You can send him to me for remedial training. The 100 level course is very clear - the appropriate response is “yes dear.”
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Funny!!!
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Having house guests is rare for us- our house is small and not set up for it since I’m self employed and work at home primarily (with a ton of inventory taking up any space that could accommodate guests,) but on that rare occasion or even just when people are hanging out here anyone is welcome to use any thing at any time. Even nice stuff is just replaceable stuff. Even the one total absolute $h!t houseguest we had is more important than a knife or frying pan.
In my younger days lots of friends in bands crashed at my places and were always welcome to use anything. Rarely was anything ever broken. Definitely not something I’m willing to be upset about.
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Awesome outlook!
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Our place is too small so it would make me crazy. I don’t like this about myself, but in general I loathe people in the kitchen when I’m cooking. Maybe if they’re helping chop stuff or it’s a holiday and we’re cooking together and everyone has their task. But that’s rarely the case. Usually it’s me cooking and peeps in the kitchen trying to chat me up while I’m doing it. If they ask what they can do I say “mingle with the guests”. Seems to work. It’s why I think open kitchens look really fly, but could NEVER have one. I’d end up wielding a knife at someone.
But, on another note. Did I read some of you don’t like people doing your dishes? WTH? I’d love for someone to do my dishes!
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Ha! Hardly a saint…re: the dishes - we’re opposites there. But I would gladly come to dinner at your house and drink wine while watching you cook. Then I would happily do your dishes, save your sharp knives from abuse and ensure your drains wouldn’t clog! 
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Deal!
Okay, now, those are my favorite guests. I do do kid sleepovers. But they have no interest in using my kitchen.
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Yah, on the flip side I don’t want to stay at someone’s house. Having to be polite and social 24/7? A holiday for us is a hotel or Airbnb and showing up for whatever the host/ess has planned for the day.
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Okay, after I posted my grumpy opinions I read more of others’ lovely, happy-to-have-everyone-in-my-space opinions. I feel like more of a grumpus and now antisocial too. I’m really not. I swear. 
I love entertaining and making people happy, and I don’t have a problem with people touching or using anything I have and please feel free to do my dishes (unless you’re one of @meatn3’s mom’s caregivers 
). I just have a real problem with space and people hovering when I’m cooking. Idk why. Oh, and staying at hotels gives us a chance to decompress from the HUGE, really fun, but chaotic family functions.
Okay, that’s enough confessing from me this weekend. Looking forward to seeing what everyone is cooking this month!
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I don’t think you’re grumpy OR antisocial- in fact you don’t scare me one bit 
. It is a hindrance having too many in the kitchen trying to help, especially in smaller spaces. My problem is I get too distracted and have a hard time staying on task and meeting timelines. I def do best by myself or with DH since we’ve been cooking together a long time now. But I do try to roll with things, which sometimes means a time-out and a little more wine…
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This is reminding me that I am neither traveling to, nor having anyone in my kitchen for Thanksgiving. I’m doing Thanksgiving for two, when I am usually in the MIL’s kitchen helping her do it for 30!
I’m thinking about starting a thread, but I think about a lot of things.
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If you start it, I will probably join. Don’t have the Thanksgiving culture here, but for 2, at least I can manage to have some fun.
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Doing it! Couldn’t get excited about sheet pan dinners, but this might be interesting.
HA!! So true!!!
I am looking for the complaining about other people cooking thread. I don’t know if this is it, but I can’t hold it any longer. I think @Saregama had one too.
I am happy to have someone sharing the frustration of meal planning and cooking on the daily, but I bought a tri tip this morning to grill tonight, without realizing it was not my night, and that tri tip has been boiling ( not simmering) for more than an hour.
A tri tip!
Fortunately it was on sale, but one of the last two.
I don’t think I can go on! I’m going to try the serenity prayer.
Serenity Now!
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Wow!
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Uh oh @shrinkrap - I feel your pain.
Was cooking a special batch of chicken Marsala that I was taking to work for a friend’s b-day; an out of town friend was over when this was happening. I cooked the chicken, and when it was done, I put it on a plate & covered while the ample sauce was reducing slowly. After taking a quick shower, and checking on it, discovered she’d helpfully put the meat back in and it was, yes boiling away. Couldn’t help it, but I did react, took it out again, and proceeded. I really hate overcooked proteins, and of course my plan was to put it back in at the end to warm through. Yikes!
ETA: there is another thread called Crazy making in the kitchen due to a spouse/partner/roommate - something like that.
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