• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    20 days ago

    Cleaning as you go is the secret to making cooking fun, more or less.

    I’m trying to teach my son this concept. He loves to cook, but he just dumps everything in the sink as he cooks, uses a new utensil for everything, etc. You don’t need a new spoon every time you taste your spaghetti sauce.

    It’s even more fun to cook when you know a parent is going to clean up the mess after your Iron Chef fantasy.

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      20 days ago

      If you find a way to teach this lesson let me know.

      My wife loves to cook and is very good at it, but she’s purely focused on the food. I try to clean as she goes behind her and she keeps shooing me away because I’m in way. However if I don’t then she’ll start getting annoyed that the sink is full. It’s a delicate balance

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        20 days ago

        I used to despise washing dishes. Then I opened a food biz, and spent many hours washing dishes and listening to audio books.

        Now I don’t mind washing dishes. There’s something very satisfying about tackling a pile of dirty dishes and having them all shiny and clean at the end. It’s very Zen.

        It helps that with great experience comes great speed. When others look at a destroyed kitchen and see hours of drudgery, I know that it will be beautiful in 15 minutes.

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          20 days ago

          Podcasts are also marvelous for this. Washing dishes is tedious, until your hands are going on their own in a pleasant way and I’m listening to “Revolutions” or “Mall Brats”.

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          19 days ago

          ive worked food service and wish i could say the same. I’d be all over dishes of i had at least a full power overhead sprayer. preferably with a 3 compartment sink but what i really want is the sprayer. the sprayer makes dishes fun.

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            19 days ago

            Yeah, a full three compartment sink set up is great. One of my lottery purchases when I hit the big one, will be a house with a professional kitchen in it, with a serious dishwashing bay in it.

            I really love those commercial dishwashers that have a 90-120 second cycle.