Was doing the dishes tonight after dinner and started thinking about my least favourite one to wash.
For me, it’s probably pot lids (moreso hand drying them) or a sieve. Air fryer can also be a bit of pain!
What’s yours?
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I second the air fryer. Pita to do.
Silicone Yorkshire pudding “tins” are a pain in the arse to wash.
(things getting stuck in the rim of) sieves
The simple spoon when the mfer splashes you like Poseidon with a vengeance
All dishes are fine with hot enough water, bar plastic tubs that have oil residue that’s nasty and I just bin em when my mum doesn’t see
Worst two already mentioned (air fryer basket and Yorkshire pudding tins).
Glass oven dishes especially the corners.
Anything plastic Tupperware etc. makes my skin crawl for some reason.
Not a dish, but a garlic crusher that you roll over the garlic is an absolute bastard.
Lasagne dish
There is surely nothing worse than washing seives.
Edit : washing not waking
Box Cheese grater. Just grate the sponge and/or myself
Those plastic takeaway containers.
We wash and re-use them, but that plastic _really_ doesn’t like letting go of grease/oil. Normally needs neat washing-up liquid on the sponge to shift it, and when we’ve had a takeaway there’s, like, 6 of the fucking things to wash.
The big roasting pan. Greasy. Can’t lift it. Can’t fit it in the sink.
macaroni cheese. nightmare to get the cheese ect off pot
Sieve, hate the fucking thing
Frying pan.
Potato masher is a pain. Also Yorkshire pudding tin.
Pyrex baking tray.
Cheese grater
Air Fryer?
Buy some dishwasher tablets – I use Fairy
Boil kettle
Add one tablet/capsule, maybe two if it’s the first time
Add boiling water
Next day, rinse and wipe to clean.
Works every time.
Cheesegraters!
Peanut butter knife. The hot water makes the smell just disgusting.
I just throw my cutlery in the sink… The cleaner comes and cleans it
And with the food, I don’t use plates, my chef puts them in paper/cardboard and seals them so they are good for about four days
I eat from there and then either bin it or put it on my worktop and my Cleaner gets it
For me – those large glass oven dishes. Heavy, impossible to wash the corners.
For my wife – she hates my glass beer tankard from ikea. And hate would be understatement. She hates it with passion.
Things that don’t go into the dishwasher
Sieve.
Seives gotta be up there top place.
Second wooden utensils if they’ve so much as looked at anything with turmeric or tomato.
3 is those stainless steel trays you get in catering kitchens (I may have ‘aquired’ some over the years 😏) fantastic for cooking with…. Abysmal for washing by hand!!! 🍳
Oven trays
Cast iron casserole dish and lid.
Sieves. Can’t stand them.
Pasta bake dishes
The “nice” wine glasses.
They’re thinner than my faith in Ruben Amorim and almost as expensive, so it’s always a very high pressure situation.
The seive. There you are, standing swishing it around in the stream of hot water, running the brush all over it, rinsing, it looks clean. You turn the tap off and put it to dry, and then you see there are at least 4 little squares with ‘stuff’ in. Ug.
Champagne flutes. Long, thin, delicate. Hard to get the sponge all the way into the bottom. Can’t get them on the drying rack in a way that doesn’t jeopardise their safety. Pain in the arse to get a tea towel all the way into them to dry them by hand.
Colanders used to drain potatoes – all the crusted residue stuck around the holes….shudder 😂
The colander after I’ve used it to shake the potatoes post-boiling and pre-roasting. I know I could just shake them in the pan with the lid, but a quick shake in the colander gets the outsides just perfect for crispy spuds.
I just hate washing the starchiness off afterwards.
Roasting tins/trays. Non stick my arse
The bacon pan. Firstly, I’m veggie so it’s only my partner’s bacon that gets cooked in it which has also polluted my veggie only kitchen. Secondly, there’s so much fucking grease in it. I wipe the worst out with kitchen roll then I wash the inside only as though it’s a little bowl with clean hot water and Fairy then I go back over it with neat Fairy and the thing never feels not porked.
Got octagonal bowls. Not a fan.
Slow cooker when it gets crusty sides 🙄😭.
Any dish after a lasagne / pasta bake
When my fiancé moved in, he brought his nespresso coffee machine. I hate washing the straws for the milk frother, those bastards make me rethink my love for coffee every single day.
We have a casserole dish that is absolutely awful. Everything sticks to it because it’s older than I am and all the coating is coming off it. And it’s huge. I love cooking with it, but I’d happily never wash it again.
I second the airfryer and the plastic takeaway pots too.
The air fryer drawer can be a pain only because of its size. Other than that it depends on how dried or cremated on whatever has been used. Dried on stuff on a sieve is a nightmare but sieves themselves are easy to clean as long as they are cleaned straight away or left in soak.
Our baking trays can be impossible to clean if the missus has done a proper job on one. I’ve been known to bin them. The deal here is she cooks and I clean and we don’t own a dishwasher. So I’ve had 20 years of washing up experience so far.
Mashed potato left over night sets like glue here. Its even worse if there is cheese in it too. So that’s my long winded answer, a mash potato lathered sieve 🤪
Frying pan.
Depends on what it was used for. For some things it’s pretty quick and easy. But if there’s any fat in there, eg. after cooking bacon, it’s a right pain in the arse to clean.
