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I don't really watch, or listen to, TV. Like I say I listen to podcasts:

- Linux Outlaws (Linux / Open source, often very funny)
- Off the Hook (Hacker* news and culture)
- Off the Wall (broader political commentary by the main Off the Hook guy)
- Novara Media (Libertarian Communist political commentary and theory, very entertaining and sometimes funny, for what is fairly heavyweight material)
- The Circled A (Anarchist commentary and theory)

I do listen to Radio 4, but less than I used to. Podcasts are much better, they're about exactly what I'm interested in!

* NB - Hacker culture is not about "hacking" into systems or accounts, it's about understanding technology, modifying things and building new things in a playful, experimental way. Hackers of this sort often say that the term "hack" is misused by the mainstream media and what the media calls "hacking", hackers themselves call "cracking". I do not engage in "cracking".


Anyway, I'm not hungry so I shouldn't be in this thread :|
 
I find the trick is to run a basin / sink full of hot soapy water when you start getting things out to prep up the food. I even do this first thing in the morning before my tea - I fill the kettle, switch it on and then do the hot soapy water for any dishes, to wipe down work surfaces and cleaning as you go along. Pop thing in as you go along and inbetween tasks take them out rinse, drain, dry and put away again.

That makes it sound long winded, its not really, its just getting used to a system- process. I hate a dirty, messy kitchen - insist on a bleached sink every night before bedtime too! Honestly it all takes minute when you have a system in place. I never have to spend any length of time cleaning as everything is clean in the first place from my little daily systems lol

Just call me martha ;)
 
kate said:
I find the trick is to run a basin / sink full of hot soapy water when you start getting things out to prep up the food. I even do this first thing in the morning before my tea - I fill the kettle, switch it on and then do the hot soapy water for any dishes, to wipe down work surfaces and cleaning as you go along. Pop thing in as you go along and inbetween tasks take them out rinse, drain, dry and put away again.

That makes it sound long winded, its not really, its just getting used to a system- process. I hate a dirty, messy kitchen - insist on a bleached sink every night before bedtime too! Honestly it all takes minute when you have a system in place. I never have to spend any length of time cleaning as everything is clean in the first place from my little daily systems lol

Just call me martha ;)
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Hello martha :)

Yeah that's all well and good, but when I'm cooking I use the sink to wash veggies, so I can't be putting dirty dishes in there. Plus my drying rack is usually full of dishes, so I can't wash anything till the dishes are dry! I really hate drying dishes with a dish towel. For one thing, it doesn't take long for dish towels to start getting smelly and they impart a smell to the dishes. For another, dishes dry themselves if you leave them long enough.

So my problem is not lack of a system, I've got a system! It's laziness, too few sinks, a sensitive nose and too small a drying area :)
 
knock said:
Hello martha :)

Yeah that's all well and good, but when I'm cooking I use the sink to wash veggies, so I can't be putting dirty dishes in there. Plus my drying rack is usually full of dishes, so I can't wash anything till the dishes are dry! I really hate drying dishes with a dish towel. For one thing, it doesn't take long for dish towels to start getting smelly and they impart a smell to the dishes. For another, dishes dry themselves if you leave them long enough.

So my problem is not lack of a system, I've got a system! It's laziness, too few sinks, a sensitive nose and too small a drying area :)
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Excuses, excuses, excuses :p

There's a solution to everyone one of your whines mr lazy system :!

How can you be arsed to have all that clutter and mess around you, especially in a wee kitchen?! I take it your a hoarder too...

A dish towel should be out for 1 day tops btw. You minger :D

Scared to even mention bathrooms, toilets and personal towels next hmmm...barff
 
Fucking hell, you'd have cried if you'd seen the state of the dish towels at my old shared place Kate. Would have rather dried me dishes with a day old pair of my own pants than those half the time. Kept my own in me room.

Just bought a nice sparkly set for my new place =D
 
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I take it your a hoarder too...
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Hoarding is a spectrum. I admit I do fall somewhere on the spectrum! But it's not at the far end. Somewhere in the middle. And I'm working on dehoarding. I certainly am not good enough to appear on "Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder" or "Britain's Biggest Hoarders". My hoarding is quite minor in comparison to some people.

A dish towel should be out for 1 day tops btw. You minger :D

Scared to even mention bathrooms, toilets and personal towels next hmmm...barff
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But.. but.. but... I don't use my dish towel, so it doesn't get dirty!

My toilet is very clean. Most of the time. It's very clean right now. My bath, well, it washes itself when I have a shower, silly! And I only dry myself once I'm clean, and I'm very thorough at cleaning myself, so my towel isn't dirty, or smelly!
 
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I knew it! Eadd students grow precursors on kitchen linens.

Having raised 2 sons, I am far too ou fait with human remain growth on domestic fabric thank you.

Re the hoarder thing, I'm sure lots of us have TOO much STUFF, things we have no need for, hold for sentimental value or just because we think it might be useful sometime in the future. It's all bollocks and makes a bloody mess and clutters the place up making housework and cleaning difficult. A good gut out of your useless consumer crap is very healthy.

I will admit to being slightly ocd about being organised and having a place for everything. Time is precious and I can't be arsed looking for stuff, losing things or generally living chaotically.

