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Splitting open a new bin bag...grrr
Is there a special technique for this?
I've been twiddling a new bag between my thumbs for nearly ten minutes now and there isn't the slightest hint that the opening is gonna open...
Try the other end then
You’re welcome 😉
lick you thumbs
Working from home!
Simple household tasks which are extraordinarily difficult
Loading the dishwasher, according to our kids.
#ThereIsOneRightWay
Turning off the cold water feed to the cistern by turning the tap put there to turn off the cold water - doing that didn’t involve an emergency call out plumber as the tap started pissing water all over the floor and a £140 bill oh no.
Opening a bag of flour without ripping a hole in it.
Turning lights off when you’ve left a room. Seems impossible for everyone bar me
Opening a bag of flour without ripping a hole in it.
Ditto cereal, pasta, Bisto and that ridiculous new packaging on Tesco own brand cheeses - work of the Devil all of them.
Taking the sticky label off the one cell thick, perforated bread bag on fresh bread and hoping that it won't instantly rip to shreds.
Spoiler alert.
It will rip to shreds and suddenly appear much smaller than the loaf that you're trying to get back into it.
Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it and pray it doesn't come in one too!
Removing stickers from fruit, or not noticing them and eating them.
Changing the ****ing duvet case.
Removing stickers from fruit, or not noticing them and eating them.
I recently learnt that those stickers are (supposed to be) edible...
Changing the **** duvet case.
Inside out method!
Finding things where you left them. See also looking for something in the place it has been kept for 10 years only to find it now lives somewhere else for no reason whatsoever…
Changing the **** duvet case.
Inside out method!
Yip. My mum taught me how to do this in one move. As far as I’m concerned this makes me some kind of ninja 😃
Remembering what I came into the kitchen for
Remembering what scissors are for.
The dishes. They sit there waiting to be done, just when you’ve done the day and eaten some food and just want to zone out and relax. Then they glare evilly at you in the morning, starting the day off with a dose of regret. I hate dishes.
Remembering what scissors are for.
Finding any of the 3 pairs of scissors that I know are in the house.
Remembering what scissors are for.
Girl I used to share with cut her pizzas up with scissors.
Crazy world.
Getting a slice of ham out the packet.
I'm convinced they deliberately fold the ham slices in the packet opposite to the peel direction.
Tearing the corner neatly off any packaging and it not tear the length of the packet leaving the kitchen covered in dry pasta/ rice.
Also children and light switches
Trying not to run with scissors in hand.
Girl I used to share with cut her pizzas up with scissors.
Harry Tuffins cafe in Churchstoke they used to cut breakfast sandwiches in half with scissors😮
The badlands between the west midlands and mid wales is a very strange place. 🤣
stwhannah
Full MemberThe dishes. They sit there waiting to be done, just when you’ve done the day and eaten some food and just want to zone out and relax. Then they glare evilly at you in the morning, starting the day off with a dose of regret. I hate dishes.
I pile dishes in the sink bowl. And then I pile them on the worktop. So by the time I actually think "I'll do the dishes" it's all a complete pain in the arse because there's no space to put everything and there's too much in the bowl to actually wash them. So I decide not to and then make it even worse.
And then when you do finally do them, there's only bloody more the next day!
With 4 young kids - every single ****ing one of them.
What’s wrong with all of you? 10mins on a bin bag? How do you not fall down more?
Wiping down the worktops. I just give up at this stage. I've already scraped and rinsed everything, loaded it into the dishwasher, put away stray bits of food etc. The last step is always the worktops. I absolutely hate it. Dunno why, but I do.
On the other hand is there anything more satisfying than putting the wrapper label in the first bin bag of the roll
Definitely duvet. Especially superking as its nearly but not quite square
Changing the **** duvet case.
This 100%! Definitely my least favourite job. I can do the inside out technique, it’s just fastening the buttons with my big thumbs that is the problem. Takes me an age!!
Cleaning the garlic crusher. I hate them. My wife loves them, because it makes it easy to use garlic. She doesn't wash the ****er up though. Little silver bastard.
