Two Kitchen Habits, Pet Peeves of Many

I have not witnessed either of these lately, but I know they happen.

1). Putting, placing, or piling dirty dishes in the sink. It’s a good way to turn your favorite flatware into junk metal, break a fancy glass carafe against the porcelain, keep you or anyone else from using the sink for customary acts. One design for counters is to hold whatever dishes and utensils you want them to hold, like dirty dishes, pots and pans, till you can get around to doing something else with them. They won’t be there long. Ever heard of the McSmithandersonjones family? They make a point of having dirty dishes on display on a counter for someone’s dropping in unexpectedly, to give the idea that dinner is over, in which case, the caller won’t stay long. But it doesn’t work quite that way for the O’Brownwigginshiltons. Their unexpected callers think now that dinner is over, the family has time to visit. But the longer they stay, the longer those dirty dishes have to wait, so they’d better be going. No real visit.

The other side of that coin is that when a kitchen is ultra spic-and-span, with never a sign of current civilization showing, you might wonder if anyone there knows anything about really living. If you call yourself a writer but can’t write till you take care of the dishes, then you ain’t a writer, to use one of my favorite words.

2). Storing your plastic containers, that nest so perfectly, into an upper cabinet, where you can easily reach them, and then throwing their lids into a drawer under the counter where crumbs and trash do corrupt. How unsanitary, then, to place one of those lids on a clean container from the upper shelf! If you clean out that drawer every week, you are one in 100,000,069, and may not be living up to your potential. The best idea I’ve heard is the lids should go on the containers right from the dishwasher and stacked in the upper cabinet. You don’t need many. After all, aren’t several in the fridge?

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