I look at dishes as part of the cooking process. I’m not done cooking until the dishes are finished because, scream it with me, FRESH, WET FOOD WASHES RIGHT OFF DISHES. Dishes suck when you wait to do them.
@@acrollie very much this, I have developed a habit of rinsing the just-used dishes so that they look clean but aren’t sanitized … but then they sit there waiting for me to actually make them “clean.” When I could have just used soap and be finished w it 😭😭😭😭
This is why I’m useless without a dishwasher. I can put them in the special cupboard. And rinsing first actually makes dishwasher detergent work worse due to enzymatic stuff, so I have an excuse to not do that And now I can focus my dishwashing energies on wooden chopsticks and cutting boards, and my fancy Japanese knife I inherited
@@mirrepoix My girlfriend and I ided to struggle with this when we first moved in together but after moving house we only now have the bare minimum amount of dishes we need so stuff can no longer pile up. I've found it a lot more manageable that way.
I didn’t understand it until reading this and remembering latter and ladder sound the same in lots of American accents (I know he said it out loud… but my brain just transcribed it into latter and got confused why staircase)
Noah, it’s actually fine to wash a wok with soap as most modern soaps are not strong enough to destroy your patina (aka. seasoning) Seasoning also doesn’t apply to the black wok (it looks like it has a nonstick coating on it already)
thank u based adhd youtuber, i've been joining body double discords bc i live alone and got no friends to invite irl, and your videos are a great help whenever i need to hear background noise/listening someone ramble while doing chores. thank u so much for ur work
i big-time have inattentive adhd and i came from the main channel but i really dig these vibes because i dissociate a lot and listening to you kind of monologue helps prompt me to actually stay in my own brain and think actual thoughts, so thanks noah!
Hey Noah! A fun and good fact to know about lizards (and some amphibians too) - our hands and skin have oils that are really bad for them so if you plan to catch more salamanders specifically to use gloves :)
This is just me but, my favorite way ive found to do dishes is start wilth one thing, say silverware, wash all of it and then move onto the next type of dish like bowls. Wash everything first and then rinse all at the same time. Use less soap and water that way and spend les time at the sink.
i just really enjoy listening to this dude think his thoughts through while i'm chilling and he's doing dishes and i'm sometimes folding my laundry or i'm just gaming. idk. it scratches an itch that is fulfilled by listening to friends vent but they only have so much to vent about. arguably a little parasocial, but yeah i just enjoy this content and am very surprised to find it as engaging as i do i suppose? keep it up household chore king
0:07 Thank you for showing us your mess. I too have a mess but thanks to you I know I can just do it. I'mma do it with you. EDIT: 1:10 oh snap I'm doing the thing the vid is about!
I already watch your main channel and have been for a while and I love the thought and passion that you put into them, but I am so grateful that I found this channel when I did. You recommended a reminder app and it has genuinely helped me so much. I struggle with adhd and sometimes feel like I literally cannot function as a normal human being. I miss assignments because I have no concept of time, forget to eat because of my medicine, miss out on opportunities simply because I couldn’t answer an email, and I find it so hard to clean because I don’t even know where to start and I get overwhelmed. I always feel like everybody else has it all together and I’m just broken and somebody like me could never be successful, but hearing that you have struggles that are so similar to mine and seeing that you can still get things done even with them, makes me feel like I can do this and that I can still function like a “normal” person. I just want you know that you genuinely, no bullshit, have helped motivate me to get my shit together, at least throughout the past week or so. So thank you and please keep making these videos because for some reason you yapping about capitalism while washing the dishes cures my adhd paralysis.
This is such a sweet comment! It is really hard to break through barriers like these, but if you start making small differences and just make a habit of those differences, doing bigger things to improve your life will come easier later. It took me many years to get to the point I'm at now, and it just took a lot of effort finding our what works for me to keep me on track with tasks
@@sniffumevoli I think my main problem is that I spend so much energy trying to do things the “right” way instead of spending that time, like you said, figuring out what works for me. It might look wrong or disorganized to other people, but if I find a system that makes sense to me, that’s all that matters.
Those salamanders are adorable. I used to live next to some extended family when I first moved out and their littlest kid who was probably five or six then would collect crawdads. Almost every night after work I would walk my puppy and he would be in the lane culverts hollering about shrawdads lol
Hey Noah, I'm going through a breakup right now and your videos have been helping me get up and do tasks or take care of myself when it's really hard to do so. I'd never seen this kind of content before where it feels real, relatable, and comforting to just listen to someone talk and either do my tasks with them or watch until I feel motivated enough to do things on my own. I have ADHD as well so it really helps to have a visual aid for the things that feel overwhelming. Your videos remind me I can get through this, one task at a time. All my love and support man, thanks for being you.
These videos are so good noah. Keep at it man. Still love your main channel videos but there's something special and intimate about these videos, at the risk of sounding too parasocial-ey. Can't wait for the next lil one way conversation upload.
I was just thinking I need to get my cleaning done this morning since it’s my day off but could already tell I wasn’t feeling motivated enough. I appreciate you sharing your experience with adhd, and I hope that esp men will find a good role model in you
Yo as far as dishes, in general; Regarding gloves and such. Hot water is your friend. As hot as you can handle. It dissipates, and is a disinfectant. Hot water at around 110 degrees kills most pathogens and bacteria that aren’t cool for us.
Haven't watched the video yet and I'm about to head to bed but wanted to say I was watching one of your other chores videos while doing my chores and this was my exact thought.
Body doubling IS good actually. I have ADHD (recently diagnosed in my mid-30s) and I like putting videos on in the background while I do my little tasks :) Also, videos are a good way to mark time if you have time blindness!
