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from the would-you-like-fries-with-that? dept.
the Good Housekeeping Institute's recent publication of a dishwashing guide for all those young people (2 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the UK) who have never learned the ancient art of washing up. In a nutshell, use hot water and rubber gloves, pre-scrape and soak dirty pans, change your water halfway through, and wash in the following order: glasses, mugs, cups, saucers, side plates, dinner plates, cutlery, serving dishes, pans, roasting tins.
While not knowing how to wash dishes is kind of a big deal, it's the whole idea of not being to handle oneself as a versatile, independent adult that is most concerning. Young people lack a wide range of practical skills these days, as revealed in a recent study by YouGov. More than half of young people (18-24) do not know how to set up utility bills upon moving to a new place; 54 percent cannot replace a fuse in a plug; 34 percent can't reset the fuse box after a switch has tripped; 37 percent do not know how to defrost a freezer; and 11 percent is clueless when it comes to changing lightbulbs. (You can see the entire sad list here.)
So what? There's an app for that.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday October 06 2017, @06:03PM (1 child)
I realized I failed as a parent when my son came home from his first quarter of Culinary school and told us about the first class he had was how to wash dishes and cooking utensils. Its a fact that a chef has a responsibility to teach and supervise proper dish washing technique to hired staff because kids these days never learned to washed dishes by hand any more.
Even new modern restaurant kitchens do not do everything with commercial dish washing machines.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Friday October 06 2017, @11:29PM
Hospitality school in the Caribbean teaches basics like washing the cooking pans between different meal preparations to avoid transfer of allergens (especially shellfish) to non-allergenic dishes - the "about our restaurants" channel on cable TV even had the new chefs on camera telling about these new-learned skills.
Same thing goes down in all kinds of University majors: assurance of a set of core competencies, whether that's math, written communication, or the basics of your chosen field.
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