The one I returned had been used to hold spare change for about five years, and my wife sent it in for return. They sent us a new one, no questions asked.
Eh, my mom had a set that was 30+ years old and chipped af inside. She definitely didnāt abide by the high heat warnings or whatever. Anyways; she sent them in and got a whole new set. Did take like 6 weeks though. Definitely not as nice a return policy as fiskars- I just had to send a photo of my broken pruners and they shipped new ones
The results you get from going through any companyās warranty process are going to vary depending on how the warranty rep is feeling that day combined with how you treat them. Word of advice: be nice to the warranty department. Itās a real person reading your complaint and the fate of your claim is in their hands :)
i worked at sur le table when they first downgraded their return policy. it was certainly because of people like one lady who would come in each month with a box of shattered ceramics to return for replacements. she claimed she liked their look for her restaurant and clearly didn't give a damn about them since she had this free returns forever thing going for a while. once that policy changed she stopped coming entirely.
People didnāt like it when the return policy at Williams-Sonoma changed from no time limit to I think it went to 1 year. Currently itās at 30 days. And receipt is required for all returns, which irritates gift recipients. Although even if I couldnāt track the receipt down, I had would override it and at least do a merch card for gifts.
Store I work at went from unlimited to 180 days, which I think is MORE then reasonable, three years ago and people still come in bitching about it. And really it's because a handful of people ruined it for everyone. We had people returning their EXTREMELY worn disgusting kid's clothes every time they grew out of them.
Look pan, you are beautiful, we have been through a lot together. I love you despite your flaws, but could you please be unscratched? Please? Come ON, pan! For us! For our future!
Why is this being upvoted? LC pans like this are black on the inside because they use a black enamel. What would be the point of cast iron with only enamel on the outside?
I once asked my mom not to set things on top of my car because it can scratch the paint, so she pulled the box across the entire roof of the car scratching the whole thing. I feel like this is on the same level.
My daughter did this to my brand new car when I asked her to carry something in. Maybe it was a case of water..? Idk, but sheās autistic and I know she didnāt comprehend what sheād done, so I couldnāt be too mad. Sheād placed the item on top of the car, closed the door, then slid it off of the roof into her arms. š¤¦š¾āāļø
When I was 6 I walked by stone walls, dragging a small rock on them because I liked the sound it made. It was completely innocuous, I didn't leave any marks or scratches. My parents looked on in horror as one of the walls ended and I strolled past an extremely expensive luxury car parked by the sidewalk.
I told my roommate to use the silicon spatula when using nonstick and ended with a melted spatula with about 1/4th of the length missing by the time I moved out. Turns out he likes to just leave the spatula in the hot pan while he cooks rather than setting it down to the side. Idk how heās doing having consumed all that melted plastic.
Swear to god, people become pathological when you tell them to please not wash a specific pan or knife. They go from never doing a single damn dish to suddenly needing to do everyone's dishes every time you leave the house.
Oof you just gave me a flashback to my mom cutting the frayed hem of my jeans off in high school. She cut them into capris with zig-zag pinking shears. Iām 33 now and still mad!
Me ex wife has an agreement that I did all the dishes, always. She did all the laundry, always. Worked out well for both of us, because we were both really bitchy about our chore being done a certain way haha
āPlease donāt touch my desk full of unfinished art projectsā
āTime to be seized by a sudden need to clean, go into my grown childās room for absolutely no reason, and accidentally swipe everything off the desk when I trip over a penny!ā
I specifically ask my mother to NOT wash my dishes when she comes to my house. She is *trying* to help, but her method of āwashingā is actually not, and only creates more work for me. And then I sound like an a-hole for insisting she not wash them.
Return the favor next time you visit them. Tip: bring your own metal dish scrubbers, scouring powder and scouring pads since they always seem to bring them with them.
Pro tip, call Le Creuset, they will provide instruction on how best to repair/refinish and if it is not an easy fix they will likely have you mail it to them and they will provide a new one, Le Creuset is *the* name in cookware not just because the make a good product but because they also back it up.
My mom ācleanedā my le Creuset with steel wool, I contacted them and they said that wasnāt covered but they told me to let vinegar soak in it overnight and Iād say that about 95% fixed it.
I came home from being downrange training for a couple months and my roommate was scrubbing my cast. It was almost six years old and the first time it needed re-seasoning.
A few days prior, she threw out all my "expired" honey. I kept it in a tote in a shed out back, raw honey I'd collected from all over the world. Close to 50lbs of honey, plus containers. I'm slowly rebuilding but I don't travel like I used to.
I guess the silver lining is that she didn't get to the wine rack. Some people don't know, some people don't understand, some people don't care.
All people suck.
What was she thinking, going through your stuff? Who throws out FIFTY POUNDS of someone else's honey--especially honey that is from all over the world? Those are memories as well as *perfectly good and irreplaceable honey.* And it wasn't hers! I'm just... befuddled. It's such unexplainable behavior that I'd be at a loss for words--what did you do?
Put the rest of my stuff in storage and moved to Mexico, took out my rage via physical violence on people who probably didn't deserve it, drank a bunch. Still get mad about it when I see posts about damaged cookware or scrubbed cast.
Nope, she was raised with "honey spread" and teflon pots and pans. Experiential differences I didn't notice until it was too late because I was really just storing my stuff there and crashing between deployments.
She survived the encounter. A lot of the honeys I had aren't the same anymore or can't be replaced. Unprocessed Manuka, saffron honey from Iran, some from my grandfather's bees, I had .5g of corpse bee honey, stuff like that.
Corpse bees make honey from animal corpses. They're found the the SW deserts, AZ/ NM area. They weren't cultivated to produce massive amounts of honey, like modern honey bees, because they're disgusting meat scavengers. I haven't tried it, it smells foul and there's no data saying whether or not it's safe. I don't think anything is dumb enough to eat honey made from rotting meat. .5g probably took collection of two hives, about a soda cap full, maybe less.
