Trick yourself into thinking you’re enjoying the journey too
I love cooking apparently
Start cleaning dishes as you cook. This leaves you with only a few at the very end.
Chores are for people who don’t cleanup after themselves
also like, what the fuck kinda cooking are these people doing???
when i cook i use like… 3 pots and pans at most? frying pan, saucepan, and big pot for boiling pasta/potatoes/whatever
takes like 1 minute to handwash holy shit, and if you have a washing machine it’s even more a complete non-issue
Making something super basic like waffles or crepes is still gunna be a couple Bowls, measuring cups, utensils and a pan, as well as a bong, downstem and bowl… Add eggs and bacon make it 2 pans. 8-10 items to wash without plates and utensils to eat with.
Now let’s do steak with compound butter, potatoes, and a salad.
Cutting board, skillet, spatula, plate to salt & dehydrate steak. Cup to melt butter, garlic press. Pot for potatoes for mashing, pot for gravy if not using skillet. Spoon for tasting. Salad board, knife and spoons and Bowl to mix salad. 10-15 items and im not even high enough to be hungy enough to eat something this heavy.
One word:
Scale
Sorry but no.
Even separating dry and wet ingredients sometimes make a mess.Sorry but skill issue
You literally can use just one spoon to scoop and weigh things. Of course just dumping the ingredients in is going to make a mess, just like how just dumping them into a measuring cup is going to make a mess.
You literally can reproduce the exact flavor of a dish using a scale, you can’t do that with rough measuring tools.
Even just rinsing them as you go makes it easier to wash later on.
But but you’re wasting water! I just hate how much companies got a pass back in the day to waste as much as possible and push recycling and saving down to consumers…
Rinsing your dishes, taking a longer shower, doing a small load vs large load of laundry should do absolutely nothing to your conscience. Your only concern would be saving money for yourself… And voting blue lol.
https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/water/us-water-supply-and-distribution-factsheet
Get yourself a dishwasher its an absolute lifesaver.
And the whole cooking thing its one of those few things that anyone can learn (u have chatgpt) and can perfectly taylor to themselves.
Cooking is not a skill or chore its an artform where you are the only contestant and judge.
That’s why I put everything in the dishwasher. Knives, scissors, sponges, brushes, nonstick pans… if you can’t survive the dishwasher then GTFO my kitchen.
Reminds me of the many times my dad and i got reemed out by my mother for putting her fancy bullshit thingomawhatsit reverse camshaft hoozlmajig in the dishwasher.
Depressed people, listen, I understand that pile of dishes is symbolically more than a pile of dishes. But trust me, get up now and do it. It will take you 5 minutes and you might even be rewarded with a hit of dopamine. Go now. You can do it; I believe in you.
Hobby cook who likes to experiment accidentally making something that tastes like shit so you don’t even get the 10 minutes of pleasure:
You either need to learn to eat from the pan(it’s a one pan recipe, regardless if it is or not), cook enough for 3 days, or do impromptu fasting( absolutely for health and wellness and not because you don’t want to wash dishes)
This is why I don’t cook anything fancy.
If I can’t throw together in 2 minutes and toss it in a a cooker unattended until a timer goes off or eat it uncooked, I don’t care enough to make it.
Boring? Sure. I still enjoy my ramen with broccoli and my canned peaches oatmeal.
No, that’s not boring. That’s sad. You really need to get help.
