Getting the month old baby to stop crying and go to sleep.
That’s a task I like! I recommend singing. You can’t sing properly if you’re tense, they feel your body relax and they relax too. Also a sort of mr motivator style side to side step with squat dip in the middle. Aww. I could trade you my dishes for the crying baby, but there’s probably rules about that sort of thing.
Removing a Weetabix biscuit from the paper wrapper without scattering flaky crumbs all over the kitchen worktop. I could swear that each comes with a spring loaded scatter gun.
Putting the bins out obviously. As for the pre-rinse thing, it's a good idea if you don't want your plastics staining with tomato soup, curry or Chinese red sauces. Also find if the plates go in caked in food they don't come out properly clean although that leads me on to another simple household task which is extraordinarily difficult, stacking the dish washer so that the water can actually get to everything......
Years ago I was in somewhere pretentious like Lakeland where they were selling a special knife for opening those blister packs. It was in a blister pack.
Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it
Simply use a tin opener on the edges. You're welcome.
I could trade you my dishes for the crying baby, but there’s probably rules about that sort of thing.
I’ll take it.
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
Depends on the amount of garlic "punch" you need in the dish Slicing/chopping for a milder approach, crush for moar garlic flavour.
EDIT Crying baby needs a non-marking white rubber mallet. One tap and quiet returns. 😀
Changing the **** duvet case.
This is the only answer on this thread that makes sense.
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
Goodfellas prison-style.
Garlic should be crushed with the flat of your knife blade then chopped in two directions
Crushing breaks the cell walls to release the flavour
Yarp, crush then dice. Only way to do it.
Depending what it's going it determines how finely you dice it.
I'll get these when my park pizza cutter breaks, which by all accounts should have been 15 years ago. But it's still going strong.
Can I just ask, why the heck does anyone rinse stuff that’s going into a dishwasher?
Because you're supposed to?
Would you pre-rinse normal crockery etc before washing by hand?
Yes. You might relish sloshing your hands around in foody farage but I don't.
That’s a task I like! I recommend singing. You can’t sing properly if you’re tense, they feel your body relax and they relax too.
I recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
Probably why the 4 year old calls anyone with red hair 'Molly'.
Those evil packets that have the little “peel here “ tab on them, only works if you have a pair of pliers or scissors to hand. Do the idiots who design these things ever test them? Oh, and the resealable pasta bags that instantly split from top to bottom when opened, Grrrrr.
@Cougar have a like for correct use of farage in a sentence. (Johnny & the Baptists?)
I expect that pre rinsing will correlate with poor portion control. All that's usually left for us is a smear of jus, veloute, reduction or plain old gravy.
have a like for correct use of farage in a sentence. (Johnny & the Baptists?)
I don't recall the source, there was a thing a few months back where people were trying to come up with a word for the detritus-laden horror water oft found in the bottom of toilet brush holders. Might even have been on here.
The weekly meal planner.
The moment my wife says we got to do it my brain empties of the hundreds of different dished I've ever had. I like food but I can understand why some people eat the same meal everyday.
Peeling a piece of clingfilm off the roll.. they always start ok, then seem to get bashed on the end and you peel an ever-shrinking piece, then you have to find the end and pick it with your fingernail… its worse than dented sellotape!
The definition I know is the secretions at the bottom of the kitchen bin = farage. From the aforementioned Johnny & The Baptists
The blister packs for those little CR2032 (or whatever they are called) batteries that go into lights and HR straps. Bloody impossible to get into and then you have to remember to remove the little peel off tab on the battery or your HR monitor won’t work and you will be left wondering why… I’m told😉
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
100% this. And then crushed with the side of the knife to release the oil
That’s a task I like! I recommend singing. You can’t sing properly if you’re tense, they feel your body relax and they relax too.
I recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
Probably why the 4 year old calls anyone with red hair ‘Molly’.
I used to use Neil Young’s Harvest or After the Goldrush. Singing along to Out on the Weekend worked a treat.
@cougar - rinsing before the dishwasher.
Because you’re supposed to?