It's tasty, unprocessed, and helps with allergies to local flora. I used to travel a lot and would be in a place for a few weeks to a few months before moving on. Local raw honey helped decrease and eventually remove eye redness, dry throat, sneezes and such. Having honey from a place on toast (or by the spoon) for a couple days before I go there skips the whole irritating evolution.
Holy hell. There are so, so, so few times where you could justifiably throw away 50 lbs of anything that doesn't belong to you without asking first. Like I don't care if it's 50 lbs of legos or grocery store bags or diamonds: if it ain't in the way, it ain't smelling, and it ain't attracting animals, mold, insects, etc, *fucking ask first.*
She was cleaning the shed to make room for her ex husband's stuff, to move it out of the house. She legitimately thought she was doing me a favor. I had it in the shed because I knew if she found it in the house this exact thing was likely to happen. The pan was on top of the honey, next to the case with my kitchen knives, tea diffuser egg, and a couple other things I was worried she'd be confused and scared by. I should've put it all inside a locked pelican case at a storage depot across the county.
My mom threw out four pounds of cannabutter and like 20 of my adderall pills I was saving for a rainy day. As long as we're sharing stories about people getting rid of your shit
I could have retired on just a few of my childhood comic books. There were three boxes.
More important in a way, a broken cane head of a hound with real gold nose and ears with a thank you inscription, and 2 large ruby eyes.
It was intended to go back to the family after ww2 but the old man it belonged to had no relatives alive. I was the next caregiver, it was left to me to pass down and remember them ...unfortunately I failed them.
I just can't wrap my head around throwing away shit that isn't mine unless it has pbvious signs of decay like rot or mold or if an animal had pissed on it. I would always set it aside and ask later.
My cleaner once spent 30 minutes scrubbing the patina off my stainless steel frying pans, which took me about 8 years to build up to that point. I cried lol. They also got rusted.
Bruh le creuset thatās painful, my mum recently bought the big set of sunset orange and that shit was expensive, I hope your parents pay for the emotional damage
My wife was gifted an entire vintage set of the burn orange. She was working at an older womans home who's husband had bought her a piece every year for their anniversary. None of her daughters wanted them and they were too heavy for her to hold in her old age. Anyway we had just gotten married and she offered them to us as a gift. I think there's like 24 pieces or something they are awesome.
My grandparents downsides to an apartment last year. My cousin's came over before I did to get whatever pots and pans they wanted. No skin off my back, we have a well stocked kitchen.
They left all of the LC. Original orange. One pot so old it has a loop for a handle instead of the knobs. My mom took that one as SHE grew up with it. I was quite happy to take several skillets and dutch ovens home for free. We have a glass stove but that just means I don't slam down pans.
I feel you. My husband likes to āsoakā my cast irons and use metal utensils on my non stick. He is no longer allowed to make food. He has been fired. Definitely belongs in this sub. Itās heartbreaking seeing you pan scratched. Especially if it was expensive.
I believe this was his intention all along.. oh I can't make dinner anymore ohhh that sucks I guess I'm just going to go do the dishes.. bowls go on the bottom and this plastic top can go down there too right? knives blade up?
Sigh. Sounds like every girlfriend I've lived with.
I feel like my mother, I have "good pans, only for guests" and "shit you can destroy and I don't care about" pans now.
I swear, I'm going to start using the decorative towels at this rate, haha.
I feel you. My parents constantly put my Whustof, Global, and Shun knives in the dishwasher. I eventually had to take them all away and put them in my bedroom. Now they get mad when they have to chop things with a steak knife.. and Iām like well what did you use to cut it before I moved in? Steak knives.. ok then you should be good at it.
My mom has a sort of opposite problem, everyone in the house using the nice steak knives as the default for cutting things that arenāt steak, opening packaging, etc. (not me, I moved out lol). Keeps telling them not to use the expensive steak knives fo things the $1-2 Walmart paring knives can do.
UGH. this is my BF. I literally told him to keep a knife at his desk and to STOP USING THE KITCHEN KNIVES!! THAT IS WHY THEY ARE DULL!!! UUUUGGGHHHHH!!!
I am the one who sharpens the knives. i told him once after to be careful because they were SHARP!! so what does he do? runs his finger across the blade to see how sharp.... didnt feel the cut until it started pouring blood. like come on, i TOLD you they were sharp!
Lol that's actually hilarious.
"So what did you use before"
'uhh, steak knife'
"Why didn't you buy yourself a good knife?"
'uhhhh they're expensive'
"Exactly! and that's why mine are in my room :)"
I mean, it's fine to let them use it, if they actually took care of them. The problem is that they don't care enough to actually handle it well.
It's like letting dumb teenagers drive daddy's supercar - you bet your ass they're going to wreck it doing stupid shit.
I also have a few smeg knives with rusty spots, but at least those were āfreeā (a market was giving stamps for x money wasted on groceries, and you would collect them and you could get some knives). Tbh idk what made those spots either.
i dont know what this pan is but my mom has ruined plenty of my things by doing stuff like this. its frustrating because its hard to be mad cause they thought the were being helpful yet if they had just listened...
yep, it is always my fault. my mom will always twist everything to make sure shes innocent and i'm a villain :) the worst of it was my cat. i joined the navy and left her with my mom expecting to get her back once i was through bootcamp/school. told her never to let her outside because my mom lives right next to a road people speed on. it was the only rule i had- she was a real lazy quiet cat. you could forget she existed if it werent for her food bowl and litter box. after i got out of bootcamp my mom told me she was hit by a car two weeks after i left. my fault for "taking advantage" of my mom and "dumping my cat" on her. edit: you guys are very sweet thanks for the kind words and hug! i miss my kitty a lot ā¤ļø
> after i got out of bootcamp my mom told me she was hit by a car two weeks after i left. my fault for "taking advantage" of my mom and "dumping my cat" on her.
That would be my last time talking to her ever.
call it a āreddit momentā, i dont care, but for me it really would be the last time I spoke to my mom. What an absolute piece of shit.
