21 People Are Revealing Their Friends' Absolutely FOUL Kitchen Habits, And Holyyyyyy Crap

"I knew two very good cooks who worked professionally in kitchens. It was the cleanup at home that was baffling. Clean dishes air-dry on the grimiest, NEVER-washed dish towels. The pot holders, just caked with food. The cutting board is going way too long before cleaning. If a dish was used, but not dirty dirty, just a quick rinse. The other story is about a relative who would use her dogs as a shortcut to washing dishes, as in that licking the plates clean meant the dishes were good to use again. Would see so much dog hair floating in my glass."

"My ex's family does not believe in salad dressing. Salad was chopped lettuce, cucumber, and bell pepper. I hate raw bell pepper. And they would not allow any type of salad dressing in the house. My ex and I lived with my mother-in-law for about a year, and I would buy salad dressing, only for it to be gone the next day. After disappearing bottles, I even tried getting the small single-serving packs, and my ex's niece stopped me one evening and said that it was disrespectful to put dressing on the salad because it was like saying the taste of the salad had to be covered up."

"I can not be anywhere near someone who does the dishes with water and no soap 🤢. I recently found out that my dad's current girlfriend uses soap 'only when it's oily,' and I swear that any time I've eaten at her house, I will rewash my dishes first. It's disgusting! Y'all are eating EACH OTHER'S SALIVA and whatever mouth bacteria are residing on your utensils and sides of cups/bowls 🤦."

A range of unhygienic and unconventional kitchen habits appears across households. Trained cooks sometimes neglect home cleanup, leaving dishes to air-dry on never-washed towels, using food-caked pot holders, delaying cutting-board cleaning, and only rinsing lightly used plates. Some people permit pets to lick plates clean, resulting in visible dog hair in drinkware. Certain families categorically reject salad dressing, viewing it as disrespectful to the salad's flavor. Other households wash dishes with water only or use soap only for oily items, prompting guests to rewash dishes to avoid saliva and oral bacterial contamination.

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