Unless you've left an entire chicken kiev on there. Or half a stroganoff etc.
One word. Get a tap diffuser.
Counting seems to be trickiest, given the evidence!!
Eyetwice
Crush then chop you heathen
I'll just settle for remembering - anything...
Regarding the garlic comments above.
Turning lights off when you’ve left a room. Seems impossible for everyone bar me
Still pondering this. How do you turn the lights off after you’ve left a room?
No you aren’t.
Most of us aren't in the US.
Still pondering this. How do you turn the lights off after you’ve left a room?
"Alexa, living room lights off."
Or push the lightswitch. It's really easy.
The instructions with our dish washer were really clear. You have basically bought a huge rinsing machine. Pre rinsing just wastes time , energy and water. What’s encouraged is scraping.
I’d say matching plastic boxes and lids can be a challenge in our house
My 3 year old did not like Vincent black lighting 1952 sing at bedtime this week. I did 🙂
They Johnny cash version of hurt did work. I've stopped singing it as he learns to talk.
Now he mostly asks for ring of fire
Taking used crockery to the kitchen and emptying any waste into the kitchen bin that you pass on the way to the sink sideboard.
Putting washing away.
I have no idea which clothes belong to which child so take ages to check labels.
My working memory skills are very low.
The blister packs for those little CR2032 (or whatever they are called) batteries that go into lights and HR straps. Bloody impossible to get into and then you have to remember to remove the little peel off tab on the battery or your HR monitor won’t work and you will be left wondering why… I’m told😉
Stanley knife blade, slide it under the battery rather than slicing across the top.
I carry a pair of batteries with a new stanley knife blade taped to the back of them in my bike toolkit as the SRAM AXS shifters use them and they tend to go flat mid ride randomly once a year...
My MiL was shocked I don’t rinse plates. I told her that nowadays dishwashers can use less heat and water due to advances in dishwasher tablet science. Modern tablets contain compounds that react with grease and food bits to help lift the dirt. Washing this stuff off beforehand inhibits that reaction.
This was ages ago and I can’t remember if I was making it up or not.
I’d say matching plastic boxes and lids can be a challenge in our house
Yep. I can find the lid but not the box. The next day I can find the box but not the lid. I'm sure it's some sort of magic trick where as soon as you see a lid, the matching box disappears in to thin air.
Putting the clocks backwards and forwards (nearly that time again) ... especially in the car (for which I can't find the manual and when I do, can't find the page and by the time I've worked it out 6 months have almost passed so wonder why I bother).
Just that really.
Peeling a piece of clingfilm off the roll.. they always start ok, then seem to get bashed on the end and you peel an ever-shrinking piece, then you have to find the end and pick it with your fingernail… its worse than dented sellotape!
Grappling with cling film was going to send me to an early grave. Then, one of these came into my life:
The mighty Lakeland Wrapmaster Foil and Cling Film Dispenser
Naturally you can only fit Lakeland cling film in to it but I'm prepared to overlook that.
"Garlic should be sliced thinly.
100% this. And then crushed with the side of the knife to release the oil"
Adding a few salt flakes helps release the oils for maximum unctiousness. Makes the garlic taste less bitter than using a crusher as well.
I've got a Bacofoil cling film dispenser and rather than get the expensive Bacofoil replacement rolls with a proprietary fit I just buy a cheaper cling film roll that's less wide.
Works just as well.
Simple household tasks which are extraordinarily difficult Understanding what MrsWCA actually wants me to do when she says something that doesn't request me to do anything but results in suffering if I don't do it.
Modern tablets contain compounds that react with grease and food bits to help lift the dirt. Washing this stuff off beforehand inhibits that reaction.
This was ages ago and I can’t remember if I was making it up or not.
All detergents contain compounds that react with grease and food bits to help lift the dirt. Washing this stuff off beforehand means there's less to lift.
Modern tablets contain other stuff which negates the need for separate salt and rinse aid (though I suspect most people still add it anyway).
I can’t remember if I'm making this up or not either.
Page 3 and no one has said ironing yet?
OK, I will. Ironing
