At least he recognized that he should clean the blood and grease every time. I’ve seen plenty of ovens that suggest that their owner would not be as diligent.
If it’s carbonized then is sterile!!!
If you don’t, it’s going to smell really bad in a few days. I suspect that’s what led him to start cleaning it regularly. That’s not something a 29 year old is prone to do without motivation. A nasty smell is good motivation.
Advantage of being a vegetarian I guess. I don’t have to clean blood out of my oven.
I stayed with vegetarians a while ago. I’ve never seen an oven so vile and rancid. Turns out veggies are perfectly capable of turning an oven into a carbonized cesspool, no blood required.🤢
Uni halls with international students who have zero real world skills, and are used to the staff/maid cooking for them. They started 3 fires and ruined so much food before giving up on using the kitchen altogether.
I had to go to the student housing council or whatever when I had an international student take the room in my on campus apartment mid year while I was in college. Dude didn’t speak English and my roommate and I were NOT paying for the damage some rich kid did because he couldn’t clean up the water from the toilet and sink. Also, who the fuck wants to constantly deal with standing water in your bathroom??
When I was at university one of my flatmates actually started a fire serious enough to require the emergency services to come and put it out. Somehow she managed to set a towel on fire because for some ungodly reason she put it in the microwave. Apparently the solution to a burning towel is to throw it out of a sixth floor window, where it landed in an apparently extremely flammable bush.
How does someone who can’t speak English, get a college degree that is as good as what a regular student gets?
Oh, yeah, they pay their tuition in cash.
I think we’ve all been there when it comes to doing something or other at home in a way which turns out to be obvious stupid when pointed out, especially at the beginning.
I use cook my ramen noodles in the bowl I would eat them out of
Looking back that’s incredibly stupid but my thought at the time was, “I got to put the noodles in something, how about a bowl?”
So I’d put the noodles in a bowl (glass or porcelin or whatever they’re made out of these days), pour water in, put it on the stove
Lucky the bowl never exploded on me
Why a pot wasn’t the first thing that came to my mind I’ll never know… Weirdly, I don’t know when I realized I was being stupid. Just one day I was like, “I should put my noodles in a pot”
My younger one learned this lesson very dramatically when a glass measuring cup full of ramen blew up on the stovetop! No one got hurt, so it was a good lesson
I have to admit that no one ever said not to do that: it seems so fundamental. But even stuff that seems obvious have to be learned somehow
Even a pot shouldn’t be the first thing that comes to your mind. It should be an electric kettle. Or are you from the US where you can’t use electric kettles (efficiently) cos ur shitty electrical grid runs only on 120V and therefore it takes ages to boil the water lol
In Canada our electricity also only goes to 120v, but the simple solution for this is to utilize the already hot water from the water heater. The hot tap on full already comes out steaming. Add that to the electric kettle and it takes less than a minute to boil 500ml.
I’ve always been told the water from the hot water tap isn’t safe to drink due to bacterial and mineral buildup in the water heater. Not that I can drink my tap water where I live anyway (America!) but even when I lived with delicous well water I never drank the hot tap water.
That’s crazy, I’ve never heard that. I know our hot water heaters are kept high enough that bacteria can’t grow, and every source I’ve found says the other risk is lead contamination, and we don’t have any lead pipes in our house, so I’m going to assume this is an old outdated rule. Plus for the bacteria concern, it’s being boiled again anyway.
Even without lead pipes, it may be worth testing ….
- what about all the pipes bringing water to your house?
- copper pipes used lead-based solder for many years, so can still leach lead into hot water
My reason for not putting hot water into the kettle is that I need to run the water for a bit to get it hot, and that takes longer than the few seconds I’d save
1: all the pipes leading to my house are out of my control and will be sending the same temperature and purity of water regardless of what temperature I set the tap to? The water goes into my house, to the hot water heater, to the tap. Or just into my house to the tap. Either way whatever is outside of that is outside of my control and the hot water heater can’t cause the water to retroactively absorb lead from pipes outside of my house.
And as for your second point. Running the kettle from cold takes like 4-5mins. Running the hot water to max temp takes 30 secs. Running the kettle with max temp water takes 1:30-2 mins. That’s still like a 50% time savings, for a 500ml load. I haven’t tried with larger amounts than that because I don’t need more than that, but I assume that the greater the volume of water, the more time it would take from cold.
The funny thing is: The boomers, the silent generation and everyone before and after… they made mostly the same mistakes, but there was no internet around to chronicle their mishaps
We all start from zero; help them; don’t make them feel embarrassed about trying.
No, some people are too stupid. This dude never paid a single damn attention at home, clearly, and there’s a decent chance he thinks his mom will talk forever with nothing important to say even though this kid needs weeks of intensive training on how to be a sorta functioning adult.
Some people need to be shamed.
Assuming this is even real, we don’t know their home life. They appear to be asking for help.
I would still help them, yes, but at that point the price they pay is getting made fun of, too.
