Hard agree
@cmconseils You don't clean up during cooking?
Once again having a tiny kitchen pays off.
@jollymnemonic @cmconseils
Doesn't matter when you do it, it's the total amount of work people want to see.
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Yeah the cleanup fairy never turns up
@sarpau Unless you cooked in a TV cooking competition show... 😜
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@cmconseils nay, skilled and experienced cooks have this organized during the cooking.

But I get it, my wife also makes a mess in the kitchen constantly and I need to clean it up after the “I’m so fucking proud” culinary experiment.

I’d tried to show her how to stay disciplined in the kitchen and only caused trouble to myself, so I gave up and helped put all that back into order.

Success came then eventually by surprise but that was part of growing experience.

Only casual/Sunday wanna be cool with a new dish people suffer with such mess, extremely.

Still worth learning as it’s super enjoyable.

@hollowone @cmconseils
Just want to say, you are not alone with this.
@cmconseils Isn't that the reason why some "sick of it" guy invented the dish washer?
@Brokar @cmconseils I know people that own dishwashers but prefer not to use them for reasons that are utterly beyond my comprehension
@Brokar @cmconseils Ackshually, it has been a sick-of-it woman, to invent (and patent and build and sell) the modern dishwasher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane
Josephine Cochrane - Wikipedia

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Clean as you go. First rule of cooking we learned at culinary school.

Also, "Counters are for meats and treats, not seats." One teacher would fail you for sitting on the counter!!

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"Why don't you wash up occasionally, like every other human being" - Withnail and I
https://youtu.be/q0DytHBjGTQ?t=117

Withnail washing up

YouTube
@cmconseils often before in my case.
@cmconseils @MrPineapple Clean up before starting the recipe?
@jayfell @cmconseils exactly. and sometimes even because someone else who was supposed to wash up forgot to.
The cleanup is always the worst part of cooking.
@cmconseils I do a combination of cleanup while cooking, and recipe sequence adaptation. So many recipes are not optimized; I'll read through and think, why do it that way and make 3 more pans? What's the impact of combining these steps? Often there are ways to condense the process and minimize mess with little or no impact on the final result. Recipes aren't immutable...
@cmconseils I "optimize" my recipes to use as little cookware as possible!
@cmconseils 😂🤣😂🤣 I know it's hard, but I wash as I go; sometimes, even reusing some of the same stuff twice!

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And the cost incurred for the recipes that end in a dish unfit to eat or serve the dog!

@cmconseils not ONLY this, but prep time needs to include a reasonable amout of time for finding that one special utensil that no one has seen since 1823 that is REQUIRED to make it go off without a hitch..
@Kzad_Bhat @cmconseils there’s this podcast episode of the Sporkful where they asked a cooking book writer why prep time on cooking books is just a fantasy. BTW NO ONE includes prep time (way harder to calculate)
@cmconseils This is legit a main selling point for Smitten Kitchen-- she has a small kitchen and she talks about how many dishes you have to clean.
@cmconseils I clean as I go. And then finish while cooking.
@ang6666 @cmconseils marry me, this true compatibility 😀
@cmconseils You can't beat a good sarnie, can you. All you have to do afterwards is lick the knife clean and put it back in the drawer.
@cmconseils Couldn't agree more. One-pot recipes are so underrated.
@cmconseils one of the main reasons I love Instant Pot recipes: one pot and minimal other dishes, for the most part
@cmconseils This recipe only takes 15 minutes! (not including prep work and clean-up)
@cmconseils I am still waiting for any of the Air-Fryer proponents to provide me with a concrete description of the cleaning process 🙄
@cmconseils Whenever I prepare something more complicated, I tend to wash the utensils and auxiliary bowls etc continuously, while cooking. Wonder if that is a sign of being neurodivergent? I can't stand leaving dishes in the sink.
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And that's why I clean up my cooking utensils as I go along while preparing a meal.
I'd be overwhelmed by a sink like that, Laura.
@cmconseils someone i know: that's the mess they create from boiling a single egg.
@jasperbuma @cmconseils Oh ik wil gerust foto's van mijn ontplofte keuken maken als het je gerust stelt 🤣
@cmconseils One-pot dish my beloved.

No wait, actually microwave meal my beloved.
@cmconseils Frozen pizza where you use the cardboard box as a plate my beloved. (Not really.)
@cmconseils I just use paper-ware. Problem solved!

@cmconseils This older recipe features a background shot of the consequences:

https://theonion.com/perfect-one-pot-six-pan-10-wok-25-baking-sheet-dinne-1820847016/

Perfect One-Pot, Six-Pan, 10-Wok, 25-Baking Sheet Dinner

The Onion
@cmconseils hmm, is a list of required tools ok?
because i've been adding "tools that are required for this" directly next to the ingredient list
and well you can infer that if you need the tool, you will also have to clean it after
@cmconseils That's an ADHD sink right there.
@cmconseils After an hour of cleanup...I agree so much.
@cmconseils Unfortunately I can't find the original quote but there is a saying that goes like "a secret of cooking is not thinking of washing the dishes"
@cmconseils I'm a fan of any recipe with "one pan" in the name.
@cmconseils That’s why if something can’t be washed in a dishwasher, it doesn’t have a place in my kitchen.
@cmconseils 'Jamie Oliver's 30 Minute Recipes And 45 Minute Clean Up' doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?