Silpat and anything silicone. The thought of cleaning wobbly surfaces or crevices makes my avoidance skills kick in.
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The trash can. I just washed mine today-plunked it down in the bathtub that was filled with Lysol water.
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Sexist alert The original cuisinart food processor tops my list of products that must have been designed by men. I’m sure it could have been designed with fewer surfaces, crevices, nooks and crannies. I actually seldom use mine because I hate having it fill the dishwasher or take up counter space while drying after use.
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After washing dishes for more decades than many of you have been alive, I have finally simplified my life and made peace with difficult meal clean up. All dishes, silverware and tools are washed or put in dishwasher. Just about all pots and pans are filled with hot detergent water and left to molder overnight on the stovetop, letting time do the work for me. In the morning, most wash up with just a swish of a “non-scratch dish sponge”. Or a final swipe with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.
For burned-on grill pans, after a night’s soak, they come clean pretty easily with either stainless steel pot scrubbers or Lodge’s purpose-made gp cleaners.
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Pasta bowls and utensils when we have a dish made with Parmesan cheese added as a topping at the end. French onion soup bowls.
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Yeah, me too. This is my most avoided appliance unless I am doing a quantity that would take way longer to do with a knife (plus the process of washing the FP parts).
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I just wish they were made out of something more substantial. On flat cast iron I heat up and use a SS fish spatula to scrap everything to the rim, then wipe out with paper towel pieces (because my Lodge scrapers have pretty much disintgrated pretty quickly with this use).
While the GP designed things work ok on GP’s, I’d really prefer a SS one that really has the curves of the Lodge hardware (and would pay extra for it).
100% agree.
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I hate cleaning poultry remnants off a stainless steel metal baking rack. Anything oily or greasy off of silicone. Bacon grease or congealed meat fat from a glass jar or container. The blender canister is another annoying one. And washing kiddie placemats is pretty gross. Also the garlic press.
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I use to dislike cleaning that one too and would use my mortar and pestle, a rolling pan and a ziplock bag etc.
Anything to avoid cleaning the FP.
That is, until I learned a little trick.
Rinse the container with blade then add warm soapy water put it back on the unit and pulse several times. Rinse then add water, run again to see if you missed any soap residue. Works like a charm everytime.
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Nice! Will try next time
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Really don’t mind cleaning my cookware. Just consider it all part of the process
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I’ve long since ceased to care about the OUTSIDES of my cookware. Some years back, when Martha S ruled all things domestic, while watching cooking shows from several decades prior, I noticed the old, stained pots and pans the chefs used. In contrast, Martha and just about everyone on American TV who succeeded her, appeared to have brand new cookware for every episode. So now, as long as the exteriors aren’t greasy, I’m good.
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