EDIT: I’ve received enough help to get a washing machine now and will have it on Tuesday. Thanks for the suggestions though.
I’m not having much luck with my mutual aid request for a new washing machine. I’m finding it impossible to wash my clothes by hand. I have very little use of my left arm, as well as issues with my hands. I’m finding i just can’t wring the clothes out by hand, which means i can’t get the laundry disinfectant I have to use, out properly. They’re being left itchy and smelly. Does anyone have any good tips on dealing with this?
Cool experiment! Washing clothes is generally exhausting, historically it’s one of the things people first outsource when they subjugate others. Laundry used to take alllllll fucking day.
This comment makes me think of all the people I went to uni with who got scurvy lol. Although I suppose if you don’t bake a rolling pin is not very useful.
A rolling pin was one of the first kitchen tools I bought in grad school because there wasn’t one in my dorm suite’s kitchen. In the last 7 years it has been used exactly zero times. Lmao
Why don’tcha use this as a reason to take some time to yourself and make some dumplings, or croissants if you’re feeling cheeky. Baking is very relaxing :3
It’s one of those Honky Cooking Items we don’t really use in our household, like the giant German cleaver my wife ignores in favour of the caidao, we just use a dowel instead.
Fair fair. I just have a smoothed and oiled wide dowel because handles break under high pressure but I can lean my full body on this.
Also caidaos are great (my fav knife for general cooking) but cleavers are for chopping which will chip the fine edge of a caidao. If you are vegan though you don’t really have a need to cleave through bones etc.
I feel like even a lot of carnists are alienated enough from their food that they don’t need to chop through bones regularly. Maybe to expose marrow for stock?
When I was on my “factory farming bad, meat needed” arc I did a lot of hunting and “ethical” butchers stuff. Might’ve skewed my idea of what meat eating people eat.
In the west, most people just get cuts from the grocery store or maybe the butcher shop. Some hunters butcher their own stuff, but most around me just take the whole carcass to a butcher to process for them so they don’t have to do the “icky part”.
Murder is ok but I draw the line at dissection 🙄
I’m from aus but am a shut in (well a shut up and leave me alone in the bush) and grew up working on the school farm and studying ag in a family that was very waste nothingy. You’re probably right about most people not even making stock from bones often.
Honestly ive found smaller cleavers to be pretty great for the hefty roots. The rutabagas, celeri root, etc., especially when they’re big. Also for garlic cause I just place all the cloves and crush them at once instead of one at a time (yes I know I use “too much” garlic, no I won’t stop, it is the perfect food).
I mean, the caidao will serve this function perfectly. It’s basically just a thinner cleaver that’s better at all tasks other than going through bone.
Ah gotcha. I probably should have looked at a picture of a caidao before speaking 😅
Yeah, I have a tiny kitchen, so I don’t really bake at all, I don’t have the room, I did have a rolling pin at one point though, I just can’t remember where it went. I don’t think I’ve got scurvy, but my dentist did recommend I have less lemon since the acid is bad for your teeth, so…maybe?
And it’s actually a weird coincidence that I have a bottle of wine at all, I don’t normally drink wine, but I was making a recipe earlier this week that needed wine in it, otherwise I don’t think I would’ve had a replacement at all. Barely used it in the recipe (it asked for a full bottle, which would’ve tasted awful), so I’m glad I found a use for it beyond that.