Kitchen tasks you loathe even though you like to cook

[moondog]

Cutting broccoli. Those little buds get everywhere and prove resistant to removal by wet or dry cloth.
Nigel Slater once said that anything which involved retrieving a heavy pan made his heart sink a little. I so get that.

I recently bought an enormous chopping board. Broccoli buds now hold no fear for me.

The thing I hate most, which luckily I don't do very often, is the soaking of rice sticks or rice noodles. It never works. NEVER. It will become too soggy, or it will remain crunchy, it will become a giant clump. It just doesn't work. Harrumph.

Cutting tomatoes. The juice makes my skin itch and the gloopy seeds remind me of tiny loose eyeballs. I have to suck it up though as I love tomatoes (but use tinned in cooking, raw for salads or for stuffing)

Scaling fish! Love salmon with skin on, but I have to scale myself - yuck!

Oh yes, enough pan drawers that you never have to stack/unstack anything would be fantabulous.

Not fond of chopping things like nuts or grating anything. Or tin lining. I need a sous chef.

When I forget to ask the butcher to 'deal with' the chicken and I open the bag and the head and neck swing out at me. Then sticking my hand up its bum and removing the various organs. Ugh. After 14 years in France I still sometimes forget, though most seem to chop the head and neck off nowadays before putting it in the bag.

Scaling fish. Double Yuck! Where to put the scales?
Disposing of coffee grouts the bastard gritty bits go everywhere
Cutting out the green bit on tomatoes where the calyx was.
Disposing of fatty tissue and blood when preparing meat.

The skins of garlic annoy me - I don't know why.

I reckon these are just gripes:
Reloading the dishwasher before running it because DH is spatially inept
Rearranging everything DH has put away in cupboards! He's lived on a boat for God's sake! He's tidy at work. Why can't he be logical about storage at home?

I am not a tidy person by the way

Peeling potatoes
Grating cheese
Getting rid of all the bits from the chopping board, after cutting a load of vege.

But the one I hate more than any other is whipping cream with a hand whisk!

peeling potatoes and washing up the pan after boiling them

the day i found frozen mash was like an epiphany for me

Peeling garlic and then having to clean the press.
Cleaning up the porridge pot

Peeling potatoes, I loathe it to a point where I just don't therefore mash rarely happens much to the dc's disappointment! Boiled or roasted with skins on on this house. In my defence they do say most of the vitamins are just under the skin.
Also swede same problem so I cheat and buy the ore prep'd stuff

Skimming off the fatty bits from the surface of meat that's boiling

Onions, they don't just make me cry, they HURT.

really annoying because I love eating them.

Agree with washing up porridge saucepan - hate that.
De-skinning tomatoes is a yawn. Also hate peeling and cutting anything large like swede.

Chopping onions and/or garlic. It's just a massive ball ache as far as I'm concerned!

Which is annoying as it's the basis of most of the things I cook ffs.

you can have mash without peeling, chop them small and use a ricer
garlic skin sticks to everything.
handling raw meat

grating cheese, I use the grater on the processor if it is a reasonable amount now.

I like peeling potatoes! I like peeling most things but that's just because I couldn't afford a good potato peeler for ages and had to use a knife. It's a total novelty now!

I absolutely can't stand doing the dishes. Loathe it. I have been known to use plastic cutlery and paper plates to avoid washing up. DP is lovely so now the deal in our flat is that I'll cook if he does the dishes. Win win

Skinning tomatoes
Peeling potatoes
Sieving anything
Doing the effing pots

Making white sauce. It's a pain and yes I've tried lots of the shortcut ways and think they are all a pain too.

Peeling tatties.
Wiping up grease spatters from around the hob after frying something.
Sifting flour or icing sugar (it goes everywhere!)

Grating carrots. Hate hate hate it

Making mashed potatoes.

I will spend 3 days preparing food for a party but I will not make mashed potatoes. I hate it. I dislike preparing potatoes in general and we don't have them very often. I buy posh pre-made mash. I make most things myself and am happy to spend hours in the kitchen. But not mashed potatoes.

Hate cleaning the grill

Ditto the oven

Lining cake tins, love baking but loathe this part of it along with buttering said tins