Just discovered a much easier way to grind my coffee in the morning and felt dumb because it was so obvious, figure there’s some good stories out there about this type of thing out there
The dishwasher should be run when it’s convenient, not when it’s full.
I run the dishwasher so it’s finished at least an hour before I start dinner. So when I start cooking, 1. all the dishes are clean, and 2. the dishwasher is empty. This will save you so much effort if you can just learn to run the thing half full once in a while.
This plus hand washing cooking stuff while cooking (when possible) make cleaning up after meals a lot less dreadful. Just having mixing bowels and other prep stuff out of the way makes it easier to wash wooden spoons and large items like mixing bowls that doesn’t go in the dishwasher reasonable after eating.
mixing bowels
Remind me never to eat at your house.
Never eat at my house 😉
I used to feel that the dishwasher should be full for efficiency, environmental reasons, water bill, and such. Then, I added a water flow meter to my Home Assistant setup.
A full dishwasher cycle uses 4 gallons of water.
Four. Gallons.
Yeah, run that thing when you need it.
There IS electricity, but… it’s also not much. I think I calculated a total cost of about a quarter for mine last year or so… so yeah, I don’t run it because of the ADHD, not because of the cost :)
I should calculate it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if my water flow sensor uses more electricity in a year than the dishwasher. It’s very low-current, but it’s on 24/7.
For comparison: that’s flushing the toilet about three times or showering for about two minutes.
Some of us live in places with drought issues.
For comparison, my daily shower, with a low-flow shower head, uses 12 to 13 gallons. Hand-washing a large item, like a cooking pot, can take several gallons.
Yep, these days washing dishes by hand almost always takes more water than using a dishwasher
I always hear that but I’m not convinced. If I don’t rinse my dishes till their pretty damn clean then they come out of the dishwasher dirty. Been like this on every dishwasher I have used, at my house, at my parents house, at my SO’s house when they got a brand new one, at my friends house I can go on I have a decent sample size. If you count all the rinsing and a wash cycle I highly doubt it’s less. Plus when I wash dishes by hand I usually have several to do, and use a warm container of soapy water for my sponge. Besides the quart or 2 tops in my dish bin, it uses the same amount of water to rinse the suds off if not less than is necessary to rinse dishes before they go in the machine due to the sponge scrubbing. Maybe all 5+ dishwashers ive used are just shit 🤷
Do you live somewhere with very hard water? That fucks up powder dishwashing detergent IME, but the enzyme-based works fine for me in hard water probably 98% of the time. It has trouble with caked on peanut butter, but I blame that on the angle it was put in usually. If you used enzyme based and don’t have hard water then 🤷♂️
My water quality fluctuates but usually around 55ppm, so not terribly hard. I do use some I believe enzyme based tablets for dishwasher and their ok but if it’s caked on from yesterday or anything more than a few thousandths thick it seems to struggle. No matter what peanut butter and the dishwasher don’t mix gotta wipe that butter knife off 🤣
It does work out in my household to run it in the evening or early morning, which aligns with my energy concern’s ToU pricing. It also works out that it’s usually the coolest at night, so venting the steam into the house either isn’t as bad during the summer or helps out in Winter.
I run mine before going to bed, so I’m not waiting on the heated drying to finish and I have fresh plates and untensils in the morning.
Dishwasher at night or very early morning. The power costs are lower.
on your billing plan, maybe
Saying no instead of trying to fix everyone’s problems. I’m bit handy at fixing a lot of things and I’m happy to teach people how to fix stuff but sadly most of them don’t want to learn and just see me as a tool.
“I have no idea. I don’t use Windows anymore.”
An alternative that I do with my parents: “I told you not to buy this locked Samsung phone filled with adware (or antivirus subscription), throw it in the trash and buy a real phone that is cheaper, I’m not helping you anymore because you don’t listen to me.”
(Yes, it’s a rant but it works)
Oh great !
I wAn’t you tO INsTALl OmarcHY fOr Me, I hEArd IT’s THE GeaTeSt of LInuxES.
God, Omarchy is so fucking useless. Dude at work was going on about it so I staged it up on a random machine. It isn’t an operating system: it is an AI GUI.
It lasted a good hour before I blew it out. Fucking unusable with no benefit.
Its less a distro and more some scipts that customize the Arch GUI and dump a bunch of AI shit on it.
The main issue is that it was created by DHH, the racist/transphobe/facist that has written extensively about how “brown” England is and talked about killing “vermin” like Roma.
