Naughty kitchen no-no's

Luke Buckle

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Which activity by family members really gets your goat when you're trying to cook or clean up.

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Sneaking into the pantry for a snack

Dumping plates on the bench

Sticking their finger in your cooking!

Other - tell us below!

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felixgrantham

9 years ago

My husband seems to have a genetic problem that prevents him from turning on the dishwasher when it is full. Also, when he washes a pan, he only washes the inside, leaving grease & whatever on the handle & the bottom of the pan. Oh, and bacon grease all over my formerly nice clean stove.

Oh, and today, the cleaning lady unloading dirty dishes from the DW into my cabinets - it's not hard to tell the DW has run because it always leaves puddles on the bottom of the mugs - guess that's why she's a cleaning lady & not a rocket scientist!

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Mark Bischak, Architect
10 years ago
Not helping.
Emily H
10 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
My personal peeve is when the kids decend on the grocery bags like locusts when I arrive home to snack, but don't help put anything away.
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Leaving dirty dishes in the sink is my kitchen pet peeve.
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Not filling up the ice tray...
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No help for the cook.
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Using something up, not adding it to grocery list, and then complaining when we're out of something.
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Too much help from the other cook.
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My son leaving the empty chocolate or milk cartons in the fridge! It's finished throw it in the bin!
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I'm a germaphobe, so no finger dipping in my kitchen! Grab a bowl and a ladle, please, Thank you.
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Dropping personal belongings on the kitchen counters and taking up space I need to get food prepared.
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I hate when you clean up and they put dirty things on what you just cleaned
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Not offering to help.
Jessica Kerry Mack
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
One of my pet peeves was with my ex, he insisted he would help wash the pots/pans that could not go in the dishwasher. However, even if they sat in the sink for days he would get angry at me for "not trusting him to keep his word" if I washed them before he got to it. So my choices were to wait - sometimes weeks - with the same dirty pots sitting in the sink and unable to use them for cooking until they were clean or wash them myself and get yelled at and send him into a spiral of depression since he had bipolar tendencies. Oh - and of course if I ever mentioned the fact that there were unwashed pots in the sink or asked when he would get to them that was considered "nagging" and would cause another argument and subsequent depression.
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Putting back empty cartons or other containers. Just get rid of it!
automatikj
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1) Failing to unload the dishwasher when clean, or to add dirty dishes to it when it is not.
2) Using miscellaneous horizontal surfaces as a landing spot for... everything (including the dirty dishes from #1, things that belong in the basement or outside, etc.). OK, so we don't have a mudroom or a garage. OK, so I don't need all that space to prep. But it's called visual clutter in my workspace, and it brings me down. The kitchen looks bad enough when it's tidy.
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Don't watch when I'm dishing up the dinner. I'm liable to drop things.

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