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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Sometimes you need more than one teaspoon during a meal? Say if you have soup and tea and hate to eat soup with the tablespoon.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

I did this for a few years and it was amazing.

[-] st0v@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

as a single dad living with one teenager kid, the two plate strategy was a total game changer.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

He dishwashes daily? How inefficient.

[-] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Unless they have enough plates and utensils and are willing to risk a mold problem to save up plates with gunks of food over the course of a week to run the dishwasher at good efficiency, it's far simpler, cheaper, and more hygienic to just wash them by hand.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

it's far simpler, cheaper, and more hygienic to just wash them by hand.

In that amount, yes. But usually, dishwasher is more efficient and hygienic

[-] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

In hindsight I should have used "or" instead of "and".

But of course! I really miss having a dishwasher since I flew back home from the US. I know that they absolutely do a better job at cleaning than humans can, and loading it up properly and keeping it organized is such dopamine hit for my OCD brain.

If you live alone, though, I'd advise against using it, or at least get a way smaller dishwasher.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago

It happens sometimes.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

We're a family of three with a 19 year old, so our cutlery drawer looks just like this unless we ask him to bring all the dishes from his room.

[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That struggle is real and universal! We found utensils buried in our back yard, at a friend’s house… it’s nuts!

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

He's 19 years old, and you have to ask him to bring his dirty dishes out from his room because he is leaving them all in there?

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Dude I'm 38 soon and I have to bring dishes in from the WFH office once in a while. Watching some YouTube during lunch or whatever. Then back to working. Then family comes home and it's up out of the chair to start dinner and whatnot, sometimes the dishes get forgotten and left behind.

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I can understand that. That's normal. But a 19 year old eating alone in their room so much, and collecting all of the dishes in the household, so the family has none and has to actively seek them out and ask for them is what's odd to me.

[-] PDFuego@lemmy.world 101 points 2 days ago

I've got 2 of everything just in case. Dirty dishes can't pile up if they don't exist.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago

You underestimate some of us

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

He is not your friend, he is just keeping you around for a time when he can't find some else and feels the urge to kill again.

[-] cellardoor@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

Excuse me, it goes: Fork->Knife->Spoon->tea spoon.

I don't know what this is but it's certainly not in keeping with the lord's way.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right chopstick -> left chopstick -> porcelain soup spoon -> packets of unused plastic foldable forks that came with the instant noodles

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[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

That's one beautiful teaspoon

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's all he needs

[-] AraJuSanja@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I actually love this. It’s clean organized and simplified!

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lol two spoons and a fork, what a waste. i only use one spoon for everything.

edit: ooh i get it now, they have a significant other who sometimes visits. (big spoon, small spoon)

[-] Steak@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I use a small spoon for ice cream. Big spoon for cereal though I'm not fuckin around.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I was so bad at keeping on top of washing my dishes in Uni that I absolutely decided to have exactly 1 plate, cup, mug,and each cutlery. Can't have more dirty dishes than you have dishes.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

This is the way. Friends think I really like this one bowl. Truth is I like an empty sink, so I force myself to wash it by only owning one bowl.

[-] Szyler@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Just don't leave them in the sink and you can do the same with multiple of each, saving you the wash up. Just out them straight into the dishwasher. Saves energy, water and time.

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Knife should be on the left and the spoons on the right. Fite me.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 20 points 2 days ago

You think I'm worried about fighting someone that has to reach over the gentry silverware to grab the knife?

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[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I mean it at least forces you to do your dishes

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

you can honestly get by with just a spoon. need a butter knife? use the spoon handle. need to jab something? just scoop it instead. need to cut something? just cook it a little more so it gets soft

[-] Loce@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Been there done that

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

OP is a fancy one with their actual silverware. When i was a bachelor, it was box of plastic forks, box of plastic spoons, and box of plastic knives.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Saving up for singular silverware would probably save you money in the long run

[-] randombullet@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

I usually get them from take out places or the cafeteria. Never bought any single use items during my bachelor years.

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[-] ALilOff@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Did they borrow these from a restaurant. I just find it more menacing to just buy 1 of each, searched online and I can’t find a single reasonably priced utensil set that only sells 1 of each in the set.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

2 words: Thrift. Shop.

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[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

He never has dishes

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That would make sense, it's the only ones iv ever bought so I wouldn't know

[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 15 points 2 days ago

See, if I had that guys place you would find these 4 utensils in the sink because I'm a monster

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Is your friend Bill Dauterive?

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

No pie server - what kind of barbarian is this?

[-] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

They live alone, why have a pie server if you are just gonna eat it yourself?

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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You cannot convince me this man is not a serial killer.

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