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Original poster

To think DW serves dinner in a non-optimal way

94 replies

TheRevengeOfMrGrumpy · 28/01/2013 23:23

Sunday lunch for example:

Lift plate1, peas, carrots spuds, meat etc
Lift plate2, peas, carrots spuds, meat etc

Takes ages.

When I do it (majority of time):

Lift carrots - plate 1, plate 2, plate 3, plate 4, plate 5
Lift peas - plate 1, plate 2, plate 3, plate 4, plate 5

Seems much much faster and food is hotter when it arrives on table.

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Original poster
TheRevengeOfMrGrumpy · 29/01/2013 00:07

Aye but would you prefer it hot or luke warm?

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Monty27 · 29/01/2013 00:08

I take it you're sitting on your arse while this is going on. Aw do you have to go over a bridge to collect it.

Hee hee weegie, I've only been deleted once.

HopAndSkip · 29/01/2013 00:11

YANBU, maybe she likes the accomplishment of finishing each plate one at a time? Grin

SouthernComforts · 29/01/2013 00:11

You think you have problems?

My dp fully serves up one plate of food, brings it to the recipient, goes back to the kitchen, gets the next plate and repeats!

It takes forever!

And he's a bloody chef.

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TheRevengeOfMrGrumpy · 29/01/2013 00:12

Well monty you'd be wrong. I'd be laying the table, dragging the kids away from the Wii to wash their hands and also getting their drinks. Then they sit there waiting for 5 mins.

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tethersend · 29/01/2013 00:13

It's hard to get the arsenic into one person's food the way you do it.

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TheRevengeOfMrGrumpy · 29/01/2013 00:14

southerncomforts - I forgot to include the cutting up of the meat, spuds and large veg for our toddler, before she then goes on to serve the rest. I say I'll do that and to carry on serving the rest, but apparently, I can't cut up food like she can Smile

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PootlePosyPerkin · 29/01/2013 00:16

thethersend Grin.

YANBU OP, I do it your way too. Don't spend too much time showing your DW the error of her ways though will you? There are bigger things to worry about - such as the way she layers her trifle Grin.

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TheRevengeOfMrGrumpy · 29/01/2013 00:20

I could complain about how long it takes her to bring me my morning cup of tea too, but I keep quiet about that. I suspect it's locating the Bromide from the hiding place that causes the delay.

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DupontetDupond · 29/01/2013 00:20

Hmmm... It's the time aspect for me. If I was sitting waiting for my nice hot lunch and it was taking forever I'd feel like the punters in the legendary Two Soups...

Though I'm sure your DW has all her own teeth...

CuriousMama · 29/01/2013 00:22

Easier to have staff imo.

Monty27 · 29/01/2013 00:26

'Well monty you'd be wrong. I'd be laying the table, dragging the kids away from the Wii to wash their hands and also getting their drinks. Then they sit there waiting for 5 mins.'

Oooh Mr Grumpy.

It's you isn't it, the troll that mn likes and allows, it must be.......?

Jojobump1986 · 29/01/2013 00:26

OP, you'd hate my PILs. When they have family gatherings my FIL serves up the main dish at the table - usually a roast so he'll carve each portion as he goes - & then hands the plate to MIL who takes it back into the kitchen to add the veg. Often FIL hasn't finished carving the next portion before MIL gets back with the previous one because he gets distracted talking to someone & MIL has to remind him to keep going when she returns. Usually the first person served has finished eating before PILs sit down with theirs. It's excruciatingly slow!

BupcakesAndCunting · 29/01/2013 01:40

This is what hostess trolleys are for.

Monty27 · 29/01/2013 01:51

Bups Grin

Oh I need to see Abigail's Party again.

DoItToJulia · 29/01/2013 01:53

Hmmm...why do you allow such madness in your home?

Go the whole hog and put your foot down with a firm hand and impose your superior dinner serving way upon her.

Tut.

Moominsarescary · 29/01/2013 01:56

I don't care as long as I'm not the one doing it

EugenesAxe · 29/01/2013 02:33

Meat onto plates. All other food into heated vessels on table & everyone helps themselves/passes around.

This has the added bonus of teaching division & politeness/ awareness of the needs of others.

My PIL divvy all up in the kitchen & it drives me slightly bonkers 'Does Eugene want beans? Will the children eat parsnip?'.

Lueji · 29/01/2013 02:57

Serve food????

Away from the table????

Bluegrass · 29/01/2013 02:59

LTB!

cafecito · 29/01/2013 03:06

yanbu, it'll go cold. I avoid this conundrum by not owning any plates, cutlery, or cooking equipment = no washing up, no cold food, no domestic disagreements. My christmas dinner was like this though (was sat there for 30 mins while they faffed about) - v annoying

cafecito · 29/01/2013 03:06

but in general, agree with Eugenes

littlewhitebag · 29/01/2013 06:19

Mr Grumpy. Your way is correct as that is the way I do it and I am always right in matters such as this.

AppleOgies · 29/01/2013 06:43

Her way is highly inefficient... I think from now on you will have to do it, else you'll all be eating cold dinners.

TotallyBS · 29/01/2013 07:02

YANBU

Doing in my/your way I can ensure everybody gets equal amounts of whatever.