How do I stop being so autistic over cleanliness? I can spend 15 minutes scrubbing a couple of pans and still feel like they're not clean.
How do I stop being so autistic over cleanliness?
How do I stop being so autistic over cleanliness? I can spend 15 minutes scrubbing a couple of pans and still feel like they're not clean.
Just take your meds.
all you need to do is rub your hand over them and if there's nothing sticking, it's clean. a little bit of brown spotting on SS is fine. just do a deep clean with Barkeeper's Friend every month or so with them
>rub your hand over them
and now you have grease on your hands and can't use them anymore
Make fermented foods. Something simple like a 2% salt brine poured over carrot sticks crammed into a jar. Leave it out for 2 weeks and you'll have lovely pickled carrots.
I think that if there is small enough amount of dirt it's harmless and tasteless. If the dirt is fresh, it can even bring good taste depending what you cooked.
Why is there dirt on your pans
Volunteer to do others' dishes. Let them bring them over for you to clean.
>captcha: 2GAYM
make sanitizer water after washing them and leave the pots in there for at least a min, you make it with bleach depending on how big your sink
Your body is 80% bacteria, every square inch of everything you touch is covered in poop particles. Those poop particles are also floating in the air you breathe along with skin cells and other terrible things. Every piece of food you eat was walked on and pooped on by at least 5 different bugs and then picked or butchered by someone with poop covered hands.
The world is a dirty place, deal with it. Your cleanliness autism is making you sicker by weakening your immune system.
I'm not scared of bacteria. I'm scared of getting like a single herpes virus cell from someone else that stuck onto a cup into my body, and then having an incurable disease that makes my brain swell and lowers my IQ for the rest of my life.
or something else similar
how much poop is on a fursuit?
yeah me too OP, it helped me a ton to get dish gloves, that way I can't feel the texture of the dish because that's what I obsess over. The only thing that truly matters for food safety is to disinfect the previous mess so if you use an antibacterial soap and mega hot water then they are clean. I give them a swift rinse by hand and a light scrub to wash food pieces off and I always stick everything in the dishwasher to sanitize. I don't buy anything that can't do in the dishwasher.
Look up cognitive behavioral therapy.
For me it's a visual thing as staining on "stainless" steel bugs me. Just use vinegar on them and they'll look new again which can be half the battle:
lol, fake. When he describes the stain at the beginning, he shows the bottom of the pan; when he describes cleaning it, he only cleans the inside.
This is the cooking board. Your question is related to mental illness, not cooking.
there's tiny bugs in your eyebrows RIGHT NOW
Small if true
It is called obsessive compulsive disorder, anon. You unironically need thrapy. It will only get worse... like when you learn about the thousands of microscopic mites that live in the skin follicles of your face and crawl out at night to fuck... right on your face.
i had to clean glassware at a foodgrade lab which shit that didnt wanna come out. sugar or weed oil. my job was to get shit 100% clean but i had to acknoweledge i cant get shit 100% clean
The solution to most OCD habits like that is to just ignore it until it stops bothering you, and it will stop eventually.
This retard probably scrubs his cast iron pans until they’re shiny and buy new ones when they don’t work anymore, you belong as far away from a kitchen as possible
Take up smoking. Consuming tar and arsenic every day completely cured my germophobia, I've never felt less healthy.
i leave residue on them since they're going in a pressure cooker anyway and there will be less nickel and chromium getting in my food with a layer of crud left over it
After dealing with cast iron for years my stainless stuff is a delight to clean. Bar keepers friend for tough stuff and just periodically to get a nice shine.
Don't
Keep your shit clean
tfw very autistic about getting the food off then autistic again that the new food will taste like soap
Are you retarded?
Why are you concerned with cleanliness at all?
The only legitimate concern with cookware cleanliness is the presence of anything that will impart off-flavors
Heating a pan up to searing temperature nearly instantly sterilizes it. You could literally wipe shit on a skillet, sear a steak on it 2.5 min each side with 3min in the oven, and eat it with zero chance of getting sick. It’ll taste like carbonized shit, but you won’t get sick.
I'm not sure if that's true. Cooking will kill bacteria, but they leave behind toxins that can still make you sick which aren't destroyed by heat. You can still get food poisoning from fully cooked food.
You have more bacteria cells in your body than human cells. It coats every surface on earth.
You know how they show drug addicts or schizos feeling bugs crawling all over them? Those bugs are actually there, most just don't feel them.
You have OCD. I cannot leave my house until I've swept the floors at least fifteen times.
why is cleaning OCD so common? I have it as well but I never understood the cleanliness thing.
>I have it as well but I never understood the cleanliness thing.
"cleaning OCD" is literally the main feature of OCD you retard
i have a pretty mild case of it. i notice "it" gets worse with anxiety
relax, rationalize it, realize what a waste of time and energy it is. the more you give in, the worse it gets. when you resist it, it feels great
what's it call if I have ocd on other people cleaniness but not mine? i take a long time doing dishes and clean my sister place when it's messy it makes me feel gross if other places are messy but my room is fucked up
Two dishwashers. One is always a storage cabinet. Never have to put away the dishes.
genius
don't have the space for that though
you are killing all bacteria just by preheating your pan
a dishwasher did it for me. I used to be kind like this but got a dishwasher and don't think twice about cleanliness now. even if somehow something was left over the high heat sterilizes everything.
Well anon, I do the same with my hands.
The problem is: the pan won’t hurt and cut itself bleeding if you wash it autistically, but my hands do.
wear gloves like other normal hand cleaning ocd people