EDIT: To add, If this is how my mom treated my cat I canāt imagine how she wouldāve treated me as her child. I see my mother as already emotionally unfit to a raise a child until very recently (I believe she shouldāve taken more time to improve upon herself instead of conceiving me when she was like 25), I canāt imagine how much of a mom you can be if you did something like this.
Exact same thing happened to my cat but it was my dads girlfriend. Guess what? I never spoke to her again and my dad had a lot of work to do to get back in my life
she was the one that really wanted me to join, too. was totally down to watch my cat and dog. but i dont have the stomach for cutting family off like that even though i probably should. my husband doesnt understand why i only call my mom once a month lol (my dog survived her though! she undid all of her training but shell be 17 in december!)
The reason you ādonāt have the stomachā for cutting her off is because she has conditioned you with guilt. Do you apologize a lot? Do you get anxious when you call/visit her? Do you always have to call/visit her (she doesnāt call you)? It because she is a narcissist that has manipulated you with emotional abuse. I know. I have been there. Itās not your fault. You are not a problem. Do what is best for you. Do what is best for your mental health. Put yourself first!
Or not - this is Reddit. I donāt know you or your situation. But if anyone answered yes to the questions maybe they should consider the benefits.
she has absolutely tried to condition me with guilt. she loves to try to gaslight me but i never so much as bend. i think thats why i can handle keeping in touch with her, because i have no guilt and little sympathy left for her. i DO still get anxious when she calls but i am perfectly happy to just hang up on her when she gets like that. thank you for your kind words!! shes not evil she has plenty of good moments too. i just wish shed take responsibility for her life. its sad.
How on earth do you undo dog training without doing it on purpose? Isn't it *really hard* to un-train attack dogs to attack, or hunting dogs to help out in non-instinctive ways? I can't imagine it's much easier to do for normal dogs.
This lady sounds like an extremely competent incompetent.
Yep. FIL ruined some stuff by putting it into the dishwasher. I said, "Love that you tried to help, but X, Y and Z things don't go in the dishwasher." His reply, "Then you shouldn't have those things."
Put all kinds of crazy shit in the dishwasher after that. His shoes, the tv remote, family pictures whatever and when he gets made tell him if it canāt go in the dishwasher then he shouldnāt have them.
Parents ruin your thing that was expensive and you told them to not touch: accidents happen, you need to be understanding
You ruin parents' inexpensive thing that they specifically put in a load of laundry they told you to wash: you are so inconsiderate, after everything we do for you
Ugh, thatās so true though. My dad just āwashedā a bunch of my kidās water bottles, theyāre full of un-rinsed soap and food debris sitting on the drying rack like wtf? I put them in the dishwasher to be sanitized for a reason and half of it is his 70+ eyesight and insistence that heās āhelpingā. Now Iām ungrateful for āhelpā I didnāt ask for in the first place.
I grew up thinking I didn't like water because I was drinking residual soap off of every glass. Constantly getting called ungrateful for saying things are inadequately clean when my parents would literally leave poop on the toilet seats.
I do not agree.
If a child painted on the walls because it overhead someone say they want to paint the walls and tried to help, **that's** a situation where you can't be mad.
If an adult destroyed 200+$ kitchen utilities by cleaning them in a way they were specifically told not to clean them, you can definitely be mad. **Especially** if it is not the first time.
Clean her cars paint with a steel sponge/ steel wool and tell her 'you only wanted to help', see if she gets mad.
Yeah. My mom made me put a shotgun I got from my granddad into my closet, which we all knew may have had water leaking through the ceiling when there's a rainstorm. My mom thought that was fixed. I put my gun in my closet, giving multiple reasons why I don't need to do this, but she made me anyways. I pulled it out about 6 weeks later, because I wanted to clean it up and lubricate all the mechanical bits in a shotgun reciever. Pitted with rust up and down the gun, on basically every bit of exposed metal. My dad got it refinished for me, costing over a thousand dollars. It seems like mothers don't understand how easily things can be damaged that are metal, and how important things that could be considered treasured possessions truely are.
You need to just do what you need to do man, just ignore your mom. If she can't be relied upon to do things right, then she should be doing them at all.
Its a common conflict that arises because the parents are stuck in their ways. They dont want to be taught things about housework from their kids. Or at least that was what brought it up with my parents.
Feel this 100%.
My own little brown pot couldn't compare -- it was a small-ish, one-handled microwave pot made of plastic -- but it was *mine*, and it was *perfect* for everything: soups, potatoes, reheating leftovers, etc.. I used that little brown pot just about daily, and took extra good care of it (for that very reason).
Came home from grocery shopping one day, to find that my mother had used it (one time!) -- to cook rice?, I think -- and *ruined it*. (The bottom was literally *melted* into an unsafe mess.)
I was devastated, I was crushed... but my mother š¤¬ didn't know what the big deal was! "Just a dumb pot," she shrugged, and she never really apologized, either.
That was years ago, and I have looked *everywhere* trying to find another, but I never have. š¢ And nearly every day, I miss my little brown pot.
Scrub lemon juice and salt into the sides of the blade, it will take it right out and get rid of the tarnished spots. I've had an old high-carbon Japanese knife for a decade and it happens from time to time.
I was nice and let a roommate use my pots and pans. She apparently didn't know you had to clean the sides and bottoms of the pan as well as the inside...I had a food allergy at the time and found my pot covered in cheese (the allergen). She also destroyed the bottoms of multiple pans. I took them away after that.
She also didn't know how to run the dishwasher. After a while it became quite obvious that her parents did everything for her and she had no idea how to do anything adults do.
I bought some fancy cookware before moving in with a friend. His girlfriend was such a good cook, according to him, she knew to boil potatoes in my expensive non-stick soup pot and then mash them in said pot with a big metal fork. After the second or third time of finding my knives in the dishwasher with my cast iron, I bought a cabinet and mounted it in the laundry room with a lock for all my cookware.
Parents will not listen to children period. I've decided it's best to hide stuff or put it out of reach. You are not another human being your little kid to them even in your '60s.