Anything that has milk in, from just boiling milk, to custard, cheese sauce…etc. it’s ok but I hate the gunk . So I just let it soak then use a scraper.
47 comments
I second the air fryer. Pita to do.
Silicone Yorkshire pudding “tins” are a pain in the arse to wash.
(things getting stuck in the rim of) sieves
The simple spoon when the mfer splashes you like Poseidon with a vengeance
All dishes are fine with hot enough water, bar plastic tubs that have oil residue that’s nasty and I just bin em when my mum doesn’t see
Worst two already mentioned (air fryer basket and Yorkshire pudding tins).
Glass oven dishes especially the corners.
Anything plastic Tupperware etc. makes my skin crawl for some reason.
Not a dish, but a garlic crusher that you roll over the garlic is an absolute bastard.
Lasagne dish
There is surely nothing worse than washing seives.
Edit : washing not waking
Box Cheese grater. Just grate the sponge and/or myself
Those plastic takeaway containers.
We wash and re-use them, but that plastic _really_ doesn’t like letting go of grease/oil. Normally needs neat washing-up liquid on the sponge to shift it, and when we’ve had a takeaway there’s, like, 6 of the fucking things to wash.
The big roasting pan. Greasy. Can’t lift it. Can’t fit it in the sink.
macaroni cheese. nightmare to get the cheese ect off pot
Sieve, hate the fucking thing
Frying pan.
Potato masher is a pain. Also Yorkshire pudding tin.
Pyrex baking tray.
Cheese grater
Air Fryer?
Buy some dishwasher tablets – I use Fairy
Boil kettle
Add one tablet/capsule, maybe two if it’s the first time
Add boiling water
Next day, rinse and wipe to clean.
Works every time.
Cheesegraters!
Peanut butter knife. The hot water makes the smell just disgusting.
I just throw my cutlery in the sink… The cleaner comes and cleans it
And with the food, I don’t use plates, my chef puts them in paper/cardboard and seals them so they are good for about four days
I eat from there and then either bin it or put it on my worktop and my Cleaner gets it
For me – those large glass oven dishes. Heavy, impossible to wash the corners.
For my wife – she hates my glass beer tankard from ikea. And hate would be understatement. She hates it with passion.
Things that don’t go into the dishwasher
Sieve.
Seives gotta be up there top place.
Second wooden utensils if they’ve so much as looked at anything with turmeric or tomato.
3 is those stainless steel trays you get in catering kitchens (I may have ‘aquired’ some over the years 😏) fantastic for cooking with…. Abysmal for washing by hand!!! 🍳
Oven trays
Cast iron casserole dish and lid.
Sieves. Can’t stand them.
Pasta bake dishes
The “nice” wine glasses.
They’re thinner than my faith in Ruben Amorim and almost as expensive, so it’s always a very high pressure situation.
The seive. There you are, standing swishing it around in the stream of hot water, running the brush all over it, rinsing, it looks clean. You turn the tap off and put it to dry, and then you see there are at least 4 little squares with ‘stuff’ in. Ug.
Champagne flutes. Long, thin, delicate. Hard to get the sponge all the way into the bottom. Can’t get them on the drying rack in a way that doesn’t jeopardise their safety. Pain in the arse to get a tea towel all the way into them to dry them by hand.
Colanders used to drain potatoes – all the crusted residue stuck around the holes….shudder 😂
The colander after I’ve used it to shake the potatoes post-boiling and pre-roasting. I know I could just shake them in the pan with the lid, but a quick shake in the colander gets the outsides just perfect for crispy spuds.
I just hate washing the starchiness off afterwards.
Roasting tins/trays. Non stick my arse
The bacon pan. Firstly, I’m veggie so it’s only my partner’s bacon that gets cooked in it which has also polluted my veggie only kitchen. Secondly, there’s so much fucking grease in it. I wipe the worst out with kitchen roll then I wash the inside only as though it’s a little bowl with clean hot water and Fairy then I go back over it with neat Fairy and the thing never feels not porked.
Got octagonal bowls. Not a fan.
Slow cooker when it gets crusty sides 🙄😭.
Any dish after a lasagne / pasta bake
When my fiancé moved in, he brought his nespresso coffee machine. I hate washing the straws for the milk frother, those bastards make me rethink my love for coffee every single day.
We have a casserole dish that is absolutely awful. Everything sticks to it because it’s older than I am and all the coating is coming off it. And it’s huge. I love cooking with it, but I’d happily never wash it again.
I second the airfryer and the plastic takeaway pots too.
The air fryer drawer can be a pain only because of its size. Other than that it depends on how dried or cremated on whatever has been used. Dried on stuff on a sieve is a nightmare but sieves themselves are easy to clean as long as they are cleaned straight away or left in soak.
Our baking trays can be impossible to clean if the missus has done a proper job on one. I’ve been known to bin them. The deal here is she cooks and I clean and we don’t own a dishwasher. So I’ve had 20 years of washing up experience so far.
Mashed potato left over night sets like glue here. Its even worse if there is cheese in it too. So that’s my long winded answer, a mash potato lathered sieve 🤪
Frying pan.
Depends on what it was used for. For some things it’s pretty quick and easy. But if there’s any fat in there, eg. after cooking bacon, it’s a right pain in the arse to clean.
Anything that has milk in, from just boiling milk, to custard, cheese sauce…etc. it’s ok but I hate the gunk . So I just let it soak then use a scraper.