>people I live with buy these >just inexplicably smash them down on top of plates of food for no reason, not bowls, not glasses, plates, just a piece of plastic smashed into their plate of macaroni as it heats up
What's the most idiotic kitchen behavior you've seen?
David Jenkins
I saw a brit try to cook once.
Caleb Martinez
Sorry what's the problem here? Are you trying to say they mix it into their food?
Ethan Wood
>friend tells me he makes great scrambled eggs >flaking away non stick pan nice and hot >spray pam in the pan >crack eggs in the pan >shuffle them around with a spatula until overcooked >wala
William Flores
I saw a guy undercook his steak, it was practically raw. And the outside was burnt to a crisp. I'm actually impressed he managed to get the outside black and the inside bright pink, bleeding all over his plate. >He cooked it in a frying pan too >WE HAD A FUCKING GRILL!!!!!!!!
Jack Cruz
The point of such devices are to lock in the moisture of food you might heat up in the microwave. Not just to serve as a cute hat for your food as it spins around in the hot machine
Noah Mitchell
OBSESSED B E S E
Zachary Garcia
plastic is not allowed in my microwave
Camden Taylor
I'm way more worried about that salad in the microwave.
Alexander Turner
>Sorry what's the problem here? Are you trying to say they mix it into their food? Yea OP, what is the problem? Why is it idiotic someone doesn't like to have spattering food in their microwave? Also, it would hold in the steam during carryover cooking.
Ian Diaz
Seems dumb to use them with a plate instead of a bowl. With a bowl, mug, or similar the cover actually encloses the food completely. With a plate you have a gap around the perimeter where food can still splatter.
I also don't see the point in buying throwaway crap for this purpose when you could just put a 2nd plate upside down over the top of your bowl.
....or not being a retard with microwave settings and avoid splatter being generated in the first place.
Thomas Adams
>Live with roommates in 2013 >Seemed alright before moving in, slowly find out they're retarded >Among many things, they cook Totino's party pizzas on top of the box in the microwave >They let it cook for an excessive amount of time every time >Apartment smells like burning ink almost every night >They never wash dishes, so I just stop using the kitchen until I move out >They get pissed at me for never washing dishes, even though I just use one spoon, one fork, one butter knife, and used paper towels as plates >Just ate fast food, peanut butter sandwiches, and various canned foods in my room
That apartment was hell, fuck those guys. We also got cockroaches because of their filthy habits. Hope they get cancer from their burnt box ink pizzas.
Mason Robinson
>We also got cockroaches because of their filthy habits
Says the guy who fucking eats in his bedroom...
Tyler Martin
The roaches were always in the kitchen. Never saw a single one in my room. I washed my utensils and rinsed cans in the bathroom sink right after eating.
Aaron Parker
>rinsed cans in the bathroom sink
Jesus fuck it gets even worse.
Jace Martin
>eating in a bedroom >washing the dishes in the bathroom you're disgusting
John Flores
>>WE HAD A FUCKING GRILL!!!!!!!!
New to the concept of food? Grill is the last-place way to cook steaks.
Evan Walker
I guess you're being humorous, but I thought those plastic things are simply washable splatter guards. You can tell a lot about people by the state of the inner surfaces of their microwaves.
Carter Hernandez
Did you wash your hair in the toilet?
Sebastian White
If you keep your toilet bowl clean you can drink out of it. Dogs drink out of mine all the time.
Camden Bennett
>I thought those plastic things are simply washable splatter guards.
Right. But: 1) They don't work well on a flat plate. Use them with a bowl instead. and 2) Why buy something for this purpose when you can just use a spare plate?
Isaiah Wright
>can't find any steak knives >they're in the sink covered in food because they were used like butter knives
How hard is it to go to the butter knife drawer fuck
Xavier Evans
Uh, what? Steak knives are used to cut all meat, not just steak.
Aaron Edwards
I have to say, yes, dumb and third world people, either/or, people with no home training, or with extreme cheapness and poverty, will do stupid things. At some point, it has to bother you when you can't have people over to your place because of rotting garbage smell, in the sink and in the kitchen. I get your standoff, because it comes from a place of parent-child dysfunction, sibling rivalry and other things you should have grown past (and mind you, them too). But, at the same thing you were never part of any solution.
Solutions: 1) Buy $2 worth of paper plates at Walmart. 500 paper plates solves a year of microwave issues, from bacon, from splatters, from no clean plate to use, let's use a pizz-box uncovered ideology. 2) Never having a showdown about it all. Passive aggressive. You fucking clean that shit up, or I'm getting you evicted, reported and shamed. I have no problem advertising for a new roommate, breaking a lease, reporting you to the property owner, the school, etc etc. You will clean your shit up. You WILL do it at least twice a week. You will NOT cook food in this kitchen if you haven't cleaned your last mess up. 3) I would mess up their shit by calling their families. Yes. I would call and describe the disgusting nature of their pig lifestyle, and let their parents guilt them out. And, let them know if it keeps up, if you have to call their families or spread gossip about their slovenliness, reporting them to the health department, that they would be paying YOUR fees for breaking the lease, or else paying for weekly bug extermination and maid service. They can start coughing up $400/mo for the privilege of someone else cleaning up after them, or Mom can come and do their dishes, laundry, clean microwaves, etc on Saturdays. BE INFURIATED and get your point across. The only authority for manchildren or princesses, is the person who has authority over their money. No one else.
Xavier James
Wew lad.
Sebastian Morales
>live with best friend for 18 months >great guy but he's food retarded >come home from work and there's a bunch of half raw, half totally burned sweet potatoes >ask him what happened to them >he says he tried to grill them >tell him we don't have a grill >he tried to cook them on the open coils of the shitty oven we had >he literally just chopped up sweet potatoes and put them on the coils while on high >he had to stop because the smoke was so bad >mfw
Colton Morales
How often do you have food shoot out sideways when you microwaving it? placing on of those on top works fine.