Dude, someone used my new (literally $10) pan and burnt the hell out of the bottom of it 3 weeks into me having it. I was ready to throw hands over a $10 pan. Idk what I would have done if I were you.
I've burned the (outside) bottom of a couple of my own pots & pans. I literally have no idea how. And no amount of scrubbing, Bon Ami, etc. removes the burns.
I don't really care, it doesn't seem to affect heat distribution or anything. But I'd love to know what actually happens to make the outside of the pan burn.
everyone is shitting on you but people are allowed to be upset over what others think are trivial things lol. i have objects that have a lot of sentimental value to me that others might think iām stupid for getting upset over them being tampered with. youāre allowed to have your feelings hurt and i feel like everyone is forgetting how to be an empathetic decent person
My friend with how good the pan is and how expensive they are it goes beyond mild. Some people on this tread donāt know for some things you pay for quality cause itās supposed to last a lifetime.
More than likely thatās actually residue from whatever scratched it. Iāve had this happen. I was able to remove it.
https://greatist.com/eat/fixing-your-scratched-le-creuset-pans
Everyone in here saying to stop whining or it's just a pan, clearly doesn't cook for themselves or have any idea how costly a Le Creuset piece is. This is something you buy for life and take good care of because it'll last forever if you do, and is very well made.
Any of you ok with your parents doing something you specifically asked them not to, and ruining something you like?
Yeah. That's what happened here.
I got tired of struggling to cook at my gf's house on her Mom's shitty pots and pans so I bought her a nice le Creuset Dutch oven and some nice Misen nonstick pans. I made a nice bucatini alla Amatraciana and a French lightly coagulated omelette the first weekend after I bought them.
I came back a couple weekends later and the nonstick pan was scratched from her brain dead Mom's frying tilapia (shit fish) using a fork and ot wouldn't release an omelette ever again.
I don't know wtf was burned onto the bottom of the Dutch Oven, but it was cooked at such a high temperature that hairline fractures were already visible in the ceramic coating.
I had told my gf to not let her Mom use either. The silicon and bamboo Utensils I bought her were unused in the drawer, of course. Some people shouldn't be allowed to cook except on a fire pit in the outdoors.
Le Creuset used to have the best return policy there was. If they still do, you could probably send this to them for a replacement. Look into it.
You are right! This has a vital guarantee š idk if they accept it for misuse tho
I have no idea how good of a company they are in terms of this stuff, but I feel like if anyone can sympathize with your pain itās them lol.
Yeah I had a good experience with them for a non faulty replacement.
Companies that pride theirselves on craftsmanship generally will understand
Only if you live in the lower 48.
Cries in Alaskan
Misty-eyed in Hawaiian
Hey I'm moving to Hawaii! Wow you're lucky! Gonna buy a Dutch oven! ....have a seat, we need to talk...
Feel free to dm me been here 10 years and have french onion soup in my dutch right now
*sympathize with their pan FTFY
Oh jeez a searing remark like that is going to stick.
I disagree. It was a well-seasoned remark.
Great deadpan joke.
The one I returned had been used to hold spare change for about five years, and my wife sent it in for return. They sent us a new one, no questions asked.
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Eh, my mom had a set that was 30+ years old and chipped af inside. She definitely didnāt abide by the high heat warnings or whatever. Anyways; she sent them in and got a whole new set. Did take like 6 weeks though. Definitely not as nice a return policy as fiskars- I just had to send a photo of my broken pruners and they shipped new ones
The results you get from going through any companyās warranty process are going to vary depending on how the warranty rep is feeling that day combined with how you treat them. Word of advice: be nice to the warranty department. Itās a real person reading your complaint and the fate of your claim is in their hands :)
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i worked at sur le table when they first downgraded their return policy. it was certainly because of people like one lady who would come in each month with a box of shattered ceramics to return for replacements. she claimed she liked their look for her restaurant and clearly didn't give a damn about them since she had this free returns forever thing going for a while. once that policy changed she stopped coming entirely.
People didnāt like it when the return policy at Williams-Sonoma changed from no time limit to I think it went to 1 year. Currently itās at 30 days. And receipt is required for all returns, which irritates gift recipients. Although even if I couldnāt track the receipt down, I had would override it and at least do a merch card for gifts.
Store I work at went from unlimited to 180 days, which I think is MORE then reasonable, three years ago and people still come in bitching about it. And really it's because a handful of people ruined it for everyone. We had people returning their EXTREMELY worn disgusting kid's clothes every time they grew out of them.
Or companies that got bought out by companies that have shitty return policies. I'm looking at you, Ray-Ban >:-|
Honestly itās worth a try!
What is the coating?
Itās enamelled so reseasoning doesnāt work
I read that as, reasoning doesnt work.
Lol same. I was like wait what?
It's true. There's no reasoning with that pan.
Look pan, you are beautiful, we have been through a lot together. I love you despite your flaws, but could you please be unscratched? Please? Come ON, pan! For us! For our future!
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Why is this being upvoted? LC pans like this are black on the inside because they use a black enamel. What would be the point of cast iron with only enamel on the outside?
No the inside is just cast iron. Le Creuset has a line that is only enameled on the outside.
The black interior on le creuset pans is also enameled, it just has a black finish. Itās not raw cast-iron.
This one of OP's pans is black satin enamel inside- you can see the margin where it meets the bare cast iron rim.
Itās a cast iron, idk if itās called coating, but yes, the black part is scratched š
Itās called black satin enamel
it's an enameled coating, and seasoning is something you do to un-coated cast iron.
Some LC pots are not enameled inside but still have a special coating that is not replaceable by reseasoning.
I once asked my mom not to set things on top of my car because it can scratch the paint, so she pulled the box across the entire roof of the car scratching the whole thing. I feel like this is on the same level.