Changing the **** duvet case.
I perfected a technique of putting the duvet cover on and making the bed, with me in it, in just a few seconds. Its a pretty hectic, violent action and requires a bit of space and a big wingspan. On occasion a light fitting gets broken. The lie down afterwards is appreciated though.
I recently learnt that those stickers are (supposed to be) edible…
Everything is edible at least once.
I've been wanting to rant about modern mixer taps for ages... They splash water everywhere. No matter what is laying beneath them, the water from a modern tap will instantly find it and use it to eject water upwards and outwards in some random direction either covering me or the ****ing wooden worktop. And not just that but having to plan ahead for when you want hot water or cold water because when you want different temperature water it takes at least 30 seconds to come through.
Cleaning the garlic crusher. I hate them. My wife loves them because it makes it easy to use garlic...
They're not as easy as the garlic that comes in a squirty tube.
Jesus christ.. Garlic crushers?
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
Bloody animals.
I want my STW membership refunded!
Jesus christ.. Garlic crushers?
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
Bloody animals.
I want my STW membership refunded!
You need to stay and educate the heathens
Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it and pray it doesn’t come in one too!
Years ago I was in somewhere pretentious like Lakeland where they were selling a special knife for opening those blister packs. It was in a blister pack.
I’ve already scraped and rinsed everything, loaded it into the dishwasher
Can I just ask, why the heck does anyone rinse stuff that's going into a dishwasher?
Would you pre-rinse normal crockery etc before washing by hand? No? Then bung it in the magic washy cabinet and let it do its stuff. Pro tip, the dishwasher probably has its own pre-rinse cycle.
Also to answer the OP. Picking up *literally* anything in this house.
...blister packs...
Yeah, those as well. Which "profession" decided they'd be a good idea?
Changing the hoover bag (yes, yes bagless hoovers, whatever...)
Did the people who design vacuum cleaners never actually sit down with the people who design the bags to find designs that actually complement each other?!
I’ve been wanting to rant about modern mixer taps for ages… They splash water everywhere
One word. Get a tap diffuser.
Game changer.
Cleaning a 'Self Cleaning Non-stick' oven. I just get a man in now every 6 months or so to do it with wizardry out of the back of his van.
Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it and pray it doesn’t come in one too!
Old school can openers, work perfectly and don't come packaged in the infernal stuff to start with.
Getting a five year old Funkette to eat her breakfast. Or is that just this morning.
Can I just ask, why the heck does anyone rinse stuff that’s going into a dishwasher?
Are you my parents? Scoffing and tutting whenever they see me pre-rinsing dishes, despite the fact it's always me who has to come round and unblock their dishwasher drain when they block it...
Getting the month old baby to stop crying and go to sleep.
Getting the month old baby to stop crying and go to sleep.
That’s a task I like! I recommend singing. You can’t sing properly if you’re tense, they feel your body relax and they relax too. Also a sort of mr motivator style side to side step with squat dip in the middle. Aww. I could trade you my dishes for the crying baby, but there’s probably rules about that sort of thing.
Removing a Weetabix biscuit from the paper wrapper without scattering flaky crumbs all over the kitchen worktop. I could swear that each comes with a spring loaded scatter gun.
Putting the bins out obviously. As for the pre-rinse thing, it's a good idea if you don't want your plastics staining with tomato soup, curry or Chinese red sauces. Also find if the plates go in caked in food they don't come out properly clean although that leads me on to another simple household task which is extraordinarily difficult, stacking the dish washer so that the water can actually get to everything......
Years ago I was in somewhere pretentious like Lakeland where they were selling a special knife for opening those blister packs. It was in a blister pack.
Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it
Simply use a tin opener on the edges. You're welcome.
I could trade you my dishes for the crying baby, but there’s probably rules about that sort of thing.
I’ll take it.
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
Depends on the amount of garlic "punch" you need in the dish Slicing/chopping for a milder approach, crush for moar garlic flavour.
EDIT Crying baby needs a non-marking white rubber mallet. One tap and quiet returns. 😀
Changing the **** duvet case.
