{"id":1804,"date":"2010-04-21T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2010-04-21T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:08:34","slug":"not-help-with-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/comment\/not-help-with-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants to Not Help With The Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blog Post ~ David Bakke<\/h3>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

Today I want to re-introduce you to David Bakke<\/a>; he is the author of Your Finances 101<\/a> blog, where he writes about Saving More, Spending Less, and Generating Extra Cash in Your Life.\u00a0 In David\u2019s guest blog post today he guides us through the typical house dinner party, some of the trials and tribulations, and what it means to clean up, before, during and after. This is David’s second guest post on CCR, his first was a post on Frugal Shopping<\/a>, on March 3, 2010.<\/p>\n

Who Wants to NOT<\/strong> Help With the Dishes?<\/h4>\n

By David Bakke<\/p>\n

So, the big family dinner has just finished, or the big meal at the dinner party you\u2019re attending.\u00a0 You\u2019re amongst friends (or family) yet the nervous glances around the room begin.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone has that horrible feeling in the pit of their stomach.\u00a0 They know it\u2019s all coming…and they cannot run, and they cannot hide.\u00a0 It\u2019s those words we all hate to hear out of the host\/hostess\u2019 mouth\u2026<\/p>\n

Who wants to help with the dishes?<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I bet you would all love to attend the dinner parties thrown at my house.\u00a0 Because, after the eating is done, rather than throwing out this awful question, I usually break everyone up with the following\u2026<\/p>\n

Who wants to NOT help out with the dishes?<\/em><\/p>\n

You see, buy utilizing some simple concepts and a little common sense; you can cut down your after-dinner dishwashing to virtually nothing.\u00a0 You can reduce it to a little more than a quick rinse of a few plates and popping them into the dishwasher.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always thought that I had a Food Network show floating around with this concept, but for now, we\u2019ll start off with an article here.<\/p>\n

One of my real passions is food<\/strong>.\u00a0 I love to cook, and I love to eat an incredibly well-prepared homemade meal.\u00a0 Most of this passion came from my work in corporate restaurant management, where I spent the better part of twenty years.\u00a0 Moreover, most of that time was spent running kitchens.<\/p>\n

Three things I learned in that time<\/strong>.\u00a0 In order to run a successful kitchen, you have to be organized<\/em>, you have to be clean,<\/em> and you have to know the fastest way possible to get everything <\/strong>done.<\/p>\n

Well, these habits never left me when I left the restaurant business.\u00a0 I still use this love of what I learned then in my own kitchen today.<\/p>\n

One thing that always has surprised me about these parties\/gatherings is the incredible pile of dirty dishes that are left in the sink after a meal\u2019s preparation.\u00a0 It is like a monkey hanging on your back<\/em>.\u00a0 Not only did somebody bust their behind preparing some great food, they have this mess to look forward to.\u00a0 What drudgery! <\/strong> What a downer to the whole meal!\u00a0 And, if there\u2019s a party going on, who\u2019s the one that gets punished?\u00a0 Who gets sent to the kitchen to clean up the mess?<\/p>\n

In my kitchen, it\u2019s nobody.<\/em> I didn\u2019t have to entertain for too many groups of people (or even simply prepare a large family meal) before I realized that this system is for the birds.\u00a0 I quickly asked myself the question:\u00a0 \u201cWhy can\u2019t this stuff be cleaned up as you are preparing the meal?\u201d<\/strong> And it wasn\u2019t too long before I came up with the answer.\u00a0 And the answer is a resounding \u201cIt can\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me make a few brief points about the whole thing.<\/p>\n

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  • While you are preparing your meal, not everything is finished cooking at the same time<\/em>.\u00a0 Therefore, cleaning this stuff up as you go is much more doable than you might think.\u00a0 Moreover, much more desirable than having pan after pan pile up in the sink.<\/li>\n
  • All pots, pans, and dishes clean up much more quickly and easily when\u00a0 hot<\/strong>, rather than when whatever food is on it has had time to dry and affix itself like super glue to the surface.<\/li>\n
  • Water does wonders<\/strong>.\u00a0 For anything that is empty and has come off the stove or out of the oven, if you cannot get to it at once, get some water in it.\u00a0 This saves an incredible amount of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Having said that, this is how I do it.\u00a0 As the dishes are prepared and finished, as I said, they don\u2019t finish all at the same time.\u00a0 Therefore, I either move the entire recipe into the dish it is being served in, or fill up my serving dish and get the rest into a leftover container.\u00a0 Then, the pan goes right into the sink, where it is watered, scrubbed (very easily I might add), dried off and returned to its storage place.<\/p>\n

    Anyone who cooks at all knows that there is a certain amount of down time while you are preparing your food.\u00a0 Utilize this down time to do this cleaning.\u00a0 This process ensures you spend no \u201cextra\u201d time in the kitchen; it just eliminates all the post-meal clean up.<\/p>\n

    You will have to make good use of hot pads and towels and so forth because this stuff is hot when it comes out of the oven or off the stove.\u00a0 Use your head so you don\u2019t get burned.<\/p>\n

    Before you dismiss this idea as too much work or not being doable, simply imagine sitting down to an excellent meal that you just prepared.\u00a0 Imagine right afterwards when you clear the table that you have nothing, and I mean nothing extra to clean besides the dishes that were eaten off of.<\/p>\n

    You can simply pop these into the dishwasher and be back at the party in minutes.\u00a0 In addition, you won\u2019t have to ask volunteers to help.\u00a0 Trust me, your friends and family will love this.<\/p>\n

    Love my idea?\u00a0 Hate it?\u00a0 Let me know below.\u00a0 In addition, thanks Ryan for the opportunity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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