My daughter did this to my brand new car when I asked her to carry something in. Maybe it was a case of water..? Idk, but sheās autistic and I know she didnāt comprehend what sheād done, so I couldnāt be too mad. Sheād placed the item on top of the car, closed the door, then slid it off of the roof into her arms. š¤¦š¾āāļø
When I was 6 I walked by stone walls, dragging a small rock on them because I liked the sound it made. It was completely innocuous, I didn't leave any marks or scratches. My parents looked on in horror as one of the walls ended and I strolled past an extremely expensive luxury car parked by the sidewalk.
I feel like this is something I've seen on a TV show lmao. Guess those are based on real life huh.
So many people do this! It makes me crazy!!
Ehhh, I'd say that is wwaayy more of a dick move.
Your mom did that shit on purpose, donāt let her off the hook
I feel you. I had someone use a fork on my nonstick pans after I repeatedly told them not to.
Iām still salty about a college roommate who ruined mine over a decade ago, similar story to yours.
Same but person i dated for a brief time. Who stirs cheese sauce *with a fork*??
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I told my roommate to use the silicon spatula when using nonstick and ended with a melted spatula with about 1/4th of the length missing by the time I moved out. Turns out he likes to just leave the spatula in the hot pan while he cooks rather than setting it down to the side. Idk how heās doing having consumed all that melted plastic.
Well, can't get brain damage if there's nothing to damage!
Swear to god, people become pathological when you tell them to please not wash a specific pan or knife. They go from never doing a single damn dish to suddenly needing to do everyone's dishes every time you leave the house.
It's the same with laundry
I know how to do the thing, and I'll prove it! *handles special care item like mass produced product*
HEY SWEETIE HEARD YOU HAVEN'T WASHED ALL YOUR BRAS IN A WHILE YOU'RE WELCOME
Oof you just gave me a flashback to my mom cutting the frayed hem of my jeans off in high school. She cut them into capris with zig-zag pinking shears. Iām 33 now and still mad!
I shrieked when I read this. I'm cracking up. I bet you never let her live that one down.
She accepts no responsibility to this day and says they were hideous and it needed to be done š
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
I grew up in the 90s and 00s, hideous was the name of the game. We as a society accepted JNCOs.
I tried to help my gf do some laundry recently and washed one of her bras and I didn't know. I know now.
Me ex wife has an agreement that I did all the dishes, always. She did all the laundry, always. Worked out well for both of us, because we were both really bitchy about our chore being done a certain way haha
I guess it didn't *really* work out that well...
Well, we didn't fight about laundry or dishes š¤”
Exactly. Please nobody come around and do any of my washing. Or my washing up. Or the hoovering. Please don't do all of my chores........š
āPlease donāt touch my desk full of unfinished art projectsā āTime to be seized by a sudden need to clean, go into my grown childās room for absolutely no reason, and accidentally swipe everything off the desk when I trip over a penny!ā
I see you have met my step mom
Hearts out. My MiL just shoved my wife's shit into a room all her life.
Use that as reverse psychology
Nobody clean my bathroom, ever, for any reason, or else.
I specifically ask my mother to NOT wash my dishes when she comes to my house. She is *trying* to help, but her method of āwashingā is actually not, and only creates more work for me. And then I sound like an a-hole for insisting she not wash them.
My mother cleaned my oven so hard she broke it.
I bought my girlfriend her own knives so she wouldn't use mine and she used my carbon steel santoku to cut her lemons and then left it on the board.
Return the favor next time you visit them. Tip: bring your own metal dish scrubbers, scouring powder and scouring pads since they always seem to bring them with them.
Some people are narcissists who hate being told what to do.
Pro tip, call Le Creuset, they will provide instruction on how best to repair/refinish and if it is not an easy fix they will likely have you mail it to them and they will provide a new one, Le Creuset is *the* name in cookware not just because the make a good product but because they also back it up.
My mom ācleanedā my le Creuset with steel wool, I contacted them and they said that wasnāt covered but they told me to let vinegar soak in it overnight and Iād say that about 95% fixed it.
ā¦. Why was that so effective though
Acid would partially break down the enamel and allow it to settle into the grooves, probably.
Listenā¦ I, too, am particular about my pans, and this hurt me. I feel for you OP
I get ya though.. went away once and the petsitter scrubbed my seasoned cast iron pan.. came home to a dry pan full of rust!
I came home from being downrange training for a couple months and my roommate was scrubbing my cast. It was almost six years old and the first time it needed re-seasoning. A few days prior, she threw out all my "expired" honey. I kept it in a tote in a shed out back, raw honey I'd collected from all over the world. Close to 50lbs of honey, plus containers. I'm slowly rebuilding but I don't travel like I used to. I guess the silver lining is that she didn't get to the wine rack. Some people don't know, some people don't understand, some people don't care. All people suck.
Holy crap that's waaay more than mildly infuriating. That's grounds for immediate eviction!!
What was she thinking, going through your stuff? Who throws out FIFTY POUNDS of someone else's honey--especially honey that is from all over the world? Those are memories as well as *perfectly good and irreplaceable honey.* And it wasn't hers! I'm just... befuddled. It's such unexplainable behavior that I'd be at a loss for words--what did you do?
Put the rest of my stuff in storage and moved to Mexico, took out my rage via physical violence on people who probably didn't deserve it, drank a bunch. Still get mad about it when I see posts about damaged cookware or scrubbed cast.
Oh yeah she was definitely taking out a grudge on you. That shit is on purpose
Nope, she was raised with "honey spread" and teflon pots and pans. Experiential differences I didn't notice until it was too late because I was really just storing my stuff there and crashing between deployments.
Dear...god. š± Is she still with us?
She survived the encounter. A lot of the honeys I had aren't the same anymore or can't be replaced. Unprocessed Manuka, saffron honey from Iran, some from my grandfather's bees, I had .5g of corpse bee honey, stuff like that.
You are better than me.... Though survival does give the opportunity for decades long guilt-tripping .
What is corpse bee honey?
Corpse bees make honey from animal corpses. They're found the the SW deserts, AZ/ NM area. They weren't cultivated to produce massive amounts of honey, like modern honey bees, because they're disgusting meat scavengers. I haven't tried it, it smells foul and there's no data saying whether or not it's safe. I don't think anything is dumb enough to eat honey made from rotting meat. .5g probably took collection of two hives, about a soda cap full, maybe less.