I’ve lived with three roommates now, all friends first and after. The first is very neat, no issues there. The second is non-binary but raised as a dude and it shows up in being a bit of a mess and lost on a lot of things, and the current is also the same but is cis and straight. At our ages, it’s just not my responsibility to constantly be delicately training men, especially as I, myself, am a privileged straight man who is at least baseline functional.
Well, that was an info dump I didn’t necessarily need. Anyway, if a friend or family said they were going to publicly shame me for asking a question, I wouldn’t be the cook I am today. Fortunately I was allowed to make mistakes and given opportunities to learn.
One of my former coworkers was like this. I was warming up my lunch in the break room microwave, and he comes in with basically a whole styrofoam take out container of spaghetti and meat sauce.
He just starts dumping it all down the garbage disposal. I’m just standing there, stunned. Another coworker comes in, sees him, and asks him something in German. I can only assume it was something like “Hey, what are you doing?” First coworker replies in German, in a cheerful manner that told me he felt it was perfectly normal. Second coworker turns to me, eyes wide, shrugs, and walks away. First coworker finishes shoving two people’s worth of noodles down the sink, and throws the Styrofoam in the trash as he walks away.
Is this going never looked inside an oven before? I’ve never understood people be that useless at life, like how cuddled were they?
When I moved into my house the things that trip me up was apparently I don’t own a corkscrew or I don’t actually know what wattage my microwave is. Not how do you use this extremely common piece of technology that was invented in 1834 (invention of gas stove) and is commonly depicted in media with proper use.
Do you mean coddled?
Definitely could be different for OP but I grew up in a place where almost no one had an oven in the kitchen so I did have to learn how (admittedly not difficult to learn)
They need to bring back home ec (economics).
Basic cooking, nutrition and finance. How taxes work, voting, credit, bills and even dealing with cops (be respectful, no sudden movements, know your rights, shut the fuck up).
How to adult for kids who don’t get taught at home.
Agreed. School focuses too much on stem. It should be there to prepare you for life. Go to Uni if you want to advance in stem.
School should also teach other basics like taxes, finance and budgeting.
And the S part of STEM is pretty important for actually understanding the issues facing voters (and our world)
And the T part of STEM is pretty important for actually functioning in the modern world of computing.
The M part of STEM is pretty important for taxes, finance and budgeting.
I’m not saying totally ignore STEM. But do 12th graders really need to know logarithms? Maybe take a few weeks to calculate your taxes instead and understand how tax brackets work.
My sister once decided to make chocolate mousse by melting several bars of chocolate in the microwave and then putting all the molten chocolate in the fridge. Thus creating one gigantic piece of bowl-shaped chocolate block. Apparently recipes have more than one ingredient, who knew?
How’s he supposed to know if nobody every taught him?
“Common sense” is rarely all that common.
‘Common sense’ usually means ‘I was taught this young enough that i don’t remember learning it, and therefore treat the knowledge as instrinsic’
Like the only reason it’s Common Sense not to put metal in a toaster is because of warnings from others about it. It’s not like our species evolved al9ngside toasters.
A lot of kids out there are neglected and taught to obey instructions, but not why those instructions matter, what they do, or the comprehension needed to optimise them.
I was hanging out with a couple at their rent house they’d just gotten and was sitting with the girl in the living room after dinner and the guy came and sat down after finishing up cleaning in the kitchen. He said it was the first place he’d lived with a dishwasher and how nice it was going to be.
I ended up telling a story about how my Mom had used regular Pamolive dish soap in the dishwasher on 2 separate occasions, and the girl laughed. The guy was like “I don’t get it.”
I explained how regular dish soap will fill the entire kitchen with suds, and he was like “I’ll be right back” and dashed out of the room.
We went in there and the bubbles were just starting to escape the dishwasher.
And ppl wonder why the younger gens are terrified of doing anything fun or risky.
Right? You do stupid once and get publicly shamed.
My sister once had a roommate who asked her what goes into a grilled cheese sandwich. She said just two pieces of bread and a slice of cheese. A few minutes later she found the roommate in the kitchen staring at a plain cheese sandwich on a plate. “Something wrong?” she asked. Roommate replied (I shit you not), “How is this supposed to melt the cheese?”
Also forgot the mayo
A little mayo on the bread, a little butter melted in the skillet
Just put mayo on the outside of the bread and use that to fry it up instead of the butter. Plenty enough oil in the mayo
I like the way mayo on the outside turns out, but it’s a pain in the ass to make it that way and not enough of an improvement over butter in the pan for the hassle
I do put it on the outside. I like the crisp mayo makes but prefer the taste of butter so I meet myself in the middle and use both. A bothersomely fast metabolism makes up for the extra fat
I baked most things on a baking sheet or just a sheet of aluminum foil.
Except pizza. Pizza I just put right on the rack because that’s the only way to get the crust crispy. But even this horrified my wife.
There are pizza trays you can use for the oven. They’re pretty cheap too.
Yes, but you don’t get the proper crispy crust
