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WyattskinthatsmokewagonEarp
Unpopular opinion here I clean as I cook and hate when SO uses every pot and pan in the cupboard 2 make simple things and expects me 2 clean
ffilm
This. There's enough "down time" while cooking to clean-while-you-go. The only things that need washing when I cook are the dishes & silver.
WyattskinthatsmokewagonEarp
Agreed. glad I'm not the only one. I find it rude if I make a meal and ask my SO to clean the dishes after work or when she just gets home.
lacb
I'm not gonna clean up my roommates pans because they decided to make me food
crazysmile
Unless the roommates dont like OPs cooking and dont want to eat
TheScaryDoor
This only works if they know you're cooking for them and enjoy the food. You can't just surprise someone with tons of food and a huge mess
ArtsyChelsea
We'd get unexpected meals cooked for us, and we cleaned up. It got tedious since we didn't always need her meals. What about you?
anddylanrew
My roommates could use every dish in the house to cook plain rice the fill up the sink to let them soak for days.
xmaneds
that roommate just shot themselves in the foot. They will never have dinner cooked for them ever again. (1/2)
xmaneds
He is also in for an incredible disappointment when he gets married (2/2)
rosiethereaver
Or he'll be an incredible disappointment when he gets married.
PeacefulWarfare
Right!
Djsnek
I cook and clean for only myself. My housemates are vegetarian; I just put meat in everything.
Lilshadow48
Fuck off, spambot.
meowuse
I always do dishes while cooking. You make times you clean it. But they SHOULD help if you are feeding them. That's just polite.
UnsavoryCommenter
I mean, do you offer them dinner or do you just make it for them and then expect them to clean for a meal they didn't want
insidethecriticalzone
Does it matter ? in all cases , you clean your shit
UnknownSquid
But it's not the cooks shit, it's the familys shit, used for everyone's sake. The cook has already done their share of the work cooking.
MoreCheeseGromit
(1) This - when I had flatmates if we had an organised group meal and one of us cooked, the rest of us cleaned. If say, I just wanted to try
MoreCheeseGromit
(2) something new baking, but but I put out for the rest of the house to try after, there's no way I'd expect them to clean my stuff up.
luketreefreebean
I fucking hate people who think I cook, you clean bullshit. That is why I cook and clean, and eat. If I make the mess then I clean it.
WinterGrasp
Why not everyone washes their own shit?
UnknownSquid
2) Best way is to agree beforehand on a rota. One cooks, one cleans, then cycle each day. Saves everyone time, minimises wasted effort.
UnknownSquid
1) That just makes more work, uses more water+electricity. Cooking for 3 is equally as easy as for 1. Uses same amount of pans, +2 plates.
RightInThePleb
He said wash nothing about cook
UnknownSquid
If everyone eats it, the mess belongs to everyone. Whoever already put in extra work to provide the meal, shouldn't get even more work.
RightInThePleb
Who are you even arguing with?
WinterGrasp
Washing each their own plates is the same as washing 1 person all the plates.
imbadwithnamez
That's Bs, if I cook they clean. Hope they change their mind
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
This should be a success kid. Nothing shameful about doing what's right.
JustinHudson
Matter of opinion on what's "right" here
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
If a roommate cooks for you, you should probably clean it up unless the roommate wants to do the cleaning too.
JustinHudson
A cook cleans his own mess. Sure, if you agree that one does the cooking and one does the cleaning, fine. But it shouldn't be assumed.
JustinHudson
It's always decent to offer to help clean up, but it shouldn't be assumed. I never expect the people I cook for to clean up!
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
2 interest would probably be to just cook for himself so he doesn't have to clean up after everyone. Right?
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
1 True. From this post though it seems they'd agreed to clean and he cook. Only now did it get changed on him. So the best choice in his
JustinHudson
I agree. If that was agreed upon, then screw the roommates
Ssssssssssss
I'd say pretty firmly that it depends on agreements, but if your roommate 'told' you something, they have overstepped themselves. Fuck them
Nikolaj
Seems fair. Just cooking for yourself, I mean.