Supporting it is causing issues for buisnesses, but shitheads keep doing it.
Well played. You captured the moment with perfection.
Can you please fix me so that I can say “no”?
No 🙂
I suffered from back pain. Until one doc recommended one of those 20$ abs rollers. Like 20 reps take 3 minutes? Boom. No more back pain. Actually had to quit a more physical job because of this.
Exercising regularly and eating healthy and then experiencing the benefits of easier sleep and feeling happier is so frustrating.
The worst feeling came with the realisation that all those annoying gym junkie “you are what you eat”, “eat less, move more” douchebags are correct about everything. Now I’m responsible for my actions, goddammit.
The other week I didn’t get the fries with my normal chicken burger from the fast food place and didn’t get that awful heavy feeling in my stomach afterwards. Made me so angry.
The other week I didn’t get the fries with my normal chicken burger from the fast food place and didn’t get that awful heavy feeling in my stomach afterwards. Made me so angry.
the reason i do endurance sports is so that i CAN eat like trash
I dont eat to move… i move to eat
The realization that how we feel is directly affected by the things we do and food we eat is super frustrating.
Mainly, because I want to eat like shit and do nothing and still feel good and it just doesn’t work.
On the flip side, as someone that’s dealt with long-term chronic depression, it’s nice to know that there are literal activities that can directly counter my shitty mood. Taking a walk, petting a dog, talking with a friend/loved one, sitting in sunshine, exercise, listen to music… etc. etc.
It’s kind of like half the pharmaceutical industry has sprung up because people would rather take a pill and feel a bit better, than engage in any sort of healthy eating/exercise to feel actually better.
Very true. For that matter, the “wellness” industry in general and a lot of popular wisdom about what ails us is mostly trivial, too.
The amount of weight given to the topic of whether artificial sweeteners are better or worse for your overall health than sugar compared to the time spent on talking about the dismally low percentage of the population who actually eat enough fruit and veg is the complete wrong way around!
Diet Coke is the least of your worries if you’re not getting any fibre, people! And if you are getting enough fibre, protein, and healthy fats, the right level of calories and all your recommended vegetables, then by all means drink all the Diet Coke you want! Which won’t be much because healthy diets leave you much more satiated and naturally energetic anyway.
The reason of course is that avoiding artificial sweeteners or some purported “toxin” is a quick and easy way to feel healthier and feel like you’re doing something without actually having to think about true overall health… Allegorically, everyone’s trying to build a pyramid from the top down.
Are you talking about the big foam cylinder that you lie on top of and roll back and forth? Or something else
I think they mean the wheel with the handles where you kneel and roll it forward and back to work your abs.
yes this one. The foam cylinder i have too but i dont think it helps. Especially not in the lower back.
A lot of good advice in the comments below, but one thing that has kept me mobile after breaking my back is stretching. Specifically, stretching your hamstrings, especially, if like me, you sit a lot. As we sit more, the hamstrings shorten and pull in the hips, which can cause back pain, it’s a cascading effect.
Every day, I spend at least 5-10 minutes stretching just my legs and focus on my hamstrings. It’s kept a lot of pain away or at least within tolerable levels.
Funny enough, I was never able to touch my toes until after I had 2 titanium rods installed in my back.
Do some lateral walks too. Trick is to push off the back leg.
If you have a detachable faucet, you can stretch it over to fill your coffee machine directly.
…oh my god…
Years eh?
Assuming your coffee machine is directly next to your sink, and that you don’t filter your water first
You just need better aim, skill issue.
But why would you get a detachable faucet without also having an integrated water filter? 😝
Yes sir! I do this every day!
No! My coffee pot is too far away!
The cheap version without a fancy faucet is if your coffee machine is close enough to do that while turning on the faucet, the wire from the coffee machine can probably also reach over the sink, so you can hold the coffee machine under the regular faucet.
Instructions unclear. Operated coffee machine in bathtub. Died.
You can pull out the dishwasher cutlery basket and take it to the cutley drawer, instead of taking them one by one.
Haha I just made this comment, it took me too many years to think of this
I pull out the cutlery basket, unload it directly from the counter by the silverware drawer. Then I go back and pull out the entire top rack and do the same, then the bottom.
I only have to walk back to the dishwasher 3 times.
I stashed the cutlery caddy because our dishwasher has a third rack for utensils, and you just scoop up a big handful of cutlery to put away which turns out to be way less fussy.
