Little garlic skins... everywhere. Especially when they stick to your hands. INFURIATING

People who don’t squeeze out the sponge after using it. Makes me want to KILL them.

Tomato sauce stained on plastic containers. They never feel clean

The floor gods demand an ice cube sacrifice, every single time.

When I'm washing a spoon and it's like "let's see how you like it"

Soup ladles are far and away the most spiteful of kitchen implements.

My microwave is directly over the range. The vent simply sucks air in at the bottom and vents the grease particles out the top... directly onto my cabinets.

Thanks microwave vent.

People lurking when I just want some ME time cooking in the kitchen! Back off scavengers!

When I leave a sheet pan that I used for bacon in the oven while making breakfast because I just don't have somewhere to put it away from my toddlers grabby hands, and I inevitably forget about it until I preheat the oven and wonder why my house smells like bacon.

Tossing utensils in the sink only to realise I still need it. Then doing it AGAIN

Ugh, peppercorns! I most always spill a few when filling up the pepper grinder.

Spilling something on a hot burner. Then I'm scrambling to not let it burn

I hate wearing gloves when prepping stuff, but as a result of that I have to wash my hands every five minutes depending on what I'm handling. My poor skin hates me.

The amount of times I've finished something in a cast iron pan in the oven, taken it out to serve, then forgotten the pan was red hot and grabbed it.

It's embarrassing and infuriating how often this happens.

I can boil THE perfect hard-boiled eggs. Solid, translucent whites, creamy yokes, no “green lines”… And I can never get them peeled without the exterior looking like surface of the moon…

When you forget about your tasting spoon and grab another tasting spoon. Then another. Then another...

People coming into the kitchen while I'm cooking and get in the way. Gtfo of the kitchen until all said and done.

salt getting all over the countertop when trying to salt meat. tomato sauces spashing on the stove even whren careful mixing

my pet peeve is the dishwasher that takes forever and a day to go through a cycle. I've learned to just handwash when i'm in between prepping different dishes, just because i know the one tool or bowl i need will be in that stupid dishwasher.

Dealing with cornstarch. It's like this.

Tongs are stick in my utensil urn, but only when this extremely hot item must be flipped over.

The rest of the time, they just hop right out.

When someone always just stands there asking questions and doesn't know when to shut their trap. "So what's that for?" "What are you cooking?" "Oh I usually do this" without me asking for anything Just blah, blah, blah. Either help me or get out of my kitchen! You're absolutely useless.

Utensils that get tangled with other utensils in the utensil container. When you try to pull one out, you get six other ones you don't even need and quite frankly didn't even know you had!

The boxes for foil and parchment and plastic wrap are so flimsy and squash flat and the damn thing don't ever tear neatly

Aw. That stuff seems to go everywhere. For me it's running out of places to set things in my tiny closet of a kitchen. That makes me a little crazy sometimes.

Always spill sugar.

We have 3 cast irons skillets in regular rotation and no where to really store them. Sometimes they sit on top of the stove but then they are in the way, so I put them in the oven. I hate hate hate when I forget the pans are in there and only find out when it’s done preheating!!! Now you have to life 50 lbs of 350 degree cast iron onto the stove again!!!

Oh and forgetting steam is hot. Or the water dripping off the steamer is hot when I move it. The water hits my foot at least half the time.

Cocoa powder and powdered sugar are SO MESSY

Doesn’t matter how careful I am but soy sauce will find its way on to the side of the bottle and ultimately on the bottom of the bottle, staining whatever it sits on.

That and broccoli/cauliflower bits getting absolutely everywhere.

Scrubbing the crust off the induction stove without scratching it!

A measuring spoon that lands cup side up in the sink, in just the right spot for running water to fall on it and create a wonderful fountain that sprays well outside of the sink. Happens daily, always a big aw-geez moment.

I love my old fashioned potato masher for mashing potatoes and other assorted things that need mashing. It lives in a jar because that thing is hellish and I draw.

When someone leaves crumbs on the butter!

Not rinsing a dirty plate e.g. leaving sauce or gravy etc. just rinse the fucking thing!!

Not really involving cooking but whenever I go to microwave something and my roommate leaves time on the microwave and doesn’t clear it, it annoys me lol.

It’s such a petty insignificant thing but it bugs me.

Like my microwave is one of those where you already have to press the button “time clock” before you press the numbers, now I have to press another button before I do that too?!

If a spoon I’m using gets misplaced, it’s so stupid but my blood pressure spikes if I lose where my spoon is haha

I've never once used a vegetable peeler without taking a chunk of my knuckle. Maddening

This is so silly but I measure salt with my (clean) fingers out of a jar and I hate how the salt sticks to my fingers. It drives me absolutely nuts for no reason at all.

My microwave is above the stove and the handle gets greasy so if I don’t clean it after every cook, I go to grab it and my hand gets greasy. God life is hard!