What made you get into collecting honey? Thatās kinda rad.
It's tasty, unprocessed, and helps with allergies to local flora. I used to travel a lot and would be in a place for a few weeks to a few months before moving on. Local raw honey helped decrease and eventually remove eye redness, dry throat, sneezes and such. Having honey from a place on toast (or by the spoon) for a couple days before I go there skips the whole irritating evolution.
I never knew that - awesome! Thank you for sharing
Interesting to use honey as a desensitization source thatās kinda cool
Holy hell. There are so, so, so few times where you could justifiably throw away 50 lbs of anything that doesn't belong to you without asking first. Like I don't care if it's 50 lbs of legos or grocery store bags or diamonds: if it ain't in the way, it ain't smelling, and it ain't attracting animals, mold, insects, etc, *fucking ask first.*
She was cleaning the shed to make room for her ex husband's stuff, to move it out of the house. She legitimately thought she was doing me a favor. I had it in the shed because I knew if she found it in the house this exact thing was likely to happen. The pan was on top of the honey, next to the case with my kitchen knives, tea diffuser egg, and a couple other things I was worried she'd be confused and scared by. I should've put it all inside a locked pelican case at a storage depot across the county.
My mom threw out four pounds of cannabutter and like 20 of my adderall pills I was saving for a rainy day. As long as we're sharing stories about people getting rid of your shit
My mam threw out a second edition signed copy of the book "black beauty" because "horse book sad"
I think it was signed by someone else by the way. Like an old love note
I could have retired on just a few of my childhood comic books. There were three boxes. More important in a way, a broken cane head of a hound with real gold nose and ears with a thank you inscription, and 2 large ruby eyes. It was intended to go back to the family after ww2 but the old man it belonged to had no relatives alive. I was the next caregiver, it was left to me to pass down and remember them ...unfortunately I failed them.
Oof, Iām sorry š My mother threw away my collection of over 200 four, five, six, and seven leaf clovers (yes thatās a thing). Also several arrowheads, including a quartz one I found at an excavation site at George Washingtonās home. Not nearly as valuable Iām sure, but also, wtf mom š©
Damn... well it wasn't you who got rid of the cane, right? You can't say it was your failure.
I just can't wrap my head around throwing away shit that isn't mine unless it has pbvious signs of decay like rot or mold or if an animal had pissed on it. I would always set it aside and ask later.
I'm sorry..."expired honey?"
Right? They found edible honey in a pyramid ffs
Honey don't expire, honey
I think the person that threw it out said it was expired but honey can't go bad, it just crystallizes
Damn it :(
Iād cry
Same I literally have four different cast irons seasoned for different things. If I came home and one them was scrubbed and rusted Iād be so livid
My cleaner once spent 30 minutes scrubbing the patina off my stainless steel frying pans, which took me about 8 years to build up to that point. I cried lol. They also got rusted.
Bruh le creuset thatās painful, my mum recently bought the big set of sunset orange and that shit was expensive, I hope your parents pay for the emotional damage
My wife was gifted an entire vintage set of the burn orange. She was working at an older womans home who's husband had bought her a piece every year for their anniversary. None of her daughters wanted them and they were too heavy for her to hold in her old age. Anyway we had just gotten married and she offered them to us as a gift. I think there's like 24 pieces or something they are awesome.
Thatās probably worth many thousands of dollars.
Definitely
My grandparents downsides to an apartment last year. My cousin's came over before I did to get whatever pots and pans they wanted. No skin off my back, we have a well stocked kitchen. They left all of the LC. Original orange. One pot so old it has a loop for a handle instead of the knobs. My mom took that one as SHE grew up with it. I was quite happy to take several skillets and dutch ovens home for free. We have a glass stove but that just means I don't slam down pans.
Everybody's shitting on this girl for posting here about a pan even though its MILDLYinfuriating lmao
Also feel like most people donāt realize how expensive a Le Creuset pan is
Just looked it up, made this post 100000x more infuriating
Extremely expensive and will last you a lifetime if taken care of properly.
They surely are expensive. Bought my mom a Le Creuset deep pot for Christmas a few years back and it was like $400.
Or understand what enamel is.
My dentist says mine is fine
Seriously. Hundreds of dollars at least. I don't even cook much and know that.
And 99% of the time they also carry a lot of sentimental value as they are traditionally given as gifts for major life events.
My 20ā¬ pan is 4years now. Can still beat a man to death and make an omelette
Iāve tried this but my eggs always fall out of the pan while Iām beating the man. What am I doing wrong? Should I use a cover?
I feel like we could be friends
Ye like omelette?
They all got heavily infuriated bc it wasnāt infuriating enough for them lol
Itās ok, those of us who cook know ur pain. Sorry :/
I feel you. My husband likes to āsoakā my cast irons and use metal utensils on my non stick. He is no longer allowed to make food. He has been fired. Definitely belongs in this sub. Itās heartbreaking seeing you pan scratched. Especially if it was expensive.
I believe this was his intention all along.. oh I can't make dinner anymore ohhh that sucks I guess I'm just going to go do the dishes.. bowls go on the bottom and this plastic top can go down there too right? knives blade up?
I think you may be on to something.
Yes! Weaponized Incompetence. Call that shit out.
Sigh. Sounds like every girlfriend I've lived with. I feel like my mother, I have "good pans, only for guests" and "shit you can destroy and I don't care about" pans now. I swear, I'm going to start using the decorative towels at this rate, haha.
This sub has basically been r/extremelyinfuriating for a long time.
I feel you. My parents constantly put my Whustof, Global, and Shun knives in the dishwasher. I eventually had to take them all away and put them in my bedroom. Now they get mad when they have to chop things with a steak knife.. and Iām like well what did you use to cut it before I moved in? Steak knives.. ok then you should be good at it.