ThePotatoBandit
Also if you can just eat it out of the pot, means less dishes in the end
PeacefulWarfare
This. I'm totally fine with that
Guod
As I am not you, i want your foid
MikeSoto
Clean as you cook, let the roomies do what is ever left...
flashums
They only way to cook
Fazuzu
I said the same thing to my roommate. I never asked for the food. It isn't good. And due to your mess, I can't use the kitchen.
misssadventure
My SO is a fine cook but manages to use every pot and pan we own and makes a huge mess of the stove, counter and floor. And never cleans it.
dontmagpie
if you dont want the food, dont eat the fucking food, you ungrateful shitstain. they cook, you clean. you cook, they clean.
Gaidenninjacat
Even if you do eat the food, If you didn't ask for it, its just something offered. They can just go, Now you have to clean the kitchen.
Gaidenninjacat
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residentolive
Dude, if someone tells you "i'm cooking for you" and you don't want them to and you don't eat it, you definitely DO NOT have to clean up
Fazuzu
I didn't eat the food. He still used that excuse.
dontmagpie
thats an entirely different story then, and why the fuck are you commenting here
Fazuzu
No, pretty sure my roommate thought the same thing. He makes food, tells me to grab some. I don't. He expects me to do the dishes.
LouisianaBob
Yeah, don't get stuck with a mess because your roommate makes extra terrible food so they can pawn off the cleaning
misssadventure
No you can't just make messes in a shared space and say "that's the way it is, clean up after me". Be an adult and clean up after YOURSELF.
mellowdrama
Your roommate is a twat.
SlapMySalamiThatGuyIsACommie
Hey! You copied me!
(ty btw @ronimal )
VagisilToothpaste
What the fuck is so hard about cleaning the mess THAT YOU MADE?! When I cook for others I don't just expect someone else to clean up FOR ME.
UnknownSquid
Depends whether the food is expected/desired or not. If everyone eats, the mess belongs to everyone. The cook has already done their part.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
But they cooked food for them? Wouldn't it be a bit polite to clean up after someone who fed you?
TheMightyMoto
I owned most of the dishes when I lived with 3 other peps, I was happy to let them use them, but they never cleaned them so I took them away
TurduckenMcNugget
Been there, done that
xmaneds
good -- you have to set appropriate boundaries. you have to treat roommates like responsible adults. you did the right thing
curmudgeon91
Wish people had more respect for others' stuff. My roomy got a gf and took half my shit and left the other half gross. I was working 2 jobs1
BlindyBlindMansSonnySon
I was working full time and my room mate was work shy, he couldn't even put electric in the meter. I came home from work one time 1/?
BlindyBlindMansSonnySon
and he was sitting in the dark eating one of my pot noodles with cold tap water and drinking my bourbon with my entire CD collection 2/3
BlindyBlindMansSonnySon
sprawled over the floor and like 3 of them had boot prints on them!, who fucking does that shit? 3/3
curmudgeon91
sounds like a racoon. but yeah, that's shitty. :( had a few that liked to steal my pain killers (crohn's disease) and eat all my food. fun..
curmudgeon91
and didn't have time to clean up after him every fucking day. always nasty dishes covered in grease... my dishes, his grease.
AzerilPridham
THIS. I would feel like a dick for taking them all back, but they weren't giving my stuff the care it deserved so I don't feel bad at all
LiterallyYourMom
My ex-roommates wouldn't even close stuff. Open cabinets, jars with lids off on the counter, chopped veggie scraps just sitting there, etc.
HyrumGraff
I did this too.
theappsucks
I've done same living with knuckleheads. "Everyone now gets one plate and a fork." I hid the rest of the dishes. Clean forever after.
CatsandUnicorns
I did the same and everyones Dishes are colour coded, so now they can't deny they used it. Problem solved.
OldIronsides
Unless some ass uses someone else's plates...
CatsandUnicorns
Happened a few times, person knows th eyes didn't use it and we clean it before the other person realizes.
kereineko
I took the pots and pans because they kept putting them in the dishwashes, same with my chef knives. I warned 5X's then poof gone.
malakim
Eh, pots and pans can go in the dish washer, they usually are not composite materials so they survive well. Knives on the other hand...
