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What are your kitchen ickies?
Me - I don't like to find blobs of butter in my marmalade jar
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Sugar in the coffee, coffee in the sugar, toast in the butter, plus a lot of other things
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Sugar in the coffee, coffee in the sugar, toast in the butter, plus a lot of other things
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bits of food other than butter in butter grates me quite a bit. But not as much as people stacking dirty cutlery in sink then running tap for whatever reason. So washing up to do pile is wet and foodied erg
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people who stab and jab at the butter leaving it a mess. Not only must there not be crumbs or other foodstuffs in the butter, it must be a smooth finish and not with holes and chunks taken out of it. More an OCD thing than an icky one.
I don't like kitchens with goldfish / aquariums on the work surface. I just feels dirty. |
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bits of food other than butter in butter grates me quite a bit. But not as much as people stacking dirty cutlery in sink then running tap for whatever reason. So washing up to do pile is wet and foodied erg
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When people leave things floating in the washing up water.....either wash it up or leave it on the side.
And when people take their stuff to the dishwasher and just leave it on the worktop above the dishwasher.....you've walked with it that far surely you could have managed to put it in!
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Liquid in the bin. Where does it come from?
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people leaving things in the sink to steep, then forgetting about them and then the water ends up dirty and bits of food in it.
also toast crumbs under the toaster. x |
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I'm not sure how you do your washing up but doesn't washing up involve getting wet unless you wear gloves ?
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people leaving things in the sink to steep, then forgetting about them and then the water ends up dirty and bits of food in it.
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When people leave things floating in the washing up water.....either wash it up or leave it on the side.
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Pools of water near the sink. I usually walk about in my socks and end up getting a soggy foot.
The bottom of the crisper draw that has been fogotton and has a pile of brown water, mush and white fluff all over
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Someone opening a new bottle of milk when there is still milk left in the first bottle
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I'm another one who hates washing up being stacked in the sink/bowl. Leave it on the side please!
Also, not a problem usually as I live on my own such can avoid such 'issues', but I went away last month and kept finding crumbs on the kitchen floor. As I usually walk round in bare feet, it was horrible as they kept sticking. Ick. I ended up brushing the floor almost every day. |
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Wasps flying into the food while we're cooking...
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One thing that happens alot is my parents leaving the milk out once they've used it for tea! Really grates on me.. should always be in the fridge if it isn't being used!!
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Argh! - people who stir their coffee and then put the wet spoon in the sugar bowl
![]() Another thing I hate is people who just puncture a foil lid of any dry product. I have to remove the whole thing and I know I'm sad.
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Another vote here for the accumulation of plates in the sink, and also for the forgetting to do the dishes after filling the bowl.
Mind you I live on my own so I have limited opportunities to blame anyone else. Other ickies? Well anything sink based really. Cleaning it, getting the crap out of the plug hole etc Oh and I recently had to unblock it by unscrewing the pipes underneath - a very very grim job. Oh and I don't like people putting their used teaspoons directly onto the counter top. I'm certainly no clean freak but it really irritates. Chuck it in the (undoubtedly stacked high) washing up bowl, or onto the saucer I provide. |
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I really wouldn't like to live with most of you people, leaving plates on the side rather than in the sink is so messy for me. I prefer to clean as I go, but if people have eaten and end up leaving the plates on the side next to the sink it really grates. You clean the plate of big food stuffs in the bin, then rinse the plate (or in my case clean the plate) then stack neatly in the sink (if you are not cleaning it) ready for whoever is washing up. Having them piling up on the work surface is annoying.
As for ickie I would say people leaving the butter knife on the side to crust up with butter, or leaving bits of porridge in the bowl and filling up with water. |
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Wasps flying into the food while we're cooking...
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Liquid in the bin. Where does it come from?
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I really wouldn't like to live with most of you people, leaving plates on the side rather than in the sink is so messy for me. I prefer to clean as I go, but if people have eaten and end up leaving the plates on the side next to the sink it really grates. You clean the plate of big food stuffs in the bin, then rinse the plate (or in my case clean the plate) then stack neatly in the sink (if you are not cleaning it) ready for whoever is washing up. Having them piling up on the work surface is annoying.
As for ickie I would say people leaving the butter knife on the side to crust up with butter, or leaving bits of porridge in the bowl and filling up with water. Me too I wash as I go.....but I hate it when there are dishes floating in cold water with conjealed food so would rather they were just left on the side (not for longer than a few hours). |
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I can't eat in places where people let their cats walk all over the kitchen worktops where food is prepared. Especially when they've just walked out of their litter tray.
I'm amazed it never seems to bother them. |
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I don't like having the washing up bowl stacked with the dirties either. I want it on the side, fill the sink up with nice clean water and then put the things in and wash them one at a time.
I also hate washing cutlery. Sometimes it just never seems to end. ![]() Saying that, I rarely have to hand wash these days as most things get bunged in the dishwasher and I only use things that can't be put in it reluctantly. I also hate it that 5 minutes after I have stacked and set the dishwasher, some kind sole puts a dirty dish on the side. Firstly, our dishwasher is good that you can open it at any time during the cycle so why can't they pop it in. And secondly, they could probably hear me stacking the dishwasher just a few minutes a go. Why not bring it then?? Also, when other people stack the dishwasher but don't put everything in. You as why the item isn't in the dishwasher and get told it wouldn't fit. Only for you to open the dishwasher and there be masses of room left for it. |
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I am sure my sons think its a competition to see who can stack the sink the highest and most unstable. I always let out a few swear words when I first walk in the kitchen and see it.
I also hate the fact that if there is a new loaf my eldest opens it even if there is still half a loaf left. He always says "but its fresher" |
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After washing up after a meal with a tomato-based sauce and there's a red ring of scum around the bowl.. urggh. Probably doesn't help that we have a cream bowl, but still.. hate it.
I'm with most of you on not stacking dishes in the sink, but one thing that really icks me out is when the OH has had cereal in the morning and left the dish on the side before work which then dries up and crusts over by the time I come home to do the dishes later on. I can spend hours trying to scrub off dried weetabix.. grr. |
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