There are a few posts that I think about a lot since my time of coming to daily kos. One is the post that brought me here, a post after the disastrous 2008 ABC Democratic primary debate by Hunter called The Collapse of the National Press. If you haven’t read it, you really should. It is brilliant.
Another post that I think of frequently is Paul Ryan doesn't know how to wash dishes by hematuria.
Look, I realize it probably doesn't matter, it was just a staged photo-op. But that is not how you wash dishes in a commercial kitchen. Any chef worth his salt would cringe at the way he went about cleaning. And that totally makes sense, I mean Paul Ryan has never had a real job other than Congress in his whole life and his "summer work" is about as suspicious as his sub 3 hour marathon time. But it still says something about a person who thinks there is no skill or technique in something like dish washing and just assumes he can do it correctly because it is a skill set he believes is beneath him. Harsh you say? I ask you this, have you ever volunteered or worked in a kitchen? If you have you will know you didn't just go up to a sink and start washing dishes. And if you did you probably got yelled at by the dish washer for not doing it right. That is why the first thing you do is ask questions. For one, why are there 3 sinks? Why is the soap in a giant gallon sized bottle that is not very easy to pour? Why is there no brush? The answer is because you don't wash dishes in a professional kitchen like you do at home. And the fact is if you watch that video, you see that Ryan was washing dishes like he does at home. Which makes it clear he doesn't know how a real kitchen works. And that is okay. He doesn't have to. But the fact he thinks he knows how is why he is so dangerous.
hematuria then goes on to provide an excellent tutorial in how to wash dishes in a commercial kitchen
So you fill sink one with at least 110 degree water. Why that hot? Because that is what the FDA requires. The water should be uncomfortably hot. Which is probably what the hot water heater is set to, so you wait until the tap is as hot as can be and then fill your sink. You then pour a small amount of soup, as much as Paul Ryan used on one dish, into sink one.
Sink two you fill with warm rinse water. No soap or chemicals.
You fill sink three with 75 degree water and however much sanitizer as the directions call for. You don't want the water too hot or else it messes with the sanititzer. If you don't have sanitizer you can use 1 teaspoon of bleach to 1 gallon of warm water.
You then soak your dishes in sink one for awhile, using the scrubber pad to remove excess food. Note, you do not use brushes or anything else like that because they are super expensive compared to a scrubber pad and not any more effective. Which is why I cringe when Paul Ryan asks where the brushes are. Oh man, what a tool.
At the time this was written Paul Ryan had just shown us he really cared about poor people by showing up and washing a couple of clean dishes for the cameras at a St. Vincent de Paul facility. This action ended up causing a lot of harm to the agency and was a huge inconvenience in the first place
The newspaper reports that Ryan's staff asked volunteers "to leave some pots and pans unwashed so the VP nominee and his family could do something when he arrived."
"We had to save dishes," she said. "We would have gone home by the time he arrived. We didn't need him to do the dishes. It was getting late, and I said that we were closing in five minutes. I waited longer than that, and he finally arrived."
Sherba expressed regret that she had allowed the visit to take place.
"It was the phoniest piece of baloney I've ever been associated with," she said. "In hindsight, I would have never let him in the door."
Go read hematuria’s full post on the art of washing dishes in a commercial kitchen. It is worth the click.