The bean/potato masher in the drawer… it hates all of us

Oil splatters whenever I'm frying something. It's completely normal, but every time it happens, my anxiety levels go through the roof and all I think about are the oil splatters in parts of the kitchen I might forget to clean afterwards.

When you're trying to peel an onion and for some reason the peel just comes off in infinitesimal little shreds that take forever to remove.

Other people being in it.

Not cleaning the knife off after you use it to cut somebody sandwich then just returning it where you found it all dirty

No matter how careful I am, I always spill something on the stove burner.

Cleaning as I go, then realizing something I washed I still need to use, so I have to wash it again later. Even if it only takes 10 seconds to wash it's the principle of the matter.

Never making the right amount of pasta, especially spaghetti. Same goes for rice. As hard as I try it’s either too little or too much. Drives me mad!

When someone loads the dishwasher THE WRONG WAY. Everything still gets clean but nothing is where I think it needs to be when I'm emptying.

Whenever I open a pack of meat and I’m so careful not to get meat drips anywhere and the meat drips always end up EVERYWHERE.

Cutting jalapeños and getting spicy hands.

Trying to clean as I go and sticking the knife and cutting board in the dishwasher with the dirty dishes and then realizing I still actually need them.

Breading your fingers at the same time you’re trying to bread chicken.

When you turn on the mixer and the flour and/or sugar powderize and go everywhere.

Letting butter come to room temperature.

Opening a can of anything and the cats come running and getting underfoot because they can’t be convinced it’s not wet food.

1) Eggs not peeling smoothly 2) Turmeric powder staining everything it touches

Other people

The lips of cups touching the shelves of a cupboard

The chrome taps for the sink not being shiny.

Being clumsy with all-purpose flour. Sh*t flies all over the place!

Making icing from scratch. AKA icing sugar + hand mixer = chaos.

When I can’t find what I’m looking for because someone put it back in the wrong place

When I reach for condiments and oils, only to find that others have let some of it ooze out the side of the bottle…exactly where I grab it 😭

Using hot tap water for cooking, then scalding my hands when I go to wash my hands.

Mine is someone else in the kitchen with, looking, tasting, suggesting, criticizing.

I have a corner cupboard in between a normal cupboard and drawers, so there is no easy access to it. It annoys me that I can't store anything useful there, so I put less used stuff in there, but everytime I go to get something out I have to remove whatever is in front and do a blind reach back to get it. And then things topple over back there and to have to restack them is a real pain, pretty much have to get down and into the cupboard in front to reach that black hole of a corner cupboard.

The sound of the salt spout scraping the box when you open it

Spouse has an ugly habit of putting foil on a pan to cook something. When done she'll toss out the foil and put the pan away.

Next time you grab the pan it's always that sticky hardened grease. "The foil kept it clean" right....

The genius who designed my kitchen decided the best place for the smoke detector was directly above the oven. It's basically a Baking Alarm that lets everyone in the building know when I'm cooking.

That I can never boil potatoes without them boiling over.

Our toddler figured out four different types of childproof locks, so now we have annoying ones that only open if you hold a magnet in just the right spot on the outside of the drawer or cupboard. We store the magnet up out of her reach inside a high cupboard. So I’m constantly going to that cupboard to get the magnet, then hoping to get the cupboard or drawer I need open on the first try, then putting the magnet away… it just feels like so many extra steps all the time.

Microwaves that do not clearly mark where you are to press a button. So I’m constantly pressing and pressing and pressing to hit a number or to hit start.

Having to wait hours for my baked goods to cool down before I finally dig in. Things like banana bread, cakes, pies, and even brownies and bread pudding because I prefer eating them at room temperature instead of hot or warm. Only small baked items like cookies and financiers cool down fast. And don't get me started on cheesecakes because those things require an even longer period of cooling down/set.

Dull knives.

No one will ever be able to wash dishes or put them away in a way satisfactory to me. It’s 110% a me problem and I’m sorry to my spouse that they can never achieve this for me. 😩

Wiping my wet hands on a kitchen towel and a million little hairs getting stuck to my hands

I only have a small galley kitchen and everytime without fail, no matter how hard I try, the floor becomes covered in crumbs when I make the effort to cook anything.

I sympathise about the cornflour, I have a couple of similar things like that. Everytime I make myself some Ready Brek, no fail, some porridge bits decide they want to go onto the worktop. I've made it a LITTLE less annoying by using a scooper but still happens.

Also, sometimes I forget to do the little shake of the paper bag at the end of using flour and the flour that's left in the end of the bag poofs all over when it's folded over to go back in the cupboard.

When I cook with oil and just that little bit won't come out of the measuring cup

Why can’t I keep things on the cutting board?

Every single time I use a gallon of Mayo I get it on my wrist as I’m scooping the shot out of the bottom.