So many times I take a plate/bowl/whatever from the rack in the kitchen only to find it dirtied with leftover food stains and shit, and ants crawling all over it, cos it wasn’t washed properly previously. And I’d grab a spoon or fork from the utensil holder only to find it dripping with oil or leftover food stuck on the bottom. Just gets on my nerves how unhygienic my mum can be sometimes.
In Canada my housemates and I washed up after ourselves after each meal, and if I ever wanted to grab something to eat I could simply rinse the plate under running water and it was sparkling clean. Here, I have to use a soap and a sponge to clean them each time before and after every meal.
And sometimes when my mum cooks she’ll serve the food in the dirty bowls/plates/whatever if I don’t remember to check and wash my own utensils before she’s done cooking. Just gross. Then she gets annoyed when I keep reminding her about how dirty the plates and everything is and how she has to check if they’re dirty before putting food in them. And I get annoyed because she just doesn’t care about how ***** unhygienic and dirty it is.
Also how hard is it to wash a plate clean after a meal so that there are no leftover food stuck on it? FFS. Seriously. Everyone in my family washes up after themselves (usually) and I have no idea who the annoying culprit is but damn it, I’ve told them multiple times about it and still no one gives a shit. Unfortunately for me I’m slightly more hygienic and this really puts me off.
Squeeze some soap onto the sponge (or the plate), use the sponge to scrub BOTH sides of the plate, rinse, DONE. So simple but something someone in my family is incapable of doing -.-