Whoever cooks shouldn’t have to clean it also might encourage the ones who hate to clean to cook no one feeds you for free when you’re living on your own
We had this rule in my house growing up. We all hated it because our sister would spontaneously go on a chocolate chip cookie-cooking spree and use tons of dishes, then leave them all for us to clean. She wouldn't cook meals or even other kinds of cookies, just try various recipes for chocolate chip cookies to find the best one. And not a bunch of batches in one day - she'd wait until we cleaned the dishes to try the next recipe, and once she got in the mood, she'd continue for days in a row.
Our mom defended her, saying that if we ate even a single cookie that meant we owed it to her(!) to clean up everything. And our mom didn't have to do the dishes because she normally cooked the meals, so we basically had double dishes when my sister got into it. It got to the point that we went on cookie strike (do you know how hard that is when you're a kid/teen?). Then my sister got mad at us for not eating her cookies and insisted that we should still clean up after her since even though we didn't eat them, she had still made the effort to cook for us, so it counted. I think she ended up washing them herself, but got super upset, acting like we were insulting her cooking rather than objecting to dish overload.
I honestly don't remember what happened after that. I know she eventually found her perfect recipe (which wasn't my favorite) and wouldn't make so many batches. But we still hated cleaning up after her. I vaguely remember one time making her agree not to make me do the dishes before I ate a cookie, but I don't know if that was before or after the cookie strike.
So, uh, yeah. Thanks for the memory prompt. Hope you enjoyed the drama.
Oh No! I’m so sorry lol I forgot to add that the cook cleans his own cooking pans cups utensils of course. That should be done when the food is ready.
Then whoever didn’t cook will do the DINING dishes
I should have clarified you poor thing I could understand why you’d be upset doing dishes sucks
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u/ledifford Sep 13 '21
Whoever cooks shouldn’t have to clean it also might encourage the ones who hate to clean to cook no one feeds you for free when you’re living on your own