A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
I think the hole in the pot handle works great as a place to set the spoon. My friend thinks this should be illegal.
This should be illegal. The spoon will drip the juice on the oven. Plus its a hazard if someone happen to swing near the spoon, it's game over.
Not just on the oven, the juice will run up the handle and get everything dirty. Might as well be stirring with your hand at that point.
Are... are you not supposed to do that?
Not if it's hot you could burn your hand
Yea why not just put it on a plate to the side?
This is the way.
If someone else is in the kitchen while I'm cooking, its already game over, for them.
Why would anything be swinging over a hot stove?
Long hair, loose clothes, a rogue dick. You never know.
This person's clearly never gotten their dick stuck in an unsupervised bolognese, and it shows.
Probably my favourite sentence I've read this week so far! Thanks! π
We've all been there.
People don't realize
To me, a big spoon trapped like it can act as a lever, is not a good idea in a kitchen, in general. I Myself pull a small plate to put my kitchen tools on it.
You said you're the only person in the kitchen when you're cooking, so do as you will.
The day you have kids in your home, please put a saucer or something next to the stove to rest your spoon on, and turn your pot handles towards the back corner, so you can reach them but a small person can't. I've seen the damage boiling oil did to a small child's face and scalp. Even a year later it was still horrific and painful.
Yeah, spot on. This is just stupid and dangerous. And apparently for folks who don't understand gravity.
As you said, hot oil... dripping down a spoon handle.... directly towards another flame.....
This is some hobbit-level shit.
That is the best compliment I've gotten in a while.
I've been doing this for years, it's super convenient.
The comments in this thread are fucking hilarious.
Yes, this thread contains a lot of great banter and I'm here for it!
This will drip on both handles (spoon and pot), I just put it on top of the pot handle facing down when there's no nearby plate.
Gravy trebuchet!
Ah, the superior siege utensil.
I remember seeing this in one of those "lifehack" videos a while ago
Yet another example of a "lifehack" that makes someone feel smart, but is actually pretty stupidly "solving" a problem that doesn't exist.
The solution may be stupid but it is an actual problem. Do I really want to make an extra dish to clean just to have a place to put the spoon? That's annoying.
Just use the dish you're going to eat from if you're really that lazy. This isn't rocket science.
This only seems like a problem if you've never encountered an actual problem.
Just use the dish youβre going to eat from if youβre really that lazy. This isnβt rocket science.
You're assuming the spoon has something I'd want to mix with the main dish on it, that I'm going to eat the food I'm cooking immediately, etc.
This only seems like a problem if youβve never encountered an actual problem.
Little annoyances add up and small improvements to one's approach to dealing with things can add up as well. You know what makes those "actual problems" worse? Having to deal with a bunch of minor irritations at the same time.
Kind of weird that you seem to think it's ridiculous to want to improve anything that isn't a matter of life and death and earthshaking consequence.
It's not an improvement to have sauce dripping down the handle of your spoon and onto your saucepan handle, or to make yet another hazard over the stove by wedging a spoon precariously into a handle hole. That's my point. There are a million simpler ways to address this that don't make a bigger problem. I find it stunning that you are too lazy to rinse an extra plate, but weirdly insistent on the least logical, awkward, and ridiculous way to avoid it. But hey, let your freak flag fly.
Itβs not an improvement to have sauce dripping down the handle of your spoon and onto your saucepan handle, or to make yet another hazard over the stove by wedging a spoon precariously into a handle hole. Thatβs my point.
I started my comment with "The solution may be stupid but". That being the case, how could you possibly interpret it as me directly arguing for that particular solution being good?
I find it stunning that you are too lazy to rinse an extra plate, but weirdly insistent on the least logical, awkward, and ridiculous way to avoid it.
I find it stunning you are weirdly insistent on interpreting what I said in the absolutely least charitable way possible even though there's no reason to do so and I literally started my comment acknowledging that solution may be "stupid".
Actually, it seems like people on Lemmy are even worse about this than reddit which takes some doing. At least don't interpret stuff in ways that contradict what the person literally said a single post ago. Sometimes it's a little ambiguous, but not in this case.
Oh, so you're arguing for no reason whatsoever. Alrighty, then.
so youβre arguing for no reason whatsoever.
This is some classic projection. What I said boiled down to "this solution may not be a good one, but there's some benefit to solving the problem". In your quest to find a way to criticize what I said, you ignored the first part of what I said entirely.
You seem to be one of those people who will just never admit it if you make a mistake. Doesn't matter if you accidentally said water is dry, you'll never admit water is wet until the end of time. I actually never understand why people dig in like this. It's not like you're saving face by refusing to acknowledge the mistake, it's not like you're going to convince me there's any doubt. Everyone makes mistakes and the best way to deal with them is to acknowledge it early and move on.
Yeah, i also saw this in some lifehack video
None of my spoons or spatulas fit in the hole.
look at mr big spoon here
I'm more mr small pan to be honest.
That really bothers me for some reason. You know, they make wooden spoons with notches in them so you can set them on the lip of the pot. That a lot less of a spill hzzard than what you've got going on.
Note: house is only not covered in objects because the cleaners are literally still here.
I wish my cleaners did that good of a job.... wait... that's me. I guess I need to fire myself.
I'm calling the Kitchen Police!
Apparently if you rest a wooden spoon directly on the pot it will prevent it from boiling over.
Not sure if it's brilliant for its convenience, or just should be illegal since it just provides a "flying" object with would be so easy to stumble on.
People seem to expect a lot of wild action over an active stovetop. That hasn't so much been my experience....I mean after college.