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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] gluten_free2024-02-03 01:30 pm

Cutlery life hack

This only works for someone like me who lives by themself, or just with uncritical housemates like cats or dogs.

Several years ago, to reduce doing too many dishes, I started keeping the bare minimum of cutlery in an old chipped mug by my main sitting chair (I don't eat at a table ever, unless at a restaurant or out for dinner at a friend's. The mug also contains other non-eating essentials of course, like scissors, pens, Apple iPad stylus).

Anyway, these are they:
Four cutlery items on a faux tigerskin footstool. As described in text. The kitchen knife has a bright pink plastic handle, and the teaspoon has a china handle with pink and green roses.


From left to right:
- all-purpose titanium spork for main meals
- Favourite teaspoon for desserts, oatmeal
- Serrated kitchen knife, mostly for cutting up apples
- Long-handled spoon (recently acquired from a thrift shop as a brand of jam I like comes in tall, thin jars)


Together, these cover every eventuality. They rarely get washed in the normal way. I lick them clean then polish them with a tissue. It works fine. This is all part of my "one advantage to being older than dirt is you can be as eccentric as fuck" policy.