Have your cutlery drawer next to the dishwasher and you don’t even need to
When trying to get the last bit of pasta sauce from a jar, don’t bother with a rubber spatula/pot licker.
Generally you need to add a bit of water to the pot at some point anyway, because some of that moisture is boiling off. So instead, after you pour most of the sauce into the pot, add that water up front by putting a little bit to the jar, closing the lid and shaking, and now add that to the pot.
I use a little bit of red wine for my pasta sauce. Works great.
Oh hell yeah! That’s classes it up a bunch!
For a long time, I thought, I had a pretty good technique for cutting bell peppers by cutting near the indents, so I could easily remove the white strips.
Then decided one day to look up how chefs do it. And yeah, my technique was garbage in comparison. 😅The technique that I now use, is to cut off the stem, so you can place it upside down onto the cutting board. And then slice downwards between two indents, so that you take out a whole wall.
Ideally, you just need three slices to take out the three walls and then you’re left with the stem, the seeds and the white strips, all still connected for ease of disposal.But even if you’ve got an ugly bell pepper or not the skills to do it in three cuts, it’s fine. After taking out that first wall, you can continue going around in a circle, just make sure to cut between the white strip and the wall, so that gets removed right away.
It’s just easily twice as fast as what I was doing before, and I’m much less likely to get seeds everywhere as well.
Tbh basically every vegetable has an ideal way to cut it up like this. Properly learning to dice onions changed my life
EDIT: Shout outs to Kenji Lopez Alt’s youtube channel for having a bunch of videos on proper, chef-like methods of cutting up various vegetables, that’s where I learned a bunch of them
I just looked this up and Gordon Ramsey’s video popped up. That looks crazy easy 😯 Thanks for the tip 😆
And he looks like he is powered up chemically!
Well what’s the easier way to grind coffee?
Not really applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn’t have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans…
I don’t think I’ve ever used the actual cap, I just keep it assembled. Also contains the coffee dust, for those of us not fancy enough for a four part grinder that has a bottom cap for the grindy bit
I know! Instant coffee!
Starbucks! The coffee practically grinds itself!
Shaving in the shower
It is difficult to shave a face without a mirror, but I know many women do this, as legs don’t require a mirror.
I have a metal disk from a hard drive that I keep on a suction cup in my shower to use as a mirror. Works wonderfully.
just wanted to add that shaving in the shower at the end or doing it in the bath right after is great as the steam and such really gets your skin in the right condition to shave. I even do it without shaving cream or soap in the shower because you can just keep your skin real wet.
Well, I can see that in a bath, but I can’t fit in the bathtub. Not due to girth, but height. Loved baths as a kid. Just not an option now.
yeah i don’t know why I said bath there. I think I meant shower or bath or right after either and my brain got all running over itself when expressing it. The important part is all the steam and water just get the skin really ready. really the shower is the best because you can constantly rewet.
All good, I just figured your bathtubs were larger.
Hell, my kitchen sink could double as a urinal, if I were so gross.
I am considered tall. This isn’t a blessing. I would love to be about 5’10".
Yeah my height is actually one of the things im mostly happy about as far as general traits go. im just shy of 6 so I have like hit my head only a few times in my life and it was for pretty low stuff. Then like height is pretty important for a guy so its nice to be able to respond 6ft although my brother gets anoyed at that but im not gonna say 5 11 and change. I had a roomate and neighbor in the dorms in college and they were six three and man. You would think 3 inches would not make much of a difference but you could see how annoying it was. Heck my wife is tall for a woman and we are in a place where we would like to get the toilet and counters higher. I can’t imagine how bad this place would be for someone whose really tall.
I do have a mirror in the shower for that purpose. Whenever I use conditioner in my hair I rub some on my face as well and that works great to shave with
Agreed! When I condition my hair, I also condition my face. And I also have beard conditioner.
I figure a mirror in the shower would fog like crazy. I leave my bathroom door open when I am showering and expect to shave so the mirrors don’t fog up.
I have a plastic cup I keep in the shower to rinse my razor off in, I also use it to pour water on the mirror before I shave, once the mirror is heated up by the water it stops fogging.
a bit of conditioner spread on the mirror should prevent condensation
It’s kinda not really that hard. You can just feel where you still need to shave. I guess I’m biased, though, because I’m a redhead, so unless I’ve let it go a REALLY long time, my hairs are basically invisible anyway. (It doesn’t help that my eyes are terrible.) Even with a mirror, I need to feel to tell if they’re actually short enough. So the steam on my skin makes a bigger difference for my shave than having a mirror.
