Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The steam is fierce in a restaurant dish area

I was shockingly young when I learned that checkered slacks are most comfortably worn with the waistband pulled to somewhere around the sternum. Also, early bird dinner specials are both a great value and a wonderful opportunity to visit with Walter and Gladys.

Ok, one could rinse mildly soiled dishes or nonstick pans in cold water but for serious stuff, yeah, hot (source: have worked in a kitchen, washing dishes)

Everyone should experience a stretch of time working in a kitchen, washing dishes. Even if you're currently ensconced in some tenured academic position, I would urge you to take a brief sabbatical (3-6 months) to go work in a kitchen, washing dishes. You will learn a lot about the world, and also yourself. And also about the particulars of water temperature as it relates to the proper cleansing of flatware.

Also you can relieve yourself while washing the dishes and nobody will notice

Define 'relieve'.

Am I about to be shockingly old when I learn that means something other than "urinate"

That is but one bodily function of many.

Nothing like taking a mid-wash number three.

This is notable and embarrassing: I just learned that analgesic medication is just anti-pain medication (as in an-algesic) and does *not* refer to anal suppositories (as in anal-gesic).

you've been putting tylenol up your ass?

“topical analgesic” would raise a lot of questions

this was just last week https://m.benzinga.com/article/15144838

That's like confusing diuretic for "diarrhetic"

This may be the right moment to ask: what does "For external use only" mean?

Don't drink it

Like this idiot at a party one time did to the bottle of poppers I offered them

https://i.ibb.co/7gXN10B/FB-IMG-1579912993024.jpg

I've worked in bars and kitchens! (not solely washing dishes though). But we had a dishwasher or used the three sink method with sanitizer. I am still staying on team not hot water.

We just broke the old dishes and used new ones

I will take one of those high pressure hand sprays though. Love.

xpost this is like I told someone I freeze bananas to keep around for smoothies and a week later he was asking me how I peeled the banana while it was frozen.

this is one of the few times I've ever felt Yerac is wrong, yet I support her right to wash dishes in the preferred method

yeah, I am probably wrong. I asked my spouse if he knew that you were supposed to wash dishes in hot water and he goes "Why?" And then he got all technical like he knew this already and this morning I noticed the hot water in the kitchen sink came on automatically after he washed the dishes. Traitor.

lol!!!

Don't drink it

It probably also means "also don't shove it up your ass or through your urethra"

See I was about to say that but not so elegantly

These are the areas I was worrying about.

Black Sabbath wrote a song about the dangers

"N.I.B." stands for "not in butt"

Yerac...

cold dishwater
frozen bananas
cold hot sauce!

something is going on here

don't forget drinking only ice coffee.

oh god. I had hiyashi ramen for dinner and realize I prefer all asian noodles cold too. But I do take scalding hot showers. I should probably wash dishes in there.

lmao

irl giggle

That you can tell whether an egg is good or bad by putting it in cold water. If it sinks it's good, if it floats it's bad.

you can also tell a bad egg by putting it on a scale, if it weighs the same as a duck it’s probably made out of wood

when was the last time an egg you broke open was bad?

I once heard someone on the radio saying that they'd you can use eggs well past their sell by date and one of his aunties during ww2 .. blah blah.. This immediately debunked by an eggspurt who pointed out that the water test works because the contents of rotten eggs start turning into gas!

There's just no eggs juice when it comes to that.

Everyone should experience a stretch of time working in a kitchen, washing dishes. Even if you're currently ensconced in some tenured academic position, I would urge you to take a brief sabbatical (3-6 months) to go work in a kitchen, washing dishes. You will learn a lot about the world, and also yourself. And also about the particulars of water temperature as it relates to the proper cleansing of flatware.

I worked three dishwashing jobs for a combined 2.5 years or so and tbh everything useful or interesting it taught me (hot water good for cleaning, smoking is the only legit way to take a break in food service, the proper way to cut various veggies, boss makes a dollar I make a dime) could have been gleaned in less demoralizing ways ways. Also one of them had a slanted-floored dish pit that resulted in a 5-6 year period of me limping pretty bad if I stood in one place too long.

I used to eat century eggs all the time when in China, then one day something in my body said "this is ammonia and therefore poison" and since then can't eat them without retching, it's kind of a shame I guess.

I think OL was essaying a bit of sarcasm in that post, Simon

I am in awe of your service time tbh

I just realized last week that the famous romance author is not a man called Daniel Steel, but a woman called Danielle Steel

Washing hands in cold water just as good as hot!


https://www.bbc.com/news/health-40118539

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/13real.html

no way! warm water is far more effective at removing dirt, that is pure dept of coldness propaganda.

Hands aren’t frypans iirc

do you fry dirt?

(replying to Alba)

sorry sic!