GifAsInGiraffe
unless they are non stick, they don't do so well in a dishwasher
malakim
The main problem with dishwashers is thermal expansion. Pots are meant to get warm. Knives break at the handle due to expansion coefficients
Bondega
Science
GenerallyKenobi
Except if it's cast iron, never In dishwasher
kereineko
Coated pots and pans like Teflon shouldn't go in a dishwasher, the high heat degrades the coating faster.
Trashcanaddict
As compared to the heat of say, a stove??
kereineko
Most coated pans come with a warning not to cook on high heat for the same reason.
sakkehattu
Ex-roommate refused to partake in cleaning the kitchen. We told him that either he cleans or stops using the kitchen (fridge included). 1/2
sakkehattu
Took him a week to find out he can't afford to eat out everyday. 2/2.
TheMightyMoto
Was he one of the dumb ones?
sakkehattu
Lets put it thisway, he couldn't count income -daily spendingx30 before running out of money :D. I loaned him some money after that :)
27yoUGLYvirgin
You are one of the nice ones.
JPre35
i clean as i cook, 100x easier to clean pots and pans before shit gets caked on them.
JustinHudson
This.
pappyon
This is why cookers should clean; it creates an incentive to be tidy.
UnknownSquid
Doesn't that mean the food is going cold whilst you clean? Can't exactly clean pans before serving and whilst still full of food. '-'
JPre35
You only use one pan while cooking am entire meal?
UnknownSquid
One or two, maybe a baking tray or two. They're rarely ever empty for washing until served regardless. I guess you cook more exciting stuff.
JPre35
I guess? But i also serve on a tray or in a bowl.. rarely do i put a hot pot on the table.
UnknownSquid
1) Hmm. Vast majority of our meals get served straight from pot/oven to the plate. I definitely agree with washing things immediately if
UnknownSquid
2) possible, since it's always dramatically easier. I was just struggling to think of examples when that can apply is all.
PeacefulWarfare
This is the way it should be. You handle it all as it comes up. Anything that requires to be cleaned later you just wait til after eating.
rosiethereaver
Or you could let them soak for four days and only wash them when you need to use the pan again. Not that...I do that. Noooo, not me.
soggypancakes
Classic soak method, veteran move.
KillerKommando
moxymox
Roommates: "How can we tell this guy his cooking sucks?"
PeacefulWarfare
Cooking and cleaning go hand in hand. I can understand your side, but you cooking shouldn't burden others. Leaving a mess is a burden.
UnknownSquid
1) I'm getting the impression that a lot of people simply don't eat proper meals. How is someone else cooking for you a burden? Surely it
UnknownSquid
2) just saves everyone time, and prevents the same pans getting washed up three times a day. Do people just queue for the oven or what? : /
Spleadal
They should have to clean their own plates and clear the table thats common courtesy
PeacefulWarfare
Of course. At the very least scrape your leftover food into the garbage and rinse your plate off.
Spleadal
It depends if you absolutely destroy the kitchen in the process of cooking I might want you to help with dishes but they should have to clea
UnknownSquid
My (3person) household has a simple rota. One cooks, one cleans, one has day off. Excessively messy cooking methods are an exception though.
Spleadal
Clean their own dishes
ItIsJustAJoke
I cook, you clean. Them's the breaks.
Bcwhytfnot69
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chivas109
Nah
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SnoopDoggAttending
Maybe it's cuz we have 7 people in our family, but it was always clean what you use as you go.
ItIsJustAJoke
sure you should clean as you go but you shouldn't have to clean plates, silverware, cups, or whatever you're serving it in.
WildAndGreen
I completly agree, unless you burn the living shit out of the god damn pan Max!
khensu83
That's our deal at home tho we have a dish washer so who ever cooks gets out of clean up after
groundcontrolto
Used to live in a house of 4, 1 would cook, 1 would wash, 1 would set the table, do drinks and 1 would get a night off.
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HaircutsOfNicholasCage
I had this setup with my roommates once. Problem is, I'm a hermit and wanted no part in their cooking or cleaning.
69MeTomCruise
So basically you just mooched off their food labors and did nothing in return?
HaircutsOfNicholasCage
Other way around. I didn't eat their food and they expected me to clean up anyway. Like three times a week.
