If you leave my kitchen a mess, I will cut you. If you put my knives in the dishwasher, you’d better be a marathon sprinter. If you come into the kitchen while I’m prepping or cooking, you’d better will get barked at. None of this will be in anger. It’s just habit from having worked in kitchens. Well maybe with the exception of the chasing you after you ruin my knives. That would make me angry because I love my knives and I prefer weights over cardio.
@sillyheathen
My boyfriend put my knives in the dishwasher once, that was the last time he did that. He can do what he wants with his knives (we have separate knives sets) but mine DO NOT go in the dishwasher.
@pakopako@sillyheathen@Star2236 dishwashers dull the blades of knives used in the practice of food preparation. No dishwasher is safe for a chef’s knife. Butter knives, table knives, those are fine to put in the dishwasher, but woe be unto you if you place my good knives in a dishwasher.
@jitc@pakopako@Star2236 I had some very cross relatives when I catered my cousin’s wedding in the keys. I went to the kitchen to start the butchery of the main proteins for the dinner and couldn’t find one of my favorite knives from my roll. Finally someone said they thought they’d seen it down by the water. I was flabbergasted and ran out to the dock.
One of the cousin’s wives took it upon herself to take my flexible boning knife out of my knife roll and bring it down to the edge of the dock so she could gut fish. It was balancing on the edge of the board attached to the rail and was about to fall into the sea when I found it. I asked her why she took my knife roll out of the drawer and decided to take a $200 knife down the pier without permission when there was a knife block in plain sight on the counter.
She started name calling and telling me that I was ridiculous. “As IF a knife would even cost that much!” She said I was there to serve her. I told her that my gift to my cousin was me catering the wedding, and I wasn’t “the help”. The Englishman had to step in the middle so I didn’t commit murder or brawl. Some of the family came rushing over when they heard the yelling but soon agreed that what she had done was wrong. She wound up not staying for the reception because she didn’t want to eat the food of a pretentious bitch. Needless to say no one was upset by this. Not even her husband.
@pakopako@sillyheathen@Star2236 I have to say I admire your restraint. The actual nerve of someone to pilfer a knife from a chef’s roll! I’m flabbergasted.
@jitc@pakopako@Star2236 not just front the knife roll. She had to dig throw multiple drawers to get to the roll. She knew it was there because she’d been watching me prep for a few days. It just completely boggled my brain piece.
@pakopako@sillyheathen@Star2236 I’ve never worked in a professional kitchen, but I have a pretty hefty amount of respect for those who do, and just thinking about the absolute audacity necessary. Just wow.
@jitc@sillyheathen@Star2236 Ah, that makes sense. (I mostly use table knives, maybe a serrated bread knife; the one “good” blade being a cleaver that won’t really fit into a dishwasher… at least not without ramming into the ceramics. Spoiler, I know how well that fight goes.)
@honeybeehives3@pakopako@sillyheathen@Star2236 I have knives from Misen I really like, but my recommendation is that you go to a fancy culinary store and actually try some in your hand to see what weight and balance you like best.
@honeybeehives3@jitc@pakopako@Star2236 part of that is maintenance. I have some really decent chefs knives that are inexpensive utility kitchen knives. It’s more about maintaining the edge on a regular basis. I hone constantly and actually sharpen them a few times a year. Victorianox are solid knives you’ll find in most back of house kitchens.
@honeybeehives3@jitc@pakopako@Star2236 there are so many variables when choosing knives. I like my lighter Globals for certain things but I also have, wusthof, misen, Benchmade and a couple of knives from Taiwan. It’s about the job and personal preference. The biggest key is keeping them honed, not putting them in the dishwasher and just caring for them in general. If you use certain surfaces to cut on like glass or ceramic, they’re going to dull much faster. Also just no. If you want a good tool to aide in that process, Chef’s choice electric sharpener is something I’d recommend. Just don’t go too overboard.
My tools need maintenance, I need maintenance, my neighbors need maintenance. The online video game joke holds true: “the game is currently closed for maintenance; what happens when maintenance is over? Why, it’s time for maintenance of course!”
