@tracey …
Youv’e put knives into a tray in a drawer…
I did twitch when i saw that... Couple of weekends after my ex moved out i actually went to buy a magnetic knife board so i could get my decent knives out of the draw.
I then bought a proper whetstone set and, unfortunately, needed to buy a few new knives...
If you hold a thing under a running tap, it also doesn’t get scratched by the sink, and after you’ve finished cleaning it, you can rinse it to get rid of the dirty water and soap
If I am reading this correctly this means that the tap is running continuously whilst washing? Surely this uses a lot of water and energy to heat it. I would have been told off for this as a kid, and having spent many weeks as a teenager ( formative years) on small boats washing up with the minimum of water was ingrained as we were the ones who had to carry all the water to fill the tanks. Same with brushing teeth, the tap is only running when cleaning the brush not during the brushing.
I can see why we have hosepipe bans. It's all these people having taps constantly running down the plughole as they wash up.
With modern on-demand hot water, you generally can't have it slow enough for this method and still be enough to make the boiler kick in. Huge waste.
I have a bowl but set the hot tap as slow as possible into it as I wash. A hybrid approach. I rinse as i go but if the bowl fills up i turn the tap off (I've washed and rinsed the bulk of the big ticket items by then) and then it's usually only cutlery left so they get a quick rinse in the draining pot and job done.
If something has been soaking, you still have space around the bowl (with a single sink) to pour it away at the side of the bowl. There's always someone who's left a couple of swigs of tea in a cup you come across. Where does that go if you've filled up the sink without a bowl?
- How on earth do you all manage to stay married/co-habiting/living in sin etc with all this low grade passive aggressive warfare going on?
- I'm beginning to understand why some people are the way that they are on here. 😉
Nothing wrong with knives in the drawer out of the way.
Well, yeah. If you're into having self-serrated and/or blunt knives it's fine.
How on earth do you all manage to stay married/co-habiting/living in sin etc with all this low grade passive aggressive warfare going on?
Constant, low-level bickering has been part of our relationship since day 1.
It's our 34th wedding anniversary this year! 🙂
Congratulations. 34 years for us as well.
Knives are as sharp as some of the wit on here
38 years married, the bickering is what keeps us together! 😉
Surely this uses a lot of water and energy to heat it.
Less than filling a plastic bowl. It doesn't need to be coming out of the tap like a hose pipe, just a bit more than a trickle is sufficient, and you can turn the tap on or off as you need it, it doesn't need to be running constantly.
How on earth do you all manage to stay married/co-habiting/living in sin etc with all this low grade passive aggressive warfare going on?
Have you seen the cost of a divorce?
Besides, we have to stay united to defeat The Kids.
Less than filling a plastic bowl.
I would be very interested to know that if the next time you did the washing up using your method with a bowl collecting the water what quantity you ended up using. Try it and report back? Genuinely interested in the result.
On our recent water bill it gives tips for keeping water use low, it states do not run the tap when cleaning teeth, this probably applies to washing up using the 'rinsing under the tap' method.
In a bowl (which I only fill to half way) you have both hands free to scrub the scrambled egg pan, or get the sponge (eco friendly plant based) into the corners of a tupperware or non-dishwasher proof creuset dish etc.
One last thing, in a washing up bowl one can get the water quite hot, apply the marigolds and as Kayak says pour dirty swilled bits into the sink before plunging into the bowl itself, scrub,scrub.scrub, pop onto draining board and a swill over at the end to rinse. Voila!
apply the marigolds and ...
This usually doesn't end well
Constant, low-level bickering has been part of our relationship since day 1.
Mrs f likes to wander in and 'adjust' the draining board rack while I'm washing up, giving me a slight side eye whilst she does it before wandering off, always makes me smirk, it's basically foreplay 😀
On our recent water bill it gives tips for keeping water use low
There was for a while some 'campaigning advertising' in the restrooms at Fairholmes CP at Ladybower. to the tune of "do you know how much water etc etc" It's recently been painted over. My answer to that and the sorts of advice that they put on water bills, given their own recent behaviour isn't really repeatable on this forum.
you have both hands free
So you hold the sponge in both hands? You hold the thing you're cleaning with both hands and the sponge in your teeth? Or more likely, just like me, you're holding the thing in one hand and scrubbing away at the thing with the other, right? The only difference, is all the crap from my cleaning goes directly down the plug hole, and yours goes back into the same water you're going to 'clean' the next thing with.
