Tonight as I was making these yummy oatmeal butterscotch chocolate chip cookies I started thinking about my oddities in the kitchen.
I am a dish pre wash washer. I pre rinse all dishes before they go into the dishwasher. I also prefer to stack my pre washed dishes that I am going to hand wash on the counter. Are you a sink stacker or a counter stacker? I also always fill my left sink with my dish water and rinse in the right working from left to right.
In my kitchen we have a hand towel and a dish towel. The hand towel is usually the one buttoned to the stove. There is nothing quite so irksome as someone using my dish towel to dry their hands. Travis usually uses my dish towel to wipe toothpaste off his tie in the morning or food off his shirt. I know...I know...some things we just have to overlook. I usually get a new one out after he leaves for work anyway!
This counter is where all important things come in our house. Mail, homework, magazines...I am a piler. Yep...I pile...its what I do! Most things get stacked as "to read," "to do," "to throw away" etc...paper doesn't stick around too long at our house. Even the kids school work gets tossed as soon as is safely possible.
I have a very specific way that I load my dishwasher. VERY SPECIFIC! I love it when Travis helps in the kitchen but I usually go back and reorganize the dishwasher after he is done. I can fit is so much more the way I do it! Funny...the only person who can load my dish washer the way I like it is my Mom....hmmmmm!
Along with being a habitual piler I am also a list maker. I have a magnetic note pad that hangs on the side of my fridge. It is strictly for my grocery list. Hours after going grocery shopping the list begins again! I also LOVE post it notes!!! Oh how buying a new pack of them makes me secretly smile! Come to think of it...I think my grocery note pad is also a post it pad. I love being able to stick it onto the handle of the shopping cart. That way I never loose or drop my list! I usually have a list on a post it note of dinners that I have the ingredients for.
So there you have it...the inner workings of my kitchen mind...what is your kitchen mind like?
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I do my dishes the exact same way... pre wash before putting in the dish washer. It grosses me out if there is food on them. I also stack my hand washing dishes on the side of the sink. I HAVE to put all the dishes in the sink on the side with the disposal and then rinse them and put them in the other side before loading them into the dishwasher. HAHA So funny.... I'm also a stacker. I stack things everywhere.... I have a STACK of paid invoices/bills that I haven't put away yet cause I'm too busy to get to it. It's one of those... I'll get to that later... type of things. So funny. And yes, I got all of this from my mom too! We must have pretty awesome mom's!!!!
Oh how I do love your ways! You provide true order to our kitchen!
I hear ya on the dishwasher thing! I cannot stand to have Adam do it for me, because he does it all wrong! My other oddity with the dishwasher is that I have to put the silverware in the slots one at a time...and each slot has to have the same number of utinsils in it until I'm out. I go down the row, adding one fork at a time. Do you do that too?
Good grief I thought you were writing about MY kitchen!! Scary how similar we are.
I too am particular about washing all they food off dishes before loading em' into the dishwasher. I also love to handwash dishes. I love the feel of soapy water. I love your order to your kitchen. Everytime we've been to your home, your kitchen's always is in such wonderful order.
Do I even need to comment on the fact that I have specific ways of doing things at my house? :) We know any dish rarely makes it to the counter because I can't stand dirty dishes and can't rest if there are any. We won't even start on all of my other tendencies.
i think we were cut from the same mold. i feel like i was reading my own guide in the kitchen manual. quite frightening actually! i think you and i would make great friends!
I am the same way about there only being one way to load a dishwasher!! And yes it is just the way my mom does it, too funny!!
YOur cookies look Yummy! I'm sure your family was glad you made those!
I'm totally opposite of organized in the kitchen. You would cringe if you looked in my dishwasher! Next time we have T.H.T at your house I want to request those cookies! They look divine!! GO TO HAWAII!!!!
I have a lot of the same practices, funny! The nightmare of my kitchen is the pile of papers, Oh how I hate the papers!
Nearly identical to my kitchen! Except my mom doesn't know how to load a dishwasher. I am absolutely a pre-washer and a stacker (unless something needs to soak, then I leave it in the sink). I also seem to use my kitchen-aid in the same place you do (we do have almost the same kitchen). And I am a listmaker. You can also find piles of things all over my house - coupons, clothes, papers to be filed, etc.
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