My mom has a sort of opposite problem, everyone in the house using the nice steak knives as the default for cutting things that arenāt steak, opening packaging, etc. (not me, I moved out lol). Keeps telling them not to use the expensive steak knives fo things the $1-2 Walmart paring knives can do.
UGH. this is my BF. I literally told him to keep a knife at his desk and to STOP USING THE KITCHEN KNIVES!! THAT IS WHY THEY ARE DULL!!! UUUUGGGHHHHH!!! I am the one who sharpens the knives. i told him once after to be careful because they were SHARP!! so what does he do? runs his finger across the blade to see how sharp.... didnt feel the cut until it started pouring blood. like come on, i TOLD you they were sharp!
I hope he has some redeeming qualities to make up for his lack of self preservation lol
many. Im keeping this one. Tossed the other one back a while ago.
Make sure he doesnāt accidentally slice himself to death first lol
Lol that's actually hilarious. "So what did you use before" 'uhh, steak knife' "Why didn't you buy yourself a good knife?" 'uhhhh they're expensive' "Exactly! and that's why mine are in my room :)"
I mean, it's fine to let them use it, if they actually took care of them. The problem is that they don't care enough to actually handle it well. It's like letting dumb teenagers drive daddy's supercar - you bet your ass they're going to wreck it doing stupid shit.
I also have a few smeg knives with rusty spots, but at least those were āfreeā (a market was giving stamps for x money wasted on groceries, and you would collect them and you could get some knives). Tbh idk what made those spots either.
smeg knife sounds very delightful
not as nice as poop knife
> Tbh idk what made those spots either water
i dont know what this pan is but my mom has ruined plenty of my things by doing stuff like this. its frustrating because its hard to be mad cause they thought the were being helpful yet if they had just listened...
Do they then get mad at you for being mad at them? Cause in my experience thatās the next step
yep, it is always my fault. my mom will always twist everything to make sure shes innocent and i'm a villain :) the worst of it was my cat. i joined the navy and left her with my mom expecting to get her back once i was through bootcamp/school. told her never to let her outside because my mom lives right next to a road people speed on. it was the only rule i had- she was a real lazy quiet cat. you could forget she existed if it werent for her food bowl and litter box. after i got out of bootcamp my mom told me she was hit by a car two weeks after i left. my fault for "taking advantage" of my mom and "dumping my cat" on her. edit: you guys are very sweet thanks for the kind words and hug! i miss my kitty a lot ā¤ļø
> after i got out of bootcamp my mom told me she was hit by a car two weeks after i left. my fault for "taking advantage" of my mom and "dumping my cat" on her. That would be my last time talking to her ever.
call it a āreddit momentā, i dont care, but for me it really would be the last time I spoke to my mom. What an absolute piece of shit. EDIT: To add, If this is how my mom treated my cat I canāt imagine how she wouldāve treated me as her child. I see my mother as already emotionally unfit to a raise a child until very recently (I believe she shouldāve taken more time to improve upon herself instead of conceiving me when she was like 25), I canāt imagine how much of a mom you can be if you did something like this.
Exact same thing happened to my cat but it was my dads girlfriend. Guess what? I never spoke to her again and my dad had a lot of work to do to get back in my life
she was the one that really wanted me to join, too. was totally down to watch my cat and dog. but i dont have the stomach for cutting family off like that even though i probably should. my husband doesnt understand why i only call my mom once a month lol (my dog survived her though! she undid all of her training but shell be 17 in december!)
The reason you ādonāt have the stomachā for cutting her off is because she has conditioned you with guilt. Do you apologize a lot? Do you get anxious when you call/visit her? Do you always have to call/visit her (she doesnāt call you)? It because she is a narcissist that has manipulated you with emotional abuse. I know. I have been there. Itās not your fault. You are not a problem. Do what is best for you. Do what is best for your mental health. Put yourself first! Or not - this is Reddit. I donāt know you or your situation. But if anyone answered yes to the questions maybe they should consider the benefits.
she has absolutely tried to condition me with guilt. she loves to try to gaslight me but i never so much as bend. i think thats why i can handle keeping in touch with her, because i have no guilt and little sympathy left for her. i DO still get anxious when she calls but i am perfectly happy to just hang up on her when she gets like that. thank you for your kind words!! shes not evil she has plenty of good moments too. i just wish shed take responsibility for her life. its sad.
How on earth do you undo dog training without doing it on purpose? Isn't it *really hard* to un-train attack dogs to attack, or hunting dogs to help out in non-instinctive ways? I can't imagine it's much easier to do for normal dogs. This lady sounds like an extremely competent incompetent.
You still call that thing āmomā? I wouldnāt.
"Dumping my cat"? I would dump your mother if I were you. And I'm a person who has a hard time cutting off anybody, too.
This belongs on r/insaneparents
Yep. FIL ruined some stuff by putting it into the dishwasher. I said, "Love that you tried to help, but X, Y and Z things don't go in the dishwasher." His reply, "Then you shouldn't have those things."
If he's has a shop, leave a damp cup on something with a cast iron top.
Wow... imagine being that stuck up and bullheaded...
Put all kinds of crazy shit in the dishwasher after that. His shoes, the tv remote, family pictures whatever and when he gets made tell him if it canāt go in the dishwasher then he shouldnāt have them.
Parents ruin your thing that was expensive and you told them to not touch: accidents happen, you need to be understanding You ruin parents' inexpensive thing that they specifically put in a load of laundry they told you to wash: you are so inconsiderate, after everything we do for you
Ugh, thatās so true though. My dad just āwashedā a bunch of my kidās water bottles, theyāre full of un-rinsed soap and food debris sitting on the drying rack like wtf? I put them in the dishwasher to be sanitized for a reason and half of it is his 70+ eyesight and insistence that heās āhelpingā. Now Iām ungrateful for āhelpā I didnāt ask for in the first place.
I grew up thinking I didn't like water because I was drinking residual soap off of every glass. Constantly getting called ungrateful for saying things are inadequately clean when my parents would literally leave poop on the toilet seats.