This is the only answer on this thread that makes sense.
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
Goodfellas prison-style.
Garlic should be crushed with the flat of your knife blade then chopped in two directions
Crushing breaks the cell walls to release the flavour
Yarp, crush then dice. Only way to do it.
Depending what it's going it determines how finely you dice it.
I'll get these when my park pizza cutter breaks, which by all accounts should have been 15 years ago. But it's still going strong.
Can I just ask, why the heck does anyone rinse stuff that’s going into a dishwasher?
Because you're supposed to?
Would you pre-rinse normal crockery etc before washing by hand?
Yes. You might relish sloshing your hands around in foody farage but I don't.
That’s a task I like! I recommend singing. You can’t sing properly if you’re tense, they feel your body relax and they relax too.
I recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
Probably why the 4 year old calls anyone with red hair 'Molly'.
Those evil packets that have the little “peel here “ tab on them, only works if you have a pair of pliers or scissors to hand. Do the idiots who design these things ever test them? Oh, and the resealable pasta bags that instantly split from top to bottom when opened, Grrrrr.
@Cougar have a like for correct use of farage in a sentence. (Johnny & the Baptists?)
I expect that pre rinsing will correlate with poor portion control. All that's usually left for us is a smear of jus, veloute, reduction or plain old gravy.
have a like for correct use of farage in a sentence. (Johnny & the Baptists?)
I don't recall the source, there was a thing a few months back where people were trying to come up with a word for the detritus-laden horror water oft found in the bottom of toilet brush holders. Might even have been on here.
The weekly meal planner.
The moment my wife says we got to do it my brain empties of the hundreds of different dished I've ever had. I like food but I can understand why some people eat the same meal everyday.
Peeling a piece of clingfilm off the roll.. they always start ok, then seem to get bashed on the end and you peel an ever-shrinking piece, then you have to find the end and pick it with your fingernail… its worse than dented sellotape!
The definition I know is the secretions at the bottom of the kitchen bin = farage. From the aforementioned Johnny & The Baptists
The blister packs for those little CR2032 (or whatever they are called) batteries that go into lights and HR straps. Bloody impossible to get into and then you have to remember to remove the little peel off tab on the battery or your HR monitor won’t work and you will be left wondering why… I’m told😉
Garlic should be sliced thinly.
100% this. And then crushed with the side of the knife to release the oil
That’s a task I like! I recommend singing. You can’t sing properly if you’re tense, they feel your body relax and they relax too.
I recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
Probably why the 4 year old calls anyone with red hair ‘Molly’.
I used to use Neil Young’s Harvest or After the Goldrush. Singing along to Out on the Weekend worked a treat.
@cougar - rinsing before the dishwasher.
Because you’re supposed to?
Unless you've left an entire chicken kiev on there. Or half a stroganoff etc.
One word. Get a tap diffuser.
Counting seems to be trickiest, given the evidence!!
Eyetwice
Crush then chop you heathen
I'll just settle for remembering - anything...
Regarding the garlic comments above.
Turning lights off when you’ve left a room. Seems impossible for everyone bar me
Still pondering this. How do you turn the lights off after you’ve left a room?
No you aren’t.
Most of us aren't in the US.
Still pondering this. How do you turn the lights off after you’ve left a room?
"Alexa, living room lights off."
Or push the lightswitch. It's really easy.
The instructions with our dish washer were really clear. You have basically bought a huge rinsing machine. Pre rinsing just wastes time , energy and water. What’s encouraged is scraping.
I’d say matching plastic boxes and lids can be a challenge in our house
My 3 year old did not like Vincent black lighting 1952 sing at bedtime this week. I did 🙂
They Johnny cash version of hurt did work. I've stopped singing it as he learns to talk.
Now he mostly asks for ring of fire
Taking used crockery to the kitchen and emptying any waste into the kitchen bin that you pass on the way to the sink sideboard.
Putting washing away.
I have no idea which clothes belong to which child so take ages to check labels.
My working memory skills are very low.