/showme photorealistic cats making a mess while cooking in a robust home kitchen; the cats cannot have thumbs and must be struggling to use their paws to both cook and utilize the tools while a cow drawn in the style of Far Side artist Gary Larsen is outside looking in from the window
/showme photorealistic cats making a mess while cooking in a robust home kitchen plus the cats cannot have human thumbs or hold the tools as if they had thumbs. All while a cow drawn in the style of Far Side is outside looking in from the window.
I clean as I go. My Kitchen isn’t tiny, but Not that big… Gotta clean as you go. Or be left with a horrible mess…BTW, Don’t be my Sister. She cooked while I was at work one day. The Italian sausage spaghetti smelled so good when I came in the door, but when I walked into the kitchen I couldn’t believe how she had dirtied So Many Pots and Pans, and left it Hideous… 15 Minutes and I could breathe again…Some things never change. RIP
My kitchen is always cluttered, but when I’m cooking I clean as I go so it doesn’t get bad. I am very territorial about my kitchen, and if anyone dares to enter my space when I’m cooking, they get “Get out of my kitchen!” yelled at them.
I prep ingredients first and clean as I go. It looks like a “Beat Bobbie Flay” kitchen scenario with all ingredients measured out and placed in containers. My spousal unit goes crazy as I prep and then clean. For me it is necessary for my sanity. The worst is when you’ve enjoyed a nice dinner and then look to the kitchen and realize you have another hour of work ahead before you can relax.
Many years of everyday cooking with my kids, so even though they’re grown I can’t honestly click on the"I’m very neat" option. BUT one key thing I do/did/drilled into them is CLEAN AS YOU GO.
Saves time AND money because you need a lot less kitchen stuff, plus at the end you can just sit down and enjoy what y’all made without a disaster slowly curdling/crusting/congealing in the sink.
One of my kitchen upgrades was extra deep sinks. As I prep, mix, and cook, all of the dirty dishes go into one side. I like keeping the Damage Zone contained.
I’m reminded of “last year’s robot” (C.L.U.T.Z. from 80’s animated CBS Storybreak) who looked like a rusted transforming boot, made up of smaller rusty boots, couldn’t compare to the modern robots (designed like silver butlers who were pre-programmed with the latest games and cuisine – but they all had that uniform look and feel); C.L.U.T.Z had to “learn” from scratch. Thus his cooking always tasted like home cooking (but it would destroy the kitchen instead of coming out of a microwave/hydrating chest compartment).
@chienfou size, function, grouping, alphabetizing. So many possibilities!
My closet is arranged by function and then by color within each class. I’m not ocd. I’m adhd. I’ve trained myself to do this so I can actually find what I need when I need it.
Not very messy.
Glad to see there is an I don’t cook option for me.
If you leave my kitchen a mess, I will cut you. If you put my knives in the dishwasher, you’d better be a marathon sprinter. If you come into the kitchen while I’m prepping or cooking, you’d better will get barked at. None of this will be in anger. It’s just habit from having worked in kitchens. Well maybe with the exception of the chasing you after you ruin my knives. That would make me angry because I love my knives and I prefer weights over cardio.
@sillyheathen Holy Crap! Brother from another mother, or Sister from another mister, apparently. I thought I had written the comment!!
@sillyheathen
My boyfriend put my knives in the dishwasher once, that was the last time he did that. He can do what he wants with his knives (we have separate knives sets) but mine DO NOT go in the dishwasher.
@sillyheathen @Star2236 What’s so wild about your dishwasher that the knives can’t go in?
@pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 dishwashers dull the blades of knives used in the practice of food preparation. No dishwasher is safe for a chef’s knife. Butter knives, table knives, those are fine to put in the dishwasher, but woe be unto you if you place my good knives in a dishwasher.
@jitc @pakopako @Star2236 I had some very cross relatives when I catered my cousin’s wedding in the keys. I went to the kitchen to start the butchery of the main proteins for the dinner and couldn’t find one of my favorite knives from my roll. Finally someone said they thought they’d seen it down by the water. I was flabbergasted and ran out to the dock.