HaircutsOfNicholasCage
Okay occasionally, but there's a point when you're only cooking your own meals and expecting someone else to clean up after you.
THExPILLOx
The rule in my house was one person bought it, one person cooked it, one person cleaned it
TheEmperorOfMankind40000
If it's too messy it's a group effort.
Freudy
Unless the reason it's too messy is that the person who was *supposed* to clean skipped their duties for a few days.
DonaldTremp
Just do both things together
CodyJC
I agreed with this with the one exception that the one cooking rinse the pots and pans right after so shit didn't cake on for the washer.
RelartOfGivia
This is very important and also something my wife fails to understand.
iouoneusername
I cook, because I enjoy it. We split the cleaning.
rimehoarfrost
My fiancée and I are the same. Can't really see any other options
PeacefulWarfare
I cook and I clean up after myself because this is how it's done. You clean while cooking.
iwenttothechelseadrugstore
Same.
iouoneusername
It helps having a dishwasher too.
PeacefulWarfare
Of course. This is a necessity in my household. Even without one though. You clean as you go or after you eat. I try not to burden others.
jesusismysecondname
You're the hero we need but not the one we deserve
LouisianaBob
That's a good system. Number of people who enjoy cooking is much higher than the number who enjoy cleaning dishes
Strostkovy
We all cook as we have time, and we all clean up at the end (we each make varying messes)
groundcontrolto
Used to live in a house of 4, 1 would cook, 1 would wash, 1 would set the table, do drinks and 1 would get a night off.
ColoradoCattleCo
As a husband and father: I cook, I clean, wifey tries to keep the kids from killing themselves.
karkls
That's how it rolls in my house. But it's more like one cooks and cleans the other wrangles kids. Doesn't matter who does which
ColoradoCattleCo
I'm a much better chef than my wife. Lol.
misssadventure
As a wife, I cook, I clean, and keep the kids from killing themselves. Hubby works. It works for us.
Somethingwittyandunique
We are the same but the other way around: he does domestic labour (including kids), I do outside work labour. It works for us.
Momof2needsabreak
Yup, thats my life as well.
misssadventure
Your username speaks to me.
yourCleverUsername10
While one cooks the other does homework help and monitoring. After dinner the cook does pm hygiene w/spawn while the other cleans dinner.
mmurrbles
Eh if you cooked something and I didn't want it I'm not obligated to clean up your mess.
IHateYouMyselfAndEveryone
Nah, fuck that. "I made you dinner!" I'm not eating, thanks. "Well, I cooked, so make sure you do dishes."
howdoyoumakeatissuedanceputalittleboogieinit
This
MotherflippersThinkEverythingIsAMotherflippingJoke
This is how we did it when I had roommates. And we cleaned every Saturday morning as no one worked weekends. Took an 1 hour to the house.
LadyCottonHead
The boyfriend and I used to do it this way. But we both like to cook, and both hate to clean. Caused arguments, so you cook it you clean it.
LadyCottonHead
2 It does encourage sorting the dishwasher and cleaning as you go, rather than leaving a load of shit for the other person to deal with.
Noob3rts
I always clean up after I cook, it feels so weird to see people saying they want others to clean up because they made them food. :(
kittykat
Why should you do all the work. I appreciate my partner cooking, so I'm happy to clean up.
Noob3rts
I'm okay with somebody offering but it just feels so weird to EXPECT somebody to clean up without them wanting to.
UnifiedHivemind
They EXPECT me to feed them though...
Noob3rts
If they are too young to be able to cook, acceptable, but anything else after that shouldn't be EXPECTED.
Katalliaan
That's my thought as well - most foods you get started and then can let cook, so why not clean up the stuff you can while you wait?
Noob3rts
Pretty much. That's why I clean up my shit the moment I'm done cooking, it isn't that hard. Takes like two seconds unless you are handwashin
McKavian
I do the clean-as-you-go, but there are always left overs.
Kravery
Had a roommate who didn't think this way fair, moved in with my gf. GF didn't cook and refused to do dishes. Broke up with my gf.
ABurningBanjo
Roommate demands that I help cook and then refuses to help with the dishes. Guess who's moving out in a month? Counting it down already
Chpgmr
Sorry to hear about your broken dishwasher.