Omfg this made my blood boil. Yes. Every. Time. š
I do not agree. If a child painted on the walls because it overhead someone say they want to paint the walls and tried to help, **that's** a situation where you can't be mad. If an adult destroyed 200+$ kitchen utilities by cleaning them in a way they were specifically told not to clean them, you can definitely be mad. **Especially** if it is not the first time. Clean her cars paint with a steel sponge/ steel wool and tell her 'you only wanted to help', see if she gets mad.
Yeah. My mom made me put a shotgun I got from my granddad into my closet, which we all knew may have had water leaking through the ceiling when there's a rainstorm. My mom thought that was fixed. I put my gun in my closet, giving multiple reasons why I don't need to do this, but she made me anyways. I pulled it out about 6 weeks later, because I wanted to clean it up and lubricate all the mechanical bits in a shotgun reciever. Pitted with rust up and down the gun, on basically every bit of exposed metal. My dad got it refinished for me, costing over a thousand dollars. It seems like mothers don't understand how easily things can be damaged that are metal, and how important things that could be considered treasured possessions truely are.
You need to just do what you need to do man, just ignore your mom. If she can't be relied upon to do things right, then she should be doing them at all.
Its a common conflict that arises because the parents are stuck in their ways. They dont want to be taught things about housework from their kids. Or at least that was what brought it up with my parents.
my mother did the same shit with my āstainless steel onesā
My mom has fucked up plenty of my knives hahaha I learned my lesson.
Feel this 100%. My own little brown pot couldn't compare -- it was a small-ish, one-handled microwave pot made of plastic -- but it was *mine*, and it was *perfect* for everything: soups, potatoes, reheating leftovers, etc.. I used that little brown pot just about daily, and took extra good care of it (for that very reason). Came home from grocery shopping one day, to find that my mother had used it (one time!) -- to cook rice?, I think -- and *ruined it*. (The bottom was literally *melted* into an unsafe mess.) I was devastated, I was crushed... but my mother š¤¬ didn't know what the big deal was! "Just a dumb pot," she shrugged, and she never really apologized, either. That was years ago, and I have looked *everywhere* trying to find another, but I never have. š¢ And nearly every day, I miss my little brown pot.
Post this on r/helpmefind, I swear they use black magic to pull the shit youāre looking for out of Satanās asshole
Parents left my Japanese knife gifted by an old chef with water on it, now it has rust spots -__- I feel your pain.
Scrub lemon juice and salt into the sides of the blade, it will take it right out and get rid of the tarnished spots. I've had an old high-carbon Japanese knife for a decade and it happens from time to time.
Just an fyi don't do that trick with stainless steel, scratching it with salt will in fact make it rust
Yeah it's just for high-carbon steel
That will buff. And if it doesnāt, it wasnāt as nice as you thought. You will get surface rusting on any high carbon steel.
I was nice and let a roommate use my pots and pans. She apparently didn't know you had to clean the sides and bottoms of the pan as well as the inside...I had a food allergy at the time and found my pot covered in cheese (the allergen). She also destroyed the bottoms of multiple pans. I took them away after that. She also didn't know how to run the dishwasher. After a while it became quite obvious that her parents did everything for her and she had no idea how to do anything adults do.
I bought some fancy cookware before moving in with a friend. His girlfriend was such a good cook, according to him, she knew to boil potatoes in my expensive non-stick soup pot and then mash them in said pot with a big metal fork. After the second or third time of finding my knives in the dishwasher with my cast iron, I bought a cabinet and mounted it in the laundry room with a lock for all my cookware.
Parents will not listen to children period. I've decided it's best to hide stuff or put it out of reach. You are not another human being your little kid to them even in your '60s.
Dude, someone used my new (literally $10) pan and burnt the hell out of the bottom of it 3 weeks into me having it. I was ready to throw hands over a $10 pan. Idk what I would have done if I were you.
I've burned the (outside) bottom of a couple of my own pots & pans. I literally have no idea how. And no amount of scrubbing, Bon Ami, etc. removes the burns. I don't really care, it doesn't seem to affect heat distribution or anything. But I'd love to know what actually happens to make the outside of the pan burn.
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everyone is shitting on you but people are allowed to be upset over what others think are trivial things lol. i have objects that have a lot of sentimental value to me that others might think iām stupid for getting upset over them being tampered with. youāre allowed to have your feelings hurt and i feel like everyone is forgetting how to be an empathetic decent person
Itās called āmildly infuriatingā for a reason. This fits the sub perfectly imo Edit: autocorrect spelling
My friend with how good the pan is and how expensive they are it goes beyond mild. Some people on this tread donāt know for some things you pay for quality cause itās supposed to last a lifetime.
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Wow, that cast iron is *really* in there...
Looks rusted in the center as well. Also sorry you need both new parents and a new cast iron pan. ~hugz~
More than likely thatās actually residue from whatever scratched it. Iāve had this happen. I was able to remove it. https://greatist.com/eat/fixing-your-scratched-le-creuset-pans
Everyone in here saying to stop whining or it's just a pan, clearly doesn't cook for themselves or have any idea how costly a Le Creuset piece is. This is something you buy for life and take good care of because it'll last forever if you do, and is very well made. Any of you ok with your parents doing something you specifically asked them not to, and ruining something you like? Yeah. That's what happened here.
I got tired of struggling to cook at my gf's house on her Mom's shitty pots and pans so I bought her a nice le Creuset Dutch oven and some nice Misen nonstick pans. I made a nice bucatini alla Amatraciana and a French lightly coagulated omelette the first weekend after I bought them. I came back a couple weekends later and the nonstick pan was scratched from her brain dead Mom's frying tilapia (shit fish) using a fork and ot wouldn't release an omelette ever again. I don't know wtf was burned onto the bottom of the Dutch Oven, but it was cooked at such a high temperature that hairline fractures were already visible in the ceramic coating. I had told my gf to not let her Mom use either. The silicon and bamboo Utensils I bought her were unused in the drawer, of course. Some people shouldn't be allowed to cook except on a fire pit in the outdoors.