Worst OS chore?

ubamother

brighthair wrote: »

If I left my pans on the lawn here, they wouldn't be there when I went back :rotfl:
I managed to get rid of an old sofa by leaving it in the garden - 2 hours and it had gone. If I stick a free to good home sign, nobody takes it though - maybe it ruins the fun?! :rotfl:

Perhaps none of your neighbours feel they have the good home they need to qualify to take it!!

Tibbie's_mum

Caterina wrote: »

I must be the only person in the Western world who does not own a microwave and refuses to get one! Somehow, it feels like it is not real cooking!

No you not......we don't have one and haven't since 2006, we only used it to warm the baby's bottle for 10 secs, so when it started to spark and splutter, it was dumped never to be replaced.

Memory_Girl

gingin wrote: »

Cooking wise, cleaning stubbourn pans, usually when I have made a white sauce or scrambled eggs. It always sticks.

Ooh! Me Too! Me Too!!

So much so that I got a chef (From a restaurant that sounds exactly like a cheesy cracker) to show me how to make microwaved scrambled eggs and white sauce.

Seemples!!!! And never a lump in the sauce to be seen - with the plastic bowl just needing a swish around under the tap to loosen the bits.

Memorygirl

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definitely oven cleaning as I have difficulty bending low enough.I am saving up to have one of the companies come and do it for me then it will be nice and clean once more.I have a Remoska so I don't often have to use my big oven anymore but it still needs a good clean I'm afraid

phizzimum

Caterina wrote: »

I must be the only person in the Western world who does not own a microwave and refuses to get one! Somehow, it feels like it is not real cooking!

no another one here! used to have one but only used it for defrosting food or heating up milk for coffee. seemed an awful lot of space to devote to a gadget we used so little. people are always telling me that I could buy a cheap one - they don't get that it's not the money it's the space!

champys

frugal6 wrote: »

Have to agree about the compost caddy yuk. I hate having to put my hand into to wash it afterwards even with my rubber gloves on!

Have you tried lining it with old newspaper before you start filling it? I use a plastic 'hygiene' bucket with a lid for the compostable stuff and always line it first - that way when it's full the stuff just pops out without sticking to the bottom and sides, and it is easily rinsed and cleaned.

Alison_Funnell

Any form of housework. Honest.

Given the choice I would do almost anything else.

Sadly I am not.

Pitlanepiglet

I've been trying to avoid typing this for days....I keep misreading the thread title and reading it as "Worst OS !!!!!s" (that's with a Wh at the start of chores if it gets censored!) ....sorry!

valk_scot

Caterina wrote: »

Cleaning the fridge! Ground level small fridge, kills my back and knees. Always full of mud at the bottom because we get veg from the organic delivery boxes and they are always quite muddy.

Wash the veg before it goes in the fridge? Apart from anything else cleaned veg actually keeps longer because you're removing a lot of the soil moulds and any bugs and slugs. And garden soil carries a LOT of foul things that you shouldn't have in your fridge, like faecal matter from small mammals and the resultant E.coli, animal urine, fungal spores etc. Organic just means no pesticides, not no germs!

Yes you'll wash your veg anyway but in the meantime there's a lot of potential for cross contamination in there, tbh. I've got an allotment and haul back a lot of muddy veg and it gets first wash in the utility room sink, trimmed if necessary then either kept in the cool utility room or if it has to go in the fridge then it's either bagged, boxed or as a last resort, wrapped in newspaper. But really, most non-leafy veg keeps very well in paper bags (make your own from newspaper) in a cool dark place.

valk_scot

Dazi wrote: »

Mine is the recycle caddy, I get the idea of putting the scraps into it but it turns my stomach when I have to empty it, the idea is that we empty it straight into the recycle bin, tried that and in the summer two weeks of leftovers = nasty creepy things multiplying in the bin - are allowed to wrap it in newspaper though.

Newspaper spread over work top, empty caddy into it, cue my stomach contracting, all those teabags, potato peelings, left overs etc I know its OS to recycle but sometimes I just want to chuck it all into a carrier bag and put it in the rubbish bin

Line it with a small binbag or carrier bag (with no holes), then a layer of newspaper folded into a bag shape. Lift out, fold over top edges of newspaper, tip into compost bin, including newspaper which will rot down perfectly well, rinse bag if necessary, reline caddy.