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Prep work like peeling ginger, dicing garlic, peeling and chopping butternut squash. Prepping hot chilies. Even a small cut on your hand can sting and never mind getting too close to your eyes! Icky stuff like mixing meatloaf
After a holiday or company meal, looking at a sink full of pots and pans.
i can prep wild game in the kitchen and enjoy it but when it comes to making a salad.... that's about my least favorite ...maybe why ive avoided it for decades....
but...... the real kicker is.....if i make a big dinner with lots of guests .....and no one volunteers or helps with clean up.... makes me want to throw the dessert at them
so, i clear the air before the meal... now i encourage the younger kids to help....... it's good for them.
Are you talking about making dinner for family or guests?
If the former, they should help you clean up. If the latter, guests are not expected to help you clean up.
They are supposed to reciprocate by inviting you to a meal at their place or by taking you somewhere - and as their guest, you are not expected to clean.
Peeling, coring, and chopping apples. I have a recipe for a wonderful apple coffee cake that includes three or four apples, but I really need to be in the mood for it because I hate prepping the apples. I actually craved this cake over the weekend, but didn't bake it because I despise the prep work.
With the exception of the small mom and pop gourmet market...and all those cheeses....YUM!
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Right now I hate it all! I have been on kitchen duty for over fifty years since I was around nine years old for both cooking and cleaning. I am tired of it. I used to find joy in cooking, but not anymore.
After I win a lottery jackpot I will rarely be on kitchen duty. (Also, I will never clean another bathroom either.) I'm not lazy, I just don't feel like doing certain things anymore. I often think life is easier if you pretend you don't know how to cook; or never learn to cook in the first place.
My mom always said growing up, "Don't learn how to do things you don't want to do later in life!" So at 50, I still can't iron!
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Dishes. I don't have a dishwasher. I will actually decide not to make something if it will dirty too many dishes.
LMFAO!
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We're supposed to clean it?
LMFAO
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1) Clean up - especially anything baked on that requires soaking
2) Washing and drying lettuce leaves
3) Measuring a lot of ingredients - so tedious
4) Touching meat with my bare hands
5) Constant management of meat/veggie/fruit rotation to use at peak freshness - keeping track of expiration dates on packaged foods
6) Grocery lists
7) Cleaning a refrigerator interior - such an awkward job pulling everything out to clean
I just realized I need a full-time grocery shopper, chef, and clean up person. I'm not feeling this at all!
Cleaning a food processor is the worst. Often just don’t use it even if the final product would be better had I done so.
LOL, I know! I really do use mine a lot (just can't dice as fine as it can chop) but I have that "dread" factor the whole time because I know what a pain it is to clean.
My mother cut herself cleaning hers one year on Christmas morning of all times and had to go to the emergency room for stitches!
Chopping things. I'm a lefty and uncoordinated. Half the time I end up cutting myself. I spend a little extra on pre-cut veggies or I delegate the chopping to my husband.
Especially chopping onions. Ugh.
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I'm not feeling this at all!
I used to find joy in cooking, but not anymore. 
