had built on.


Mike

[Ladkyis]

Given the choice between getting my hands into hot water with grease and washing up liquid or putting the dishes into the dish washer, popping in the tablet closing the door and pushing a button I know which one I prefer. And as for "putting it all away afterwards" well that has to be done with all clean dishes but I don't have a soggy teatowel at the end of it because my dishes are all dry and clean when they come out of the dish washer.

and not having enough room!!! :confused: my kitchen is 10 feet long and 7 feet wide so that argument doesn't wash either. |scold| It is simply a matter of learning a new habit, dirty dishes get rinsed under the tap - sometimes - and stacked into the dishwasher. When it is full you pop the tablet in and switch on then go and read a few chapters of your book or better still spend the washing up time on your puter talking to us here|biggrin|

[busyglen]

The only problem I have with that is that there are only two of us, and so don't usually generate enough washing up to use the dishwasher....unless I save it up for the next meal. Now that we have a new boiler with instant hot water, instead of heating a tankful all the time, and not using the dishwasher...our electricity bill is coming down.....If only I could get into the habit of not leaving my 'puter on stand-by all day (or even on) we would save more! :o

Glenys

[A Lee]

Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased that my sons enjoy cooking. It's nice to have a meal prepared for me. But why do they need to use every available saucepan & utensil?

SueMy husband tells me that that is my problem. I also seem to spread myself out over every available surface!

He is trying to train me to 'wash-up-as-I-go-along'!

We don't have a dishwasher - we try and take it in turns.

As for cleaning up after your sons, I don't know how old they are, but if they are old enough to cook - and make an extreme mess - surely they are old enough to clean up after themselves! Although, I suppose you're lucky to have children who've got enough time and inclination to cook for you!

Otherwise, get them to help you search through Parish Registers!:)

Alison

[suedent]

Of my three sons the best trained (#1) has unfortunately left home for Uni. #2 son seems to chip plates & mugs just by looking at them. Sometimes it's just easier on the purse to clean up myself.

I'm well aware that this may well have been a ploy on his part, do the job so badly that you don't get asked again!

#3 son shows signs of promise, he is beginning to notice when cleaning needs doing without being prompted.

As #1 lives in Plymouth I do occasionally call upon him to do look ups in the West Devon Record Office. He will do it, but his heart really isn't in it. I generally receive a long ranting email bemoaning the writing skills of various clerics!!!

He can't understand my point of view that deciphering the scrawl is part of the fun.

I think my daughter may be the one to continue the research. She was only about 10 when I took her to her first Polperro FHS AGM. At one point I realised she wasn't by my side. I went looking and found her on the fiche reader looking through the family trees trying to spot names she recognized. A girl after my own heart :-)

Sue

[Ed Bradford]

There is just the two of us now but we still use the dishwasher. ............Ed

[BeeE586]

There is just one of me and I stack my small dishwasher and switch on when full. I think it is what I miss most when I am in the 'van. Standing at the sink with a bowl of water and dirty pots seems such a waste of time - like so many of us here, I have better things to do.

Eileen

[Ladkyis]

I think that getting used to stacking the dishwasher and only turning it on when it's full is what people find hard to get used to. They worry that if they leave the breakfast dishes until the evening then they could "go off" or something. Believe me the temperature that the water in the dishwasher gets to will kill most bacteria AND the stuff is dried with hot air so you don't get cross contamination from a soggy tea towel.

If, like me, you have excema lurking then the last thing you need is to either use rubber gloves which sets my excema off a treat or to plunge your hands into hot soapy water - which also gets my excema going.

I can spend the washing up time happily answering threads on here or even - are you reading this Bo-peep - doing another domestic chore!:eek:

I have been known to vacuum clean while the dishes are doing - I got better

[flashstep]

not quite handy in the kitchen as women, we like to cause a ruckus as well.