Leaving things 'to soak'

[MrsCorbyn]

A roasting dish might need a little time to soak before washing up. Perhaps a pan where food has been allowed to burn. But a plate!!? A saucepan you boiled pasta in? A sodding tea cup??!

These things will not benefit from being left on cooling water for a sodding day because someone is too bloody lazy to just wash things up as they go. Just wash it up you lazy bastards and then PUT THINGS AWAY!!!!

AIBU?

I can see the point if you put cooking pots to soak while you eat then wash up afterwards, but soaking for 24 hours in a shared house is pointless and inconsiderate.

Yes, I made a casserole earlier this week and the dish definitely needed a bit of a soak in hot clean water with washing up liquid before I could do anything with it. Burnt Cooked on food was nice and soft an hour later, washed it up properly before going to bed. Ditto the roasting tin for the week before.

Toast and tea, no way.

YANBU on the rare occasions that my DH does the washing up he will soak anything that may require a little scrub, saving it for me when I get home following a 12hr shift. Drives me potty.

so what's happening with the she-devil flatmate, OP? not derailing threat at all

THREAD. Jeez.

I'm not sure you are cut out for communal living op. Think of your blood pressure.

I'm not either.

Oh yeah I do it when it actually needs it or for the main cooking pot / pan while eating but I tend to wash things straight up as I go along because, crazily, things are really very easy to clean when you wash them before food has time to set/harden.

Leaving things to air dry too. Why ?! Use a tea towel and wash them regularly them out it away. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh.

My DH does this, or worse - leaves the roasting pan in the oven, unwashed. Why, oh why?

What's wrong with air drying? We wash up in the evening and put it away in the morning when it's dried overnight. It saves time drying and one of us can be doing another job (by that I mean drinking wine or watching TV) while the other is doing the washing up.

She devil and her 43 men are as usual. She knocked on my bedroom door then walked in despite no response / I'm busy / go away we are going to sleep about 6 times last night. Came in to kitchen while we were cooking to chat despite us doing best to ignore while still chatting together. Not helpful either when the kitchen isn't too large and she takes up a lot of room (fact not bitchy). She is bemoaning the fact the random second bloke she shagged on Sunday hadn't called so she rang him constantly (3 x per 5 minutesish) while we were there. She can't understand why he won't answer...

Boy flat mate had a big go at her though so that's an improvement. The other is abroad. The entire house is now hostile towards her yet she still does not get it. Lightbulb situ is resolved though, shoe polish on one and removal of the other. The cow had the audacity to ask me to turn my fairly quiet radio off at 8.30am this morning which I think is a fairly ok hour on a Tuesday.

Purple - if it is put away in the morning or as soon as dry I could deal with it but 98% of time it's there until someone else uses it and the kitchen looks a mess

Anyone doing this is just hoping some other muggins (me) will come along and wash it up. We all know the game.

In my not very hunble opinion there is NOTHING WORSE IN THE WORLD than being faced with cold slimey "soaking" water in the morning, especially if the dish cloth has been left in there.

I had to tell my OH about this a few weeks ago as I was considering LingTB about it

We leave things to soak, where's the harm.
My dh is decorating today so he got up and soaked the lasagne dish left from last night, I got up later and voila washed it up in seconds.
It's now draining and will be put away when the kitchen gets finished later.

I do this :)

I tend to have a bowl of hot water then add things as the day goes on. Makes everything easier and quicker to wash later, because there's no bits of food or coffee dregs going in the clean hot water when I wash up.

We have no dishwasher, and if I wash up as I go along my hands get very sore repeatedly being wet and dried. So I save it until I have a "load" once or twice a day.

I leave them to air dry on the drainer because tea towels aren't the most hygienic things, unless you use a fresh one every time. Then I can put everything away in a job lot.

So yes, YABU :)

I might be guilty of having a draw of tea towels and only using one for a day before it goes in the wash. Cold slimy water with old bits of slimy food is the worst, seconded only by a full draining board that collapses into mayhem when you try to extract an item (that someone else hasn't put away).

Sorry, I've decided, I am being completely reasonable.

If you're using hot enough water, stuff will air dry really quickly and you won't need to dry up. Something my partner fails to grasp (apparently the hot water hurts his hands, poor flower).

Introduce him to your friend Marigold!

Ahhh the not putting away!!! DP likes cooking - and often cooks complex things that no-one else in the house wants to eat. He will dirty 3 or 4 pans, various implements, food processor etc etc ...
We have a dishwasher but he doesn't think we need one. He does do his own washing up ...he does it under a running tap (and sometimes things aren't that clean but seeing as he uses the food processor more than I do it is mainly his problem). He then stacks everything on the draining board and leaves it....until I crack and put it away. Worse I find plastic things don't dry in the dishwasher - so when I empty it I will put them on the rack just to dry off properly. He won't put them away before - he puts all his wet washing up on top - in a crazy tower (food processor lid got broken cos it fell off the pile once)...ahhhhhhhh
I am guilty of leaving cat food tins soaking the sink - rinsing them out for recycling, fill it with water and forget about it - for hours .

In a shared house we once had a serious meeting where we decided we all had to do the same thing - either we all washed up as soon as we had used something - or we all left it and then washed whatever we needed when we needed it . (We chose the first option - that just meant that our lazy arse flat mate took to leaving dirty plates and cups in his room instead...so we still never had any clean plates and mugs... )

What annoys me is DP who forgets to put things, with food remains in them, to soak when he's emptied them. Dried on rice & pasta, twice as difficult to get off..

Air drying is far more hygienic than towel drying so do it if you're really bothered about scrupulous hygiene. I do it because I loathe sopping wet tea towels.. and all that environmentally unfriendly extra washing to do.

But leaving a bowl full of cold soapy water to fester with all the dishes in it - horrible, horrible!

I love my dishwasher, cuts out so much irritation over differing washing up habits

I won't turn the tap on for anything less than a sink full. I'm a complete bastard. :) BUT I do all the washing up so hey ho!

I've just left a pan in to soak.

I run the hot bubbly water and leave everything to soak for about 20 mins, the washing up is so quick then. I also leave it all to drain as it saves the job of towel drying! But the whole load fits on the drainer.

Leaving stuff for 24hrs is grim!