• WanakaTree@lemmy.zip
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    13 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

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      13 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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        13 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”.

      • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
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        13 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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          13 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.