PajamaStripes
I hate dishes, but I almost always cook.
6pace
thats not a girlfriend thats a child. lol
staplesthegreat
Good for you, can't have that type of negativity in your life
Kravery
Thanks, took a long time to process and get over coupled with other negative behaviors I tried to "fix" all the time, but I'm better for it
Icanhazscience
A man must have a code.
Kiwisavage
what's with people not knowing how to cook? o.o
adl7
If they don't like cooking but do some other chore then it's good.
Conflict
Like doing the dishes?
Teas
Grew up with busy single parent that ordered take out or just made ramen.
Salpinus
My (now ex) GF don't enjoy cooking and therefore isn't very skilled at it. Then again, it was a good deal having different chores too :)
rhombusrightangle
I'll start with some home made bread early in the day followed by a tomato sauce with 3 kinds of trimed meat and make garlic bread your move
stainlessteelmohawk
I'll roast the garlic and stew the tomatoes, otherwise, i got nothin..
ffilm
I'll clean up!
PrincessLeliana
What a cunt. If you are kind enough to make dinner, it's common fucking courtesy for them to wash it up.
AnonymousWaz
Can't understand why we use the word cunt so often.It's a great word,granted.But those labelled as such to lack both the depth+desirability
TheBlackKaiser
"Oh can I have some? No I don't want to clean your dishes." That is going to be funny.
jeroenemans
Znayx
Can't quite tell all that says
rattbastard
I'd. Cook. You. Breakfast
trashbaby2k14
my old room mate was special. I'd cook for my mom, leave for work, come back, food was all eaten by him, mother hungry as she washes dishes
TheImgurWarsMadeMe
Some people are really inconsiderate, but lines would have been drawn that night, physically.
PeacefulWarfare
I don't see it this way. I want them to clean their own dishes, but I clean everything I use while cooking.
JanaJustinsdottir
It's economy of time and effort. The cook doesn't clean in our house either. Way it was explained to me is that if someone spent X amount..
JanaJustinsdottir
of time prepping and cooking dinner for you, they've saved X time for you. So you should repay X time with equivalent Y time cleaning dishes
JanaJustinsdottir
That way, you're meeting them in the middle, and you've done equal work. Otherwise, you're expecting them to do all the work for you
PeacefulWarfare
One isn't work though. Cooking is an enjoyable event so the math doesn't quite fit.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Depends if the same person always cooks, or if it rotates. Sounds like in this case the same person always cooks, and now is expected to /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
clean as well. That's bullshit. If it rotates, then I agree I'd rather clean my own mess and let everyone else clean theirs. /2
Gaidenninjacat
This is with the assumption they are asking him to cook meals for everyone Maybe he just does it and then expects them to clean up after him
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
If he just does it and they eat it, they should contribute some work or tell him to stop cooking for them. Because even if they don't ask /1
FartBoner69
Probably made hot dogs and dirtied 9 pots and pans in the process. Had a roommate that did this. His new roommate and I bonded over it.
ronkooby
This type of fuckery is the one exception to the rule.
MrRandom314159
Then there leads to an argument about what if you didn't ask or want them to make dinner?
squishiebunnie
Yes!
PuckeringButthole
Thijssie88
I clicked
stainlessteelmohawk
And THANK YOU! too
fullofpoo
Your full name was fully displayed
TheBlackestIncarnation
They updated the app on android so I don't have to click to see your full name.
fakeinformation
I'm on iPod and even though I click I can't see full name fml
Lovenkraft
Ours isn't "Cooking" duty its "Chore" duty... because I may be the best cook, but I dirty a ton of pans to do it.
misterwit
This works except for the people who never learn to cook anything but a frozen pizza and never get better cuz it's more work.
MyNameIsAgentSmith
I was lucky enough to have roommates that knew how to cook, along with myself, so we would just cycle the days we cook and chore duties.
Lovenkraft
Yeah, I felt bad because I always made such a mess, and it has helped cut back on my dishes output because I have to clean it up!
youcantproveit
I do this. Dirty fucking everything for a 4course meal lol. Clean as you go. If i sear meat, I do veggies in same pan to get the flavor.