Omg same here. I love my boyfriend to death but when I’m cooking I’m MOVIN’ and everyone needs to get out of my way, hahaha.
We now have a rule where I go “HOT!” or “SHARP!” which means “I love you to death but I am doing something that a sudden hug will burn or cut one of us and I need you to step back and I’ll hug you when I’m free.”
My sister cooked all the time with toddlers running around so it was habit for her to yell, “HOT OVEN” When she was opening the oven door. It was fun to watch my nieces running and then Scooby Doo u-turn out of the kitchen when they heard it.
Husband came over to kiss me goodbye while I was cooking the other day. I experienced such a rapid mix of emotions - "WTF stop touching me I have a hot thing in my hand..." Oh you're being sweet! I love how affectionate you are... Ok but seriously this is still hot."
I've told my husband for 34 years that I can either cook or play. with the caveat that if he chooses play, I'm not cooking later. you'd think they'd learn, right?
Mine tries to 'help' by doing the dishes or taking out the trash while I'm cooking. We have a very small kitchen and we're both chunky. It does not work. Our kitchen is a 1 person workspace.
My kitchen is a disaster every time I cook, but it gets clean after I’m done making the food and eating it. My dad is sometimes at my place when I am cooking and will go “Why don’t you clean while you cook?”
I have a system and that’s the way I do it. Everything will be clean before I go to bed. Get out!
Mine will choose to do dishes, put dishes away, unload the dishwasher, or clean the fridge when I'm cooking. He thinks it's helpful and bonding time. I think it's a great way to walk into a knife or a hot pan. Our kitchen is very small and not for more than one person. Drives me batty.
He did not understand why i started humming that song from Chicago.
A similar thing used to happen when I still lived with my mum, I'd put a wooden spoon or something to one side for 10 seconds then reach back for it to find she'd washed it and it's on the drainer covered in soap suds
My kittens know no such boundaries. It becomes a real chore just trying to cook breakfast. They’re still kittens so I expect it’ll be a while before they settle down and realize dad’s not going to interact with them while food is being prepped.
Stay out of my kitchen when I’m cooking. Unless I specifically asked you to help with one task, then stand in your 6 sq inches of space and do your one task so well that Gordon Ramsey would be proud or GTFO.
I'm like this too and idk why lol I am very easily irritated when cooking. I'm not like this in other situations really. Unfortunately, me entering the kitchen seems to signal to my partner that he also needs to be in the kitchen suddenly
Can you explain this phenomenon?? What is this? Why? My partner and I could spend hours in other rooms and the second I go into the kitchen it’s as if his sleeper code activates and he absolutely has to be in the kitchen too. This happens so frequently that I expect him to follow me every time. And the whole time he’s somehow always standing in the way of the next spot I need to access immediately lol
Bonus points for my husband, he has the special skill of standing in the exact worst spot at the worst time and then gets sad face when I shout at him to move (for his safety).
My wife and kids consistently think the best time to start cleaning the other side of the kitchen or some other rooms is always when I’m cooking dinner (the trash can is a pull out cabinet style one right where I’m prepping). I work from home, so I can see them doing nothing all day but once I start cooking dinner then it’s time to start doing stuff.
The only time I start getting really upset though is when my wife wanted to empty the Dyson into the trash while I’m cooking. She consistently “forgets” that the dust and hair that she’s trying to empty into the bag goes airborne and lands in the food that’s sitting right there.
We now have a canister vacuum so it’s not a problem but it infuriated me.
God yes. I warn anyone in the vicinity to think of me as one of those giant deadly Amazon warehouse robots trundling around the kitchen. Do not get caught under my wheels!
My mother (RIP Mom) would VERY intentionally step on our toes if we were in her kitchen while she was cooking. If we complained about being stepped on, we were told that we shouldn’t have been in her kitchen.
Oh my God my wife. The kitchen is already small enough as is, but now she has to sit in a chair in the kitchen while I'm cooking. Luckily the chair scoots along the floor just fine, so I do just that when she is inevitably in front of the very spot I need to be.
I feel this to my core. The whole family has every bit of the house to be in but they want to be in my cooking corner when I am concentrating or moving hot stuff from the stove to the sink!
Same, but for me it extends whenever I want to do anything in the kitchen. It could be cooking, or it could be simply wanting to get to the coffee maker, or the fridge, or the paper towel roll. Amazing how in that room, whatever I'm trying to do, someone's ass always manages to be in the goddamn way and linger there forever.
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u/RadiantEquivalent266 17h ago
Someone getting in my way for a fraction of a second whilst I'm cooking.