One of the cousin’s wives took it upon herself to take my flexible boning knife out of my knife roll and bring it down to the edge of the dock so she could gut fish. It was balancing on the edge of the board attached to the rail and was about to fall into the sea when I found it. I asked her why she took my knife roll out of the drawer and decided to take a $200 knife down the pier without permission when there was a knife block in plain sight on the counter.
She started name calling and telling me that I was ridiculous. “As IF a knife would even cost that much!” She said I was there to serve her. I told her that my gift to my cousin was me catering the wedding, and I wasn’t “the help”. The Englishman had to step in the middle so I didn’t commit murder or brawl. Some of the family came rushing over when they heard the yelling but soon agreed that what she had done was wrong. She wound up not staying for the reception because she didn’t want to eat the food of a pretentious bitch. Needless to say no one was upset by this. Not even her husband.
@pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 I have to say I admire your restraint. The actual nerve of someone to pilfer a knife from a chef’s roll! I’m flabbergasted.
@jitc @pakopako @Star2236 not just front the knife roll. She had to dig throw multiple drawers to get to the roll. She knew it was there because she’d been watching me prep for a few days. It just completely boggled my brain piece.
@pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 I’ve never worked in a professional kitchen, but I have a pretty hefty amount of respect for those who do, and just thinking about the absolute audacity necessary. Just wow.
@jitc @sillyheathen @Star2236 Ah, that makes sense. (I mostly use table knives, maybe a serrated bread knife; the one “good” blade being a cleaver that won’t really fit into a dishwasher… at least not without ramming into the ceramics. Spoiler, I know how well that fight goes.)
@jitc @pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236
Where do I get a good chefs knife? Mine are always getting dull so fast I’d like to get a professional one
@honeybeehives3 @pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 I have knives from Misen I really like, but my recommendation is that you go to a fancy culinary store and actually try some in your hand to see what weight and balance you like best.
@honeybeehives3 @jitc @pakopako @Star2236 part of that is maintenance. I have some really decent chefs knives that are inexpensive utility kitchen knives. It’s more about maintaining the edge on a regular basis. I hone constantly and actually sharpen them a few times a year. Victorianox are solid knives you’ll find in most back of house kitchens.
@jitc @pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 Thank you. I’m sure they are better than my cutco knives.
@jitc @pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 Thank you. Now I have to find a culinary store around me.
@honeybeehives3 @jitc @pakopako @Star2236 there are so many variables when choosing knives. I like my lighter Globals for certain things but I also have, wusthof, misen, Benchmade and a couple of knives from Taiwan. It’s about the job and personal preference. The biggest key is keeping them honed, not putting them in the dishwasher and just caring for them in general. If you use certain surfaces to cut on like glass or ceramic, they’re going to dull much faster. Also just no.
If you want a good tool to aide in that process, Chef’s choice electric sharpener is something I’d recommend. Just don’t go too overboard.
@jitc @pakopako @sillyheathen @Star2236 Thank you. I need a knife sharpener.
@honeybeehives3 @jitc @sillyheathen @Star2236 augh
My tools need maintenance, I need maintenance, my neighbors need maintenance. The online video game joke holds true: “the game is currently closed for maintenance; what happens when maintenance is over? Why, it’s time for maintenance of course!”
When you have Cats making Pizza & other stuff… it can be very messy!
@mycya4me
Yes, I know what you mean…
https://youtube.com/shorts/bAgqpbCFIEI?si=SpqDlQm3ypr-oz-D
@mycya4me
Check out this monkey, he does it all!
https://youtube.com/shorts/mWf35Nqkm2A?si=Cj8UBkU2xA_a_Cf2
@mycya4me
@mycya4me there are cats on the counter. Cats on the cupboards above the counter. Cat fur
On the coffee maker and stove. It’s a problem…
/showme cats making a mess cooking
@lonocat
/showme cats not making a mess cooking
That seems too … peaceful.
/showme cats cooking in the kitchen causing chaos
How is the void emerging from behind a counter that’s otherwise up against a wall?!?
