Dirty Stoves

Spud Heads,

With a number of restaurants and bars closed for take out only and most people living on a tight budget right now, people are finally going into their kitchen and cooking their meals. With nothing exciting to post on social media, people have begun to post the meals they are cooking.

While I am 100% here for it and genuinely enjoy seeing everyone's culinary creativity(some are really gross), I do have one MAJOR issue, their stoves. Posting up a picture of your food is completely fine, but getting your insanely dirty stove in the background with stains that were clearly left there from a previous meal is not.

Seeing a beautifully plated chicken cutlet with rice dish on a stove stained with red pasta sauce from last night's dinner is more heartbreaking than finding out your significant other actually enjoys sushi(I said what I said). I understand that being quarantined for over a month can have some negative effects on people, but maintaining your dignity should always be a priority. These are stressful times and we all want to be excited about your homemade, low-budget, imitation Chipotle burrito bowl, but it's hard to get past the 3 month build up of grease that's staring us harder than Elijah Connor stared at P. Diddy.

Peeps, keep posting pictures of your food after you cleaned up your stove. OR, just take a picture after you put it on a plate.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

-D.P