@jimw, it's about half a bowl.
38 years married, the bickering is what keeps us together! 😉
I've pretty much decided that marriage is in fact just two people who've decided that a relationship is just shouting "what?" at each other from different rooms.
I’ve pretty much decided that marriage is in fact just two people who’ve decided that a relationship is just shouting “what?” at each other from different rooms.
I recently saw it described as deciding to spend the rest of your life with someone stood in front of the cupboard or drawer that you want to use.
shouting “what?” at each other from different rooms.
Which reminds me, she's very prone to ejaculating "Eh?" when she hasn't clearly heard what has been said. It's habitual, she's always done it, but for some reason I've become much more aware of it recently. And then remembered a general statement from my childhood that "Eh?" is rude and unnecessary. So, the current unspoken battle on that front is that I now completely ignore the word "Eh?" and wait for her to say "Sorry, what was it you said, please?"
Does the rhyme about "'ay is for 'orses" ring any bells?
ay for orses
bee for mutton
see for thailanders
dee for dumb
etc
But there are obviously 2 sizes of spoons.
Dessert spoons and teaspoons.
Teaspoons get their own little coral, within which THEY SHOULD ALL LIE IN THE SAME DIRECTION!
(Of course, if you also have soup spoons and sundae spoons, it gets more difficult, so best left for the butler to deal with.)
Does the rhyme about “‘ay is for ‘orses” ring any bells?
This is what I can pull from memory:
A for horses
B for mutton
C for miles
D for sa post
E for brick
F for vessent
G for
H for
I for the Engine
J for
K for
L for leather
M for
N for
O for the wall
P for
Q for a P
R for Mallard
S for
T for two
U for me
V for
W for
X for
Y for husband
Z for a wind
Teaspoons get their own little coral, within which THEY SHOULD ALL LIE IN THE SAME DIRECTION!
From the looks of some of these photos, they have to lie in opposite directions because there are too many spoons to fit in otherwise. The solution, of course, is that you have too many spoons.
You cannot have too many teaspoons.
Teaspoons get their own little coral, within which THEY SHOULD ALL LIE IN THE SAME DIRECTION!
Front to back yes, left to right no, I'll allow some to lie in the wrong direction to help those less able. You see some of us are correct handed, the remainder are right handed.
You cannot have too many teaspoons.
This is true, because they migrate to the same vortex as 10mm sockets
You cannot have too many teaspoons.
You've either got 30 or you've got none. There is no middle ground. I don't know why. Withcraft?
Trash gets pilled up on the kitchen counter next to the bin, even when the bin has space in it. It's worse than a teabag replica of the Leaning Tower.
Teaspoons should of course be kept in a beaker on the worktop next to the stove/hotplates/gas rings etc, handle down, for hygienic food tasting purposes.
>200 posts in a day!
Touched a release button ?
I’d take that any day over “on top of the bin.”
Or the recycling bin! I don't understand it, though; it gets moved into the bin at certain points during the day. It's like she doesn't want to commit to throwing it in the trash just then.
We call it ‘teabag Jenga’.
I think I went to college with her.
I recently learned we have a passive aggressive fork. Turns out this is a shitty wee fork that I get given if I’ve pissed her off. It really pissed her off that I didn’t notice this act on a number of occasions and wasn’t upset at eating slower
Yes, on page one of this thread. 😉
Doh!
At least I didn't try to take credit for it 😀
Soup spoons, I have a favorite yet it's always hidden amongst the oddly shaped dessert spoons usually beside the good dessert spoon.
Ive just come across this thread and can identify with loads of comments, particularly the ‘hidey-tidy’
on dishwashers, I saw a meme recently,’in every relationship there’s the one who stacks the dishwasher like a Swedish architect, and the one who stacks it like a raccoon on crystal meth!”
Most of you are spelling cluttery drawer wrong by the looks of your drawers....
This organiser from that lad Joseph will mess with your heads. More teaspoons and stuff in the dishy (so we don't have a plastic bowl in the sink)
To take the pic ihadto move Mrs epic out the way
