Personally, I think the person who cooks should clean the cookware and the kitchen. The incentives are then aligned, and at least for me, it makes me a much tidier cook.
Also, cooking can be fun, cleaning not so much. Separating cooking/cleaning duties just punishes the person who doesn’t get to cook.
In our house, as in a lot of houses, the person that does all the effort to make the food has completed their portion of the labor exchange. They’ve already spent a couple of hours cooking. Why spend another 30 minutes cleaning when there’s a person who has done nothing but eat the food available to clean it all up?
Of course the person cooking the food should make sure to make this job easier by stacking and soaking and doing the other things so that it’s not chaos for the person who enjoyed eating the food but hadn’t participated in its making.
Personally, I think the person who cooks should clean the cookware and the kitchen. The incentives are then aligned, and at least for me, it makes me a much tidier cook.
Also, cooking can be fun, cleaning not so much. Separating cooking/cleaning duties just punishes the person who doesn’t get to cook.
In our house, as in a lot of houses, the person that does all the effort to make the food has completed their portion of the labor exchange. They’ve already spent a couple of hours cooking. Why spend another 30 minutes cleaning when there’s a person who has done nothing but eat the food available to clean it all up?
Of course the person cooking the food should make sure to make this job easier by stacking and soaking and doing the other things so that it’s not chaos for the person who enjoyed eating the food but hadn’t participated in its making.