Do you bleach your loo every day knock?

Fuck I need locked up don't I? There are 3 bottles of bleach under my sink...

On topic - I have made a smoky bean and chorizo chilli for quesadillas tonight and have enough also for 2 boxes for the freezer.
 
Yep haha, students are the fucking worst. I'm not brilliant myself and I'm in my mid-20s so it's clearly a student thing in general and not just a teenage thing. We had two bathrooms in that house and we naturally divided in two, so the two women got the downstairs with the bath and the blokes had the upstairs with the shower room and separate toilet.

I couldn't use the upstairs toilet if I was sober, it was that bad. It was however a brilliant aid to vomiting if you came home a bit too drunk.

ANYWAY, that chilli sounds bloody lovely, think I'll be having your basic beef chilli tonight or possibly something to do with pork chops. Ain't eaten yet today so wanna just go wolf down everything in sight.
 
kate said:
I will admit to being slightly ocd about being organised and having a place for everything. Time is precious and I can't be arsed looking for stuff, losing things or generally living chaotically.

Do you bleach your loo every day knock?

Fuck I need locked up don't I? There are 3 bottles of bleach under my sink...

On topic - I have made a smoky bean and chorizo chilli for quesadillas tonight and have enough also for 2 boxes for the freezer.
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that sounds very tasty, Martha.
 
I never knew about the one day thing for dish towells. But as i have been through weeks on end without using them, it hasnt been such an issue. Im on top of the washing up in the kitchen now at last though.

For dinner tonight ive got something out of my freezer, i cant tell what it is yet in its frozen state, but when it defrosts it may turn out to be turkey steaks. Theyll go good with oven chips and peas tonight.
 
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Yes, I am a bleach fiend knock, though I have lowered my standards a lot, after all I live with a bloody man don't i? Fucking socks on the floor....lets say no more!

Snolls, that boy bog sounds rank...enough said!

Have you got yourself a slow cooker yet? Pork chops done in it with lil mustard, honey and apples (even a splosh of cider) etc are lush. Swirl creme frais at the end for yummyness.

Slow cookers are the lamas balls.

In the meantime you better get yourself a quick tasty snack to control those munchies
 
Come to think of it, I do use cistern bleach blocks. So in that sense, I do bleach my toilet every day. Every flush!

Homo and germs have co-existed for millions of years. We don't need to kill them all. In fact it's good for the immune system to have some exposure to germs.

Yes, some germs are dangerous, but I'm happy that my level of cleanliness doesn't expose me to dangerous germs. I am very rarely ill, I don't get stomach upsets or anything. I don't eat while having a shit :D

I also have always worried about bleach being bad for the environment. It seems that it's nothing like as bad as I have been thinking:

wiki said:
A Risk Assessment Report (RAR) conducted by the European Union on sodium hypochlorite conducted under Regulation EEC 793/93 concluded that this substance is safe for the environment in all its current, normal uses.[26] This is due to its high reactivity and instability. Disappearance of hypochlorite is practically immediate in the natural aquatic environment, reaching in a short time concentration as low as 10−22 μg/L or less in all emission scenarios. In addition, it was found that while volatile chlorine species may be relevant in some indoor scenarios, they have negligible impact in open environmental conditions. Further, the role of hypochlorite pollution is assumed as negligible in soils.
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So I may bleach a bit more now.
 
I also did have the impression that bleach was harmful to the environment - get all catholic guilty about my bleach use too!...I do try to minimize the amount of cleaning products I use though and stick to "old skool" stuff like vinegar, salt, lemons, soda crystals, bicarb and stardrop to mix my own cleaning stuff up. Sugar soap is a wizz grease cutting cleaning powder :D

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That kinda stuff doesn't cost a lot either btw, also lets you play chemical scientist in the kitchen!

mydrugbuddy said:
Its the stomach upsets that finally got me to get my kitchen under control. That 99.9 % germ killer isnt all that its cracked up to be. Or it must have been that 0.001 germ that got me several times. :\
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Aw bless you <3 sound like you've been making a massive effort to sort your kitchen out. How's it going, are you feeling any better?
 
Oooh, never thought of doing pork chops in the slow cooker, nice one =D Yeah I got one, though it's at my mate's house for the time being as I moved out of my last place having left a shitload of kitchen stuff behind and my nice housemate kindly boxed it up and gave it to my mate rather than chucking or robbing it. He got a tenner for that.
 
That sounds fucking lovely SHM.We are trying to save money where we can at the moment so last night my flatmate cooked up enough chilli to last us for at least a week.
It's not to bad for a couple of days but it does get a bit tiresome by the time you've been eating it every day for a week.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Lamb steaks, parsnips in honey, sprouts. It must be Christmas.
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V. festive! Still never had sprouts that taste nice, though I'm reliably informed they can do when done right. Might try perfect them. Mum buys em every year for Xmas dinner, cooks them, then complains they taste shite. Every year, without fail.

I had pork chop with mushrooms, cheddar cheese, and a bit of rosemary alongside a jacket potato and three chicken dippers, just because. Debating having a bowl of yoghurt now, just re-discovered the massive vat of passion fruit and peach stuff that I got from Lidl a week or two ago. Lovely stuff it is <3
 
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