Now for
moreless questionable AI pics …/showme a cartoon cat chef preparing a penguin in a roasting pan
/showme photorealistic cats making a mess while cooking in a robust home kitchen; the cats cannot have thumbs and must be struggling to use their paws to both cook and utilize the tools while a cow drawn in the style of Far Side artist Gary Larsen is outside looking in from the window
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/showme photorealistic cats making a mess while cooking in a robust home kitchen plus the cats cannot have human thumbs or hold the tools as if they had thumbs. All while a cow drawn in the style of Far Side is outside looking in from the window.
Let’s see how (un)realistic AI can be:
/showme cats cleaning up a messy kitchen after a day of cooking
/showme cats messing up a clean kitchen after a day of cooking
The good news is that AI knows fur knows no chaos. The bad news is that AI thinks cats can pop through a microwave door.
Time to be more specific, what with one timeshared braincell and all:
/showme orange cats messing up a clean kitchen after a day of cooking
My kitchen is a mess, but I consistently leave it in better shape than I find it. You may draw whatever conclusions you wish.
I don’t cook. And my kitchen is a mess. I’m ok with it.
@milstarr Probably the healthiest attitude.
Just don’t get the health inspector over.
I clean as I go. My Kitchen isn’t tiny, but Not that big… Gotta clean as you go. Or be left with a horrible mess…BTW, Don’t be my Sister. She cooked while I was at work one day. The Italian sausage spaghetti smelled so good when I came in the door, but when I walked into the kitchen I couldn’t believe how she had dirtied So Many Pots and Pans, and left it Hideous… 15 Minutes and I could breathe again…Some things never change. RIP
My kitchen is always cluttered, but when I’m cooking I clean as I go so it doesn’t get bad. I am very territorial about my kitchen, and if anyone dares to enter my space when I’m cooking, they get “Get out of my kitchen!” yelled at them.
I prep ingredients first and clean as I go. It looks like a “Beat Bobbie Flay” kitchen scenario with all ingredients measured out and placed in containers. My spousal unit goes crazy as I prep and then clean. For me it is necessary for my sanity. The worst is when you’ve enjoyed a nice dinner and then look to the kitchen and realize you have another hour of work ahead before you can relax.
@accelerator This!
Many years of everyday cooking with my kids, so even though they’re grown I can’t honestly click on the"I’m very neat" option. BUT one key thing I do/did/drilled into them is CLEAN AS YOU GO.
Saves time AND money because you need a lot less kitchen stuff, plus at the end you can just sit down and enjoy what y’all made without a disaster slowly curdling/crusting/congealing in the sink.
There is some chaos when I cook. Occasionally I clean as I go but sometimes I wait until the end. Either way I clean up my chaos when I am done.
One of my kitchen upgrades was extra deep sinks. As I prep, mix, and cook, all of the dirty dishes go into one side. I like keeping the Damage Zone contained.
I’m reminded of “last year’s robot” (C.L.U.T.Z. from 80’s animated CBS Storybreak) who looked like a rusted transforming boot, made up of smaller rusty boots, couldn’t compare to the modern robots (designed like silver butlers who were pre-programmed with the latest games and cuisine – but they all had that uniform look and feel); C.L.U.T.Z had to “learn” from scratch. Thus his cooking always tasted like home cooking (but it would destroy the kitchen instead of coming out of a microwave/hydrating chest compartment).
Today I made butter beef in the slow cooker and Groats on the stove top and slow cooker liner is soaking in the sink and I make it to it tomorrow
One of these is me… I’ll let you presume which
@chienfou Loved this skit! Really miss Phil Hartman.
@milstarr
Absolutely. I love the beginning when he’s rearranging the ingredients in particular.
@chienfou @milstarr This Is me in my pantry or organizing the kitchen cupboards and drawers.
@sillyheathen
Especially if you throw in size as an additional possible ranking criteria!
@chienfou size, function, grouping, alphabetizing. So many possibilities!
My closet is arranged by function and then by color within each class. I’m not ocd. I’m adhd. I’ve trained myself to do this so I can actually find what I need when I need it.