Oh man, my hair is a deep brown, almost black. It is so obvious if I miss a spot. And it is thick, like cutting a forest down.
I need a mirror and still have to do rub tests. Goddamn trees on my face.
I even went into a laser hair removal place and asked for a quote, and the lady was stunned. She didn’t know how to say it. Yeah, I can’t get away with not shaving and growing a beard sucks.
So I use beard conditioner and hair conditioner to soften it, then use shaving cream and grind on it until I can no longer hear the abrasions of the hair cutting down in my cranium.
And finally, I am ready for the meeting with the client. So I envy you.
Hell, man, I have to shave four hours ahead of time, because my skin is red from the operation. And I have an expensive razor set.
You are lucky.
Oof. Yeah, that sucks. If it’s any consolation, I can’t grow a decent looking beard to save my life. The front of my chin basically grows nothing, but my neck grows in thick, bushy curls. I look like a caricature of a basement-dweller. So I also need to stay fairly clean-shaven. But yeah, I guess that’s easier for me than I realized.
Brushing teeth in the shower too.
You can cook in the shower too!
wait. so you want our things and your not going to tell us the better way to grind coffee.
I too will give no secrets without recompense.
Not really applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn’t have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans…
Me method has been to buy the cheap maxwell house breakfast blend pre ground 😬 I guess I have poor taste and low standards … Hard to disappoint!
I mean I don’t even like cofee. my wife has practically cut it out so we just have her emergency cafeine hit supply on hand.
In most of the places I’ve lived, I’ve had hot water fixtures that gradually started dripping again no matter how tightly I turned them off—I figured the problem was that the valves were weakened from being overtightened, and I was faced with the tradeoff of continuing to overtighten them and gradually make the problem worse, or undertighten them and deal with the drip.
But recently I realized the real issue was that the valves were shrinking after they cooled off, causing the seal to loosen. So I changed my routine: after using the hot water, I’ll shut the water off lightly, then wait 30 minutes for the valve to cool and tighten it again.
“wait 30 minutes”
ಠ_ಠ
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
In practice, I just re-tighten the faucets before I leave the apartment.
I just turn it to cold for like 3 seconds before shutting it off. There’s still a little dripping, but far less than when I shut it directly after running hot water.
I guess that works if you’ve got a single valve, but in my case the hot and cold are physically separated.
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In a lot of dishwashers, the silverware goes in its own little detachable caddy. Instead of reaching over to the dishwasher to load and unload every fork and knife, just pick up the caddy and collect all the silverware, or take it directly to where its stored and unload it there.
Edit: someone beat me to it, haha
Also, if you sort your silverware before starting the dishwasher, unloading will be faster
I did this until I found out that spoons were spooning this way and some of them weren’t clean afterwards. So now it’s planned chaos again.
I find the sorting works well enough that I don’t even bother with taking the basket out. Though my dishwasher and utensil drawer are just a pivot step away from each other, so ymmv.
I moved that caddy to the top shelf of my dishwasher so I don’t have to keep bending over to fill/empty it. Fuck the po-lice!
I’ll bite the bullet on this one.
Maybe it’s not embarrassingly late because it was decades ago and I was a dumb teenager, but wiping your ass while sitting. Every time I took a shit, I’d stand up and then wipe.
Much easier now sitting down since the toilet seat basically keeps your cheeks spread for you.
Now just wish I had the right hookups to install a bidet toilet. That would be a real game changer.
Half of people wipe from the front while sitting. The other half stand up and wipe from behind. Most people in either group never find out that the other half exists.
I wanted to share a relevant QI clip for this (it was brought up by a guest, not the host) but couldn’t find it.
I wipe from the back while sitting. Am I a monster?
If you have balls, just make sure you keep them clean.
If you have a vagina, that is how you get a UTI and the practice should best be avoided entirely.
If I had a vag, I would be wiping from the front toward the back. But I have balls, so not a concern anyway. Take paper -> reach behind me (rocking forward a little as necessary) -> wipe from balls towards spine. Presto, ass is wiped without standing up or dirtying the proverbial vagina.
That would work for women too. Important is the direction towards the spine, not towards the genitalia.
If you have water going to your toilet you should be able to install a bidet seat. Easy peasy.
with ice cold water?