I have been loving these videos Noah. I always put videos of people cleaning on in the background when its time to tackle the ADHD burnout messes. The problem is the people who usually make this kind of content don't have adhd so I end up feeling like my cleaning abilities suck. You however break everything down in to manageable bits. Im using a jug of water and a sponge on the bathroom now its actually really helpful and I just really didn't now how to approach cleaning my bathroom properly before.
These videos are so calming & I appreciated the demonstration of the inattentive adhd, its something im realizing happens to me a lot, especially after woeking 5 nights a week as a barback. I wake up on mondays and have lost entire days just due to this. Ty for these vida dude, helps me calm down during my monday toke sesh haha.
You CAN use a small amount of soap on cast iron and woks--provided that they are already well-seasoned with a good patina. But try to avoid steel wool or really abrasive scrubbers when scrubbing them! Instead you can put a tablespoon of salt in the pan and scrub with the salt.
“The moment when you start cleaning your dishes and realize that the dry dishes haven’t been unloaded” hit too close to home 😂 One task always leads to another until an hour later you’ve started a dozen chores and finished none.
I love a good body double. My core friend group in college would often study together by all just putting in headphones and ignoring each other in the same room. Even now I’ll invite people over when I’m procrastinating cleaning.
In my household we wipe down woks and cast iron with a dry paper towel, if it’s really dirty you can do the hot water sponge method. We’ve had some cookware in the family last for generations
Not me making my wok and rice cooker dirty (making Thai curry for me and my boyfriends) whilst Noah cleans his Ricecooker and wok. Thanks for body doubling me bro.
hot tip with no judgement: wooden utensils can be washed with a soapy sponge, rinsed well of course, and most importantly Towel Dry those puppies. Towel drying them will sustain their freshness
thank u for the peer pressure noah i finally cleaned my bed of all the sick grossness on my bed and qm now im a now recovering in a cozy little rat bed as the gods intended
Noah I'm just saying, I'm loving these videos, and I hope content on this second channel is in your plans because I dig watching these as I start my workday. Really helps to calm me down and stay focused on what I have to do that day!
Cast iron enthusiast here - regular dish soap is 100% okay, preferred in fact, to use on cookware that builds up seasoning, such as cast iron, carbon steel, carbon steel woks. The important thing is just making sure you dry it well by hand. Don’t just wash and then let them air dry, because the water will make them rust. That’s it. Anyone telling you otherwise is coming from old passed down knowledge from olden days when soap had chemicals that broke down the seasoning. Does not apply anymore.
Me: I have OCD and absolutely nothing else 🥰🥰 The AuDHD vibes of sensory issues, needing body doubling, time blindness, masking, my entire life: am i a fuckin joke to you 😢
The anti soap thing is always so funny to me. It was true when soap had lye in it… modern soap is fine. It’s not even a patina, it’s a polymer chain caused by food oils bonding together. The proper stuff can’t even be touched by gentle dish soap, and my seasoning (on my carbon-steel wok and frying pan) still builds-up even when washing with detergent. It might build up faster without detergent, but I like to get rid of all the other oil that hasn’t polymerised. It’s fine. A bit of modern soap on your sponge won’t kill it, you need tons of soap and like an hour of hard work with steel wool to get rid of it.
You can put the water in the pan and put it on the stove, heat it, wipe it out w a spatula, throw that bad boy back on the stove to dry it. Loving the vids OH and you might wipe some oil in it while it’s hot, with a towel or something
A way to create more suds and also save on dish soap is to have a little sink bowl where you put dish soap and dilute it with water, so when you dip the sponge in there and squeeze to mix, you get a satisfying amount of bubbles -- i also fill it with just water and put soap on the sponge and then squeeze it in to mix, and that gives me good amount of suds. My family (parents and sister) likes to put used utensils in the bowl which bothers me severely, I cannot describe how much i hate when they put dirty stuff in the clean stuff, like even thinking about it and sharing it with you is truly like messing with me
"Noah" definitely should've been listed as a treatment option. We'll have to get that cleared before the next DSM. 🤔🤔🤔 Dana Andersen does a mix of videos about unmasking and some are also body double videos. ADHD Love created an app with body doubling videos.
I wonder if that spontaneity you mentioned is why so many people can end up falling for people while studying abroad, bc it forces them outside of their routine in their home country anyways gj 1v1'ing the rice
Here I am, in 2024, and still have no clue what "Gamergate" even is or was about. Yet it still gets brought up every now and then, truly incredible to me.
I'm suddenly reminded of the song _Jesus Does the Dishes_ by Wingnut Dishwashers Union - one of folk-punk hero Pat the Bunny's many retired projects. _Have we made it anywhere at all if the dishes are never done?_
Damn every time i go back home to Florida i HAVE to catch all the lizards. And yes, this channel is now one of my comfort noise channels. Plus eye candy hahahah
For me, body doubling is only good if it’s someone I can debunk drama with, and if it’s NOT my dad, I will literally stop working if my dad enters the room lol
Virtual body doubling works for me cuz physical/RL body doubling doesn’t work for me. I tend to want to talk to the person around me or i feel distracted by the person physical presence or I feel like they are hovering over me
I found your channel today, a video was recommended on my feed, and I fucking love your content. Like you’re my favorite RU-vidr now. Done had me cleaning the whole ass house 😭 and I got mad adhd and bipolar too, so it’s just feels nice to watch someone more like me. Your humor kills me and the way you talk is nice and comforting, and you use like ACTUAL fucking words not just repeating stuff yk? You’re funny as fuck, but you’re also insightful and it’s just nice as hell to watch fr 😭🫵🙏
That black wok that you have looks like it has a nonstick coating, it can just be washed like a regular pan. The other one is most likely carbon steel, and people you’re not supposed to use soap, but I’ve never really had a problem with it as as long as I heat it up and add a thin coat of oil to it afterwards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
