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Old 17-08-2008, 11:44
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Does this anger you? Your trying to prepare something to eat and the rest of the house thinks they'll come out and faff around the kitchen also? And if you say anything you are the worst in the world.

There I was pealing potatoes for lunch and trying to make a shepards pie for tomorrows dinner and the wife decides to come out and start baking buns for her mother, my son decides to come out and start painting, and my daughter decides to come out and pull all out of the drawers

And I say to the wife "Could you not have done that later on" get a mouthful and she goes away in a huff slamming doors, The joys of family life...

Is your house like this?
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Old 17-08-2008, 11:45
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Maybe they just want to be with you.
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Old 17-08-2008, 11:47
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No, we enjoy cooking together.
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Old 17-08-2008, 11:48
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Yes!! Thank goodness I am not alone - I'll go in and start cooking dinner, and then Mrs C will decide that is the best time to come in and make stuff for the following day, or similar - my absolute favourite one, whilst up to my wrists doing something like slicing chicken breasts, is the "pass me that tea-towel" Errmm, yeah, I'll just handle a clean tea-towel with my hands covered in raw chicken juices. Arrrgggghhh.
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Old 17-08-2008, 11:56
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Yes!! Thank goodness I am not alone - I'll go in and start cooking dinner, and then Mrs C will decide that is the best time to come in and make stuff for the following day, or similar - my absolute favourite one, whilst up to my wrists doing something like slicing chicken breasts, is the "pass me that tea-towel" Errmm, yeah, I'll just handle a clean tea-towel with my hands covered in raw chicken juices. Arrrgggghhh.
Yes.. My other half has also decided on quite a few occasions that when I'm making the dinner its a good time to put up the ironing board in the kitchen and start ironing. I don't quite understand how she thinks, there you are running around with boiling sauce pans and her stuck in your way ironing
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Old 17-08-2008, 12:34
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My flat this year had 12 people in and the kitchen was the same size as the 5-person flats. Thus, we had a crowd problem... 6pm each evening was CHAOS. Even though some of us cooked for groups, you still had about 8 people in one go trying to make do with one oven (the other was broken - the thermostat was terrible and it would blacken everything you cooked), one dodgy microwave, one kettle, one working toaster (the other was similar to the dodgy oven), and 4 out of 8 hobs (the others broke - one sporadically set alight when you cooked on it). Oh, and two small fridges is not enough for 12 peoples' food...

I am thankful for the kitchen back at home, which is twice the size and for a third of the number of people!
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Old 17-08-2008, 12:39
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Arrrgggg! People in the kitchen when I'm cooking drives me potty!

The worst is my Mother who insists on clear up, now I clear up as I go along, but she's dreadful. Put a spoon down for more than 5 seconds and its gone, washed dried and back in the drawer.

People who lift lids of pots or open the oven door also make me want to stab them with a carving knife. My Dad did this once when I was baking a victoria sponge, it turned out to be a lovely frizzbee.
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Old 17-08-2008, 12:41
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My kids will have "OUT OF THE KITCHEN!!!" engraved on my tombstone!
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Old 17-08-2008, 12:52
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Arrrgggg! People in the kitchen when I'm cooking drives me potty!

The worst is my Mother who insists on clear up, now I clear up as I go along, but she's dreadful. Put a spoon down for more than 5 seconds and its gone, washed dried and back in the drawer.

People who lift lids of pots or open the oven door also make me want to stab them with a carving knife. My Dad did this once when I was baking a victoria sponge, it turned out to be a lovely frizzbee.
My husband does that - drives me bloody mad

I can't stand people tasting the food I'm cooking either - they're likely to have their fingers chopped off.
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Old 17-08-2008, 16:51
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My wife usually decides she needs blackcurrant from the cupboard exactly when I'm dealing with 400 degree roasting pan, apparently her drink is more important!
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Old 17-08-2008, 16:55
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It's the people who interfere with the cooking that drive me mad. Stirring and salting and generally interfering and sometimes even criticising. Either let me do it or YOU do it.
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Old 17-08-2008, 17:12
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No, my family call me Gordon when i'm cooking, they know to STAY OUT of the kitchen
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Old 17-08-2008, 19:15
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I'm Cheffing Here!
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Old 17-08-2008, 20:05
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Yes my husband always decides that he really needs to do something when I'm dishing up + my little dog is just the same.
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Old 17-08-2008, 20:31
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i sympathise with the OP,my BF is a fantastic cook and when hes out in the kitchen creating i leave him alone sittting on the couch with my wine.
HOWEVER when im cooking and im not to bad a cook myself
he insists on coming out to check up on how im doing,adjusting the gas rings and giving me hints and tips.
thinks hes being helpful but very annoying tbh.
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Old 17-08-2008, 20:42
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It has taken me the better part of 30 years to achieve it but my family and friends now appreciate that the kitchen is a 'NO GO ZONE' when I'm cooking .

I had to be really diplomatic about it but really needed to explain that I enjoy it and prefer to do it on my own, in my own way and they're not to feel guilty about me doing what they think is 'all the hard work' because I love it.

I supply drinks, nibbles etc. to keep them all happy in another room and now they are content leave me to get on with it and I'm happy too, especially when they really enjoy the results!
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Old 17-08-2008, 22:23
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I loathe it when guests turn up early ( when i say 'about 2.30' I really mean after 2.30 - preferably at least 20 mins late.)

My best friends know this & give me that leeway - or they know they're likely to catch me in my curlers or worse
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Old 17-08-2008, 22:57
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I'd like to draw a line half way up the kitchen floor and when I'm cooking no one gets to cross it.
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Old 17-08-2008, 23:52
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I'd like to draw a line half way up the kitchen floor and when I'm cooking no one gets to cross it.
great idea - I'll try it
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Old 18-08-2008, 07:15
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I'd like to wire the kitchen door handle into the mains....
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Old 18-08-2008, 07:55
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In one respect I am lucky as I have a tiny kitchen, two people in it and its full! Can't have kitchen parties though!
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Old 18-08-2008, 15:54
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My OH doesn't dare come in the kitchen when I'm cooking. He's too scared of the big knives

Most of my friends know it's polite to ask if I want help. I then say no and they either go away or sit in a corner and keep my glass topped up. Most of my friends feel the same way so we get on fine.
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Old 18-08-2008, 16:13
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It does my head i ask if anything wants anything to eat before i start cooking and as soon as i start chopping one by one they each come in.
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Old 18-08-2008, 16:17
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In one respect I am lucky as I have a tiny kitchen, two people in it and its full! Can't have kitchen parties though!
Lol - I was about to say the same thing. 1-2 people in my kitchen, and its crowded. I only wish i could get the whole family in there with me helping
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Old 18-08-2008, 16:20
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Not sure if it counts as a "person" but my kitten has taken to thinking me making dinner is play time

I dread to think what she will be like when she is big enough to jump up to the counters (although of course she'll be 'lovingly' knocked back onto the floor )
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