Cookers vs. Cleaners

OrganicSprout · 2016-06-28T21:32:12+00:00

Cleaning is never fun

I enjoy cleaning quite a bit. It's satisfying.

Farming leads to sedentary high-density living, making for a dirtier and more infectious environment, and putting farmers more on their guard for tidying up and napalming household surfaces.

I actually found that the city accumulated more dust, and gross air. It's almost like the gross dirtiness settled more heavily in the city.

I couldn't relate to this article in any way. In fact, I felt like it was written by someone looking into the world of cooking and cleaning and coming up with assumptions. I wonder if that's because of my culture?

Eterfinifrete · 2016-06-28T22:52:32+00:00

I LOVE cooking and I have to really force myself to clean...for me, cooking is creative, whereas cleaning is the very opposite of creative, you're just putting things back the way they were before! I love to cook for the people in my family but I can be shy cooking for those I don't know well. The article made it seem that cookers are more expansive whereas cleaners are more inner-focused...I'm definitely inner-focused. Cooking is one of the ways I look inwards and center myself.

liftinginthemoment · 2016-06-28T22:48:27+00:00

Lol what if you're neither?

I definitely prefer cleaning to cooking and fortunately SO absolutely loves to cook. However, I also enjoy eating very much haha.

jade_cat · 2016-06-28T21:05:56+00:00

What an interesting point of view! I would never have thought of opposing cleaning and cooking, much less use that dichotomy to learn more about a woman's character. But it definitely makes sense!

I'd say I'm a mix of both, but primarily cleaner. I absolutely adore cleaning, and when I cook, I like to cook alone, but I love cooking for several people.

It might also be possible to make a parallel between the Myers-Briggs types and the cleaner/cooker types. From what the article say, it definitely sounds like introverts would have a strong tendency to be cleaners and extroverts would have a strong tendency to be cookers, and the three other MB traits would either reinforce or inhibit that tendency.

kitsunethreetails · 2016-06-28T22:39:46+00:00

Interesting article, the women in my life are all cookers. On my dad's side, my grandmother was both a cooker and cleaner, she was always making all sorts of desserts and meals, and her house was always spotless. My mother's side is definitely more of the cooking, not so much cleaning.

I find myself right in the middle, I enjoy cooking and actually enjoy cleaning.

am3liia · 2016-06-29T02:29:16+00:00

Interesting post! I definitely prefer to cook. I can easily spent hours in the kitchen, and I read tons of cooking blogs and tips everyday. It's fun for me, whereas cleaning is definitely a chore and something I have to force myself to do. I would say my father's side would lean more toward cleaners, and my mom's more toward cookers. The cleaners (and that culture in general) are more reserved socially and concerned with efficiency and simplicity. The cookers/my mom's culture are more social, decorative, and carefree.

CoochQuarantine · 2016-07-07T21:59:04+00:00

I do not clean. Like at all. Don't get me wrong. I tidy up and organize. But anything that requires me to touch chemicals or cleaning apparatus makes me cringe..... however.... I can Cook all day long. I love love love to cook. When my man is fed I'm happiest. When he's got his lunched packed I'm happiest. When his coffee is brewing I'm happiest. I dunno what it is about the act of feeding people that brings me such joy but it does.

Camille11325 · 2016-06-28T20:40:28+00:00

This is such a neat idea and in my experience/observations it holds up well. How do the women around you match up?

I personally am a cooker and have to listen to music, watch a show, or have a makeup tutorial playing whenever I do any cleaning to make it bearable. In contrast I sometimes spend hours in the kitchen making elaborate meals, and all of our food is from scratch on a daily basis. There is definitely a connection between cooking for others and expressing my love/care for them and the only time I actually enjoy cleaning is when I am stressed out and need to reset emotionally, in isolation.

Please keep in mind that this post is a generalisation, and women can be a mix of both types as well.

littleteafox · 2016-06-29T12:04:27+00:00

I enjoy cooking much more than cleaning, especially baking! It's so relaxing to me and I love giving away the goods ;) it gives me personal satisfaction when I can cook for my bf.

Sunhappy_DC · 2016-06-29T12:53:41+00:00

I don't know about yall but I'm a cleaner. If you get me an afternoon, I'll clean my house top to bottom spotless. I also do it to relax my mind. I am an aspiring minimalist -- I HATE clutter. I love having an almost empty and visually clean place to come home to.

Some friends I know, when they are stressed, they will bake like tons of stuff for nothing. Cooking is their go-to "me time". I find that interesting.

trynarpw · 2016-06-29T16:47:41+00:00

Hmm, that's interesting. I personally love to cook and I love to clean but I HATE washing dishes. When I'm at home all day by myself all I want to do is cook and clean, but after cleaning the whole place, I hate the thought of cooking since I'd have to wash dishes afterwards. A constant struggle in my life, especially with a job that is 10 hours a day with 2.5 more hours of commuting on top of that. Oy.

whistling_dixie · 2016-06-29T18:06:34+00:00

This is a really interesting article - a few of us were just talking about cleaning being a solitary activity earlier. I don't know what it is, but even if you don't like cleaning, it's just so much easier to do when you have the house to yourself.

I think I'm more of a mix of both. If I am home alone, I will idly pace the house and clean and reorganize as I go. In the same vein, I get really creative and adventurous with my cooking when I'm home alone - I like to surprise my fiance when he gets home with something he's never had before that he'll love.

That said, the standard in our home is that it's MOSTLY clean and MOSTLY organized and I cook pretty simple meals on a nightly basis. I do both, but I do less normally.

Title	Cookers vs. Cleaners
Author	Camille11325
Upvotes	5
Comments	26
Date	June 28, 2016 8:35 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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