Draining boards are for draining

[IvorBiggun]

Scintillating I know, but draining boards are for putting your freshly washed items on to dry. They are not for used tea bags, dirty cutlery, discarded mugs (the dishwasher is right fucking THERE you lazy fuckers), bits of scrunched up, dirty kitchen paper or any other filthy detritus.

I may have spent all day fishing crap off my clean washing up while catering to the whole world and his lazy arse dog. WHY do people do this? So unreasonable

Happy Christmas 🍷

First to put my head above the parapet and say YABU. A great thing about draining boards is that they're so rugged and easy to wipe clean, plus they drain into the sink, so they are a sensible place to put wet and dirty stuff.

Obviously people should put things away or throw them out if appropriate, and also obviously never put dirty things anywhere near the clean ones.

OP, it seems to me that your problem is that your family are just lazy generally. If they were pulling their weight in other ways, then dumping their dirty things on the draining board might not wind you up so much. Doesn't bother me at all if dh has spent all morning fixing my car and then dumps the greasy car parts on the empty draining board. There are plenty of stupider places he could put them!

Wet and dirty stuff?!! Nooooo!

Only another couple of days to go where I must resist the temptation to say “Put it in the FUCKING dishwasher!!! What is WRONG with you?!!”.

I deserve a sainthood

Draining board detritus is unacceptable in any language. Why the fook would someone actually go to the trouble of scrunching up kitchen roll then putting it there? Bet it was greasy baking tin shite all over it. YANBU.

MIL puts lardy tins in cold water 'to soak' overnight. It makes a thick, stinking soup that coats everything in sight - including precariously piled draining board - she then leaves it there to marinade for days but will give the suppurating jus a quick soss with the world's stinkiest scrubbing brush.

I often put dirty stuff on mine, but then I never wash up anything in the sink as we have a dishwasher. Easier to wash down.

We have a dishwasher although you would never know from the stack of dirty plates in my prep area and dirty cups on the draining board. The draining board is just above the dishwasher.

The rest of the worktop is unused. Obvs

I haven’t killed anyone with a cold turkey drumstick. Yet.

The draining board is just above the dishwasher. There's your mistake. our draining board it to the R of the sink and our dishwasher to the left, under a bit of work surface.

Really of course the only solution is two dishwashers, one emptying, one filling.

OP i think you've been to my house today

GoingRogue I think we may actually be married to the same man. My lovely brand new ergonomic wooden spoon I bought myself for baking is now stained with beetroot.

IvorBiggun

Only another couple of days to go where I must resist the temptation to say “Put it in the FUCKING dishwasher!!! What is WRONG with you?!!”.

I think ^^ is what you need to do, complete with explosion. Otherwise what has always happened will always happen...

I don't use my draining board for draining. I use it as a kitchen surface, great for defrosting frozen food etc. I don't wash anything by hand.

OP you are completely and utterly correct and nbu at all.

I don’t even leave the washing liquid out on mine after use, it goes in the cupboard. That might be a bit weird though....