Cooking frustration

[brigid]

Our kitchen is both small and poorly laid out, to the point that while it seems like two people should be able to work in there at the same time they really can't. I say this as someone who's an experienced cook who's used to small, poorly laid out kitchens.

I started telling my husband yesterday that he needed to plan dinner for tonight that did not involve cooking because I needed to be in there... cooking. Because Thanksgiving.

He's in there right now. Cooking dinner.

He bought something for our kid to eat, but not for himself, because... ???? So he's in there right now cooking. Which means not only is he in the way of me getting things done but he's also using up work space that I can't use, and creating more dirty dishes that will need to be washed. And yes, even if he's the one washing them it still takes time to do so and it takes time for dishes to dry and part of the plan was to put all the clean dishes away and also put the dish rack away to free up that small additional amount of workspace. That's how little space we have to work with, that putting the dish rack away is necessary before getting work done.

Which means I'm going to be up at least an hour later than I'd planned on. At least.

I feel like Cassandra over here, telling people not to do X because it'll mean Y and people just blithely carry on doing X.

Comments

[word_geek]

We had a kitchen like that. When we moved out, my husband insisted on having Thursday night gamers over before Saturday move date. The gamers, at the time, showed up and cooked in our house, in rotation. As in, someone who didn't live in the house came over once a week and cooked for the group, so I could not pack the kitchen at all because I had no idea what they would need.

In the end, my friend packed the entire kitchen for us Saturday morning. I Could Not

[ofearthandstars]

I know I'm late in replying, but I can see how that would be soooo deeply frustrating and annoying. I hope you got everything done that you wanted to and found some time to rest, too.

[jenk]

SOOO frustrating.