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I hate when you have some fruit on your counter and it looks really good from the top, but when you pick one up, the bottom has rotted, leaking some rot liquid around the bottoms of the others, so you have to throw them all out. Blech.
oh yeah.. I stuck my finger right through the bottom of a rotted tomato yesterday. It was gross. The top looked good, underneath, not so much.
I don't hate to touch anything in the kitchen. I'm just as at home separating raw eggs with my fingers as scooping out guts from a freshly killed that morning game bird with my bare hands.
My BIGGEST pet peeve though is hair. I HATE TO SEE HAIR on any surface of the kitchen. It drives my family nuts when i spend the first five minutes of prep time scouring every surface and cooking implement for hair.
I hate the way salmon feels--the flesh and the skin. When I fix salmon for my DH (I hate the taste of it too), I dump it in the pan and move it around with a fork.
I don't like the feel of other fish, but salmon really bothers me.
For me, it's cold wet coffee grounds. Sticky garlic skins are no fun, either.
And those little stickers on every single apple and tomato When I get them off, I can't drop them off my finger into the trash, and miss, and when I take off my socks at night, there are fruit labels on the bottoms. And I still can't get them off my fingers into the trash. They're a menace.
For me, it's cold wet coffee grounds. Sticky garlic skins are no fun, either.
And those little stickers on every single apple and tomato When I get them off, I can't drop them off my finger into the trash, and miss, and when I take off my socks at night, there are fruit labels on the bottoms. And I still can't get them off my fingers into the trash. They're a menace.
My mom told me about a story in the news where this young girl had been sick for a long time and no one could find out what was wrong with her. It turns out she had ingested one of those stickers into her lungs or something. She ended up being okay, but now I'm obsessively terrified by those things, lol. I take them off and stick them onto the inside of the kitchen trash liner. And I always inspect everything all over before washing it because sometimes there are more than one.
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Touching/cleaning up after chopping cilantro. I swear you cannot get the bits off the cutting board, or your fingers!
Raw meat. I don't eat much meat (1x/week tops), but when i do, touching it creeps me out for a moment or two.
Mayo spills. Without a strong grease cutter, it's just a mess.
Wet tea bags. There's just something about the wet, sometimes drippy little sachet. (Low on my list, but still on it.)
Separating bacon from the slab. Unless you buy the extra thick cut, it just rips apart into bacon shreds, and I hate the feel of the greasy stringiness of those thin sinewy bits.
I always forget to take it out and wash it ahead of time so it can dry, because being wet just makes it that much worse.
Meat, since I'm vegetarian. I'll cook it once in a blue moon for other people but I make my husband clean up after. The only thing in the kitchen that really freaks me out are waste disposal units. Cant bear them. When I moved into my house there were two - I had them both removed and converted the sinks back into regular drains.
I hate the way salmon feels--the flesh and the skin. When I fix salmon for my DH (I hate the taste of it too), I dump it in the pan and move it around with a fork.
I don't like the feel of other fish, but salmon really bothers me.
you ever felt up a flounder???
salmon wont seem so bad
flounder has this milky slimy, almost gooey substance on its scales,,,and when you go to clean it...watch out!!! I use to catch them as a kid in a cove in front of the house
laying flat like they do ,,must reconfigure some innards, cause,,,they squirt all over you!
I like to wear gloves when I take the head off a flounder and pull its guts out ...
just trying to warm you,,,in case you should buy a flounder
A bit offf topic but I had to tell someone: a hummingbird flew into my kitchen in the middle of the night and flew directly into a loose ceiling panel - while I was trying to shoo it gently back out of the door, a neighbor rang my doorbell at the same time. When I came back to the kitchen to check on the bird, it was gone and I assumed it had flown out the open door on its own until....my husband pointed out the bird shadow on the ceiling when he turned on the light. The poor thing was still stuck up in the ceiling and had expired up there! I felt terrible - like a bird killer. I had to climb up there and get the poor thing out, after major screaming when the bird thudded onto the counter, I picked it up with a baggy over my hand and threw it away, so I DO NOT LIKE TOUCHING DEAD THINGS IN MY KITCHEN.
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