I don’t normally put ice in it. Just regular tap water. It’s refreshing.
I’m not sure how refreshed I want my asshole to be…
You think that now. I used to make butt spray and put it in little spray foam dispensers in the bathroom. You could spray it on toilet paper to make a flushable wipe. It normally has a little lavender castille soap in it but once i accidentally bought the ginger soap and my husband complained that it was too spicy.
Oh Christ WASH YOUR DAMN ASS you baboon. Get over it.
First off, there’s thing called humor. Perhaps you haven’t heard of it, perhaps you don’t see it here. There’s also this thing called context. Earlier comments were talking about cold water. “Cold” varies from region to region. In my area it comes out at about 4° C. I have no problem washing my ass and am not a baboon. Nor am I inclined toward name-calling. I just prefer to use something closer to skin temperature than it is to ice.
Surprisingly yeah it’s comfortable even in the dead of winter. I think it just doesn’t cover a large enough area to make you feel cold
My working theory is that the body just doesn’t sense temperature in the butthole very well, because why would it?
Why would it sense spicy? To remind you of the choices you made earlier?
It senses spicy, because spicy isn’t actually a form of taste, but rather just your pain sensors being triggered by a chemical, like for example capsaicin (chilis) or piperine (black pepper).
Wikipedia says for capsaicin:
By binding to TRPV1 receptors, capsaicin produces similar sensations to those of excessive heat or abrasive damage, such as warming, tingling, itching, or stinging, explaining why capsaicin is described as an irritant on the skin and eyes or by ingestion.
So, I guess, the butthole would in a sense be good at feeling temperature, but only for excessive/painful heat.
But also, people generally report that this problem largely goes away when they start using a bidet.
So far, the explanation that makes the most sense to me, is that you get micro-scratches from the toilet paper, and then the capsaicin etc. will really be able to irritate the broken skin.
Toughen up, sunshine!
No but seriously it’s fine for most people except deep in winter, and you can get a heated add-on bidet if there’s power nearby.
You should be able to just slap a t-valve on the existing water line. The bidet I’ve got came with all that.
I considered that, but the water that comes out of our well is ice cold. Not the most pleasant of sensations to grace your sensitive bits.
I’d ideally like to get one of the electronic ones that can regulate temperature and has a few different modes. But I don’t currently have an electrical outlet anywhere close to the toilets, and rewiring the bathroom isn’t high on the budget priority at the moment.
Honestly the cold water is not an issue. I was concerned about it when we installed ours but even the first time I used it I was like, “Oh that’s fine what was I worried about.”
I’m obviously not the butthole police but in my opinion/experience cold water should not be a deal breaker.
I got one of the electric ones for my main bathroom, and I also did not have a plug anywhere nearby, but there was a light switch nearby, and I found a replacement switch that turns a light switch into a light switch and plug outlet that also had GFCI included in it.
Heated bidets do not draw a whole lot of power, so I didn’t have to worry about overloading the circuit or anything.
I was concerned about that too, but I finally went ahead and got one, and it’s really not bad. With how briefly the water is in contact, it just hasn’t been an issue. We have fridge temp cold water from our tap as well.
We got a Rinseworks 360 hand bidet, and after trying it for a while I got another one. Definitely reccomend it.
I “upgraded” to a heated bidet and now never use the heated water. It’s way too hot 😂
You can get travel bidets for like 20 bucks or so, which are pretty much just a squeeze bottle with a nozzle. I wash mine and fill it back up when I go to wash my hands, so it’s always ready.
I’ve never used a ‘proper’ bidet, but don’t feel like I’m missing out in terms of cleanliness. Still feels pretty much like freshly showered, and certainly magnitudes cleaner than when using just toilet paper.
I got one that is just a little nozzle that fits into a used soda bottle or water bottle.
You don’t need special hookups for an unheated bidet. $25 online and 30 minutes of screwing and unscrewing stuff. Very simple
Our kids defaulted to this when they were first learning, because they were excited to see and then remembered they needed to wipe too. Teaching them to wipe before standing took some extra time, I wonder if that got skipped for you? Or your parents, who passed that on?
2 things.
- Brushing my teeth in the shower
- Sitting on the toilet backwards so I can use the tank as a table.
Yeah, this may work for people under a certain height. I think my knees are gonna hit the wall (or the tank).
You must have a very small shower (or a very large toothbrush)
You got it, the second one.
