Do you wash dishes as you go or leave the pile for later.

Imogene said:
Psychology says people who clean as they cook instead of leaving everything for the end display these 8 distinctive traits
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Good for them!

If I cook something really simple and I have to wait 10 minutes until the potatoes are cooked and have to do nothing else, then I may clean something, but no way if the dish is difficult or I have 4 pans at the same time cause this one wants to eat this and that one that, then bye bye it's no cleaning as you go.

When I just married I came from a students house. 1 cooks and the rest cleans. I cooked. You have to do the dishes. He was like: No you have to clean too. What??? Okay then.

Immediately ruined any fun to cook something special for him with a load of pans. 1 pan meals from then on. Ziezo look that's beautiful from Aviko.


Oh LOL they also sold aprons in the time that my dad whined that my mom cooked the potatoes too hard. It said: Burned or still raw? Shut up and eat it.

My mom learned to do the household from her eldest sister. Eldest of 9. Whole load got dumped on her. She had to cook for the whole bunch. When they complained she said: Eat it! The goats eat it too!
 
I don't clean dishes, cookware, etc., during the time that I'm still preparing the meal, but I clean everything right away after eating. I looked at the list of 8 distinctive traits, and #2 on the list said "they experience less stress and anxiety." No, that one doesn't apply to me. My stress and anxiety would run very high if I left dirty dishes, knowing I would have to deal with them later.
 
Well, I guess I'm a useless human being. I pile stuff up, then create a Tower of Babel with all the washed dishes that sit in the rack. At least I don't do as I did in my early batchelor days --- let the old food sit on the dishes and once they were thoroughly caked on there. reuse the dish. :eek:
 
retiredtraveler said:
Well, I guess I'm a useless human being. I pile stuff up, then create a Tower of Babel with all the washed dishes that sit in the rack. At least I don't do as I did in my early batchelor days --- let the old food sit on the dishes and once they were thoroughly caked on there. reuse the dish. :eek:
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Nooooo way! I got the pig of the year award from my brother as a student and at times I'd let tea or something rot. Full of mold. But reuse the dish? LOL

I saw that that guy who invented penicillin was too lazy to clean the petri dishes and when he came back from a holiday fungus had grown on the bacteria and he invented penecillin. Fleming.

And on Facebook I saw that Pasteur did something similar and invented vaccins.
 
I wash the dishes after cooking and after meals. They need washing anyway and letting them pile up, dirty just makes the inevitable job more
of a nuisance than it needs to be. We observed the same protocol on the construction and remodeling jobs. Managing the scraps and debris
was easier the sooner we got it over with.
 
I remember many years ago we did all the catering for my husband's niece who had the reception in our back yard. My husband bought 90 pieces of knives, forks and spoons from the op-shop which I sterilised in a bucket of hot water and Bi-carb, they came up like brand new. We had 90 plates and drinking glasses. When everybody went home, I put all the washing up in our large bathtub and filled it up with hot water, vinegar and detergent, soaked them for half an hour, gave them a good scrub
and rinse and they came up terrific. .
 
Once long ago I cooked duck l'orange. I hadn't tackled it before or since. We were on our way out for the evening and I left the dishes. Came home late and left them until morning. Gummy sticky mess everywhere. It took hours to clean up at least in my memory. Can't remember the meal, only the scrubbing. I guess it made a good story.
 
I would have to say it depends. I live by myself and I use paper plates. So on a daily basis all I have to wash are my cooking utensils.
I usually just leave them to soak. I want to eat my food while its hot. Sometimes I wash them later. Sometimes its the next day.
Its not like anybody is going to see them but me. I sleep just fine. :D

Now if Im preparing one of my holiday feasts or making some elaborate dessert then I wash as I go since I have a small kitchen and not a lot of counter space. Besides I cant leave stuff unattended. If I leave the room I can get distracted. And stuff can get burned. BTDT :eek:
 
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