what i do: prep food on chopping board, at the end chuck all waste into bin.

You keep all the scrap on the chopping board?

Yeah, shove the scrap into the lower down section of the chopping board, put all the stuff to be cooked into a plastic box or straight into the pot.

You must either have a big chopping board or small amounts of food, then.

chopping board is average size i think, if it gets too much it goes into a plastic box/bowl and they can hold loads,

Comma !

I must confess that I do use a garbage bowl while cooking.

Who doesn't?

if it gets too much it goes into a plastic box/bowl and they can hold loads

And here we are, back at the start!

but it's not a garbage bowl,
it's for the food that's going to be cooked.

Same idea, though.

But I do wonder about your logic. Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the crap you don't wanna eat from your cutting area, rather than the other way around?

That is a philosophical conversation in which I can bring something to the table!

In short, it really depends on what kind of performance parameters you need when handling your refuse/garbage.

If you have someone that can help you while you're chopping, then it would be best to have concurrent collection.  However, if you're managing it all on your own, you'll generally be forced to use stop-the-world style collection.  In the second case, of course, do you want to stop-the-world to do cleanup regularly, or as infrequently as possible?

Man, I never knew there would be efficiency conversations in a cooking thread!

Same idea, though.

But I do wonder about your logic. Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the crap you don't wanna eat from your cutting area, rather than the other way around?

you do remove it, you push it down into the rubbishy bit.

You have a compartment or something?

(Animal explorer voice): shh shh, everyone. Let us sit back and watch these two glorious brits engage one another. Who knows what funny words we'll here, what silent letters will be pronounced, and how many u's can they fit into various words. If we're lucky, one will say aluminum!

 Were I an Englishman, I would have as a my name: Aluminum, Lieutenant Aluminum.

You mean aluminium?

I'm not that English.

did I spell it wrong? Firefox is supposed to figure those things out for me.

You have a compartment or something?

at the end of it it goes down, there's an area for it.

(Animal explorer voice): shh shh, everyone. Let us sit back and watch these two glorious brits engage one another. Who knows what funny words we'll here, what silent letters will be pronounced, and how many u's can they fit into various words. If we're lucky, one will say aluminum!

fuck yes.

You mean aluminium?

I'm not that English.

I say aluminium. Aluminum is just silly.

And pointless too, why on earth would someone want to take U's out of words? Does it really matter?

Efficiency. That's how we won the war for you pansies.

did I spell it wrong? Firefox is supposed to figure those things out for me.

There is no wrong, as far as I know. Aluminium (al-you-min-ee-um) has an extra i and hence an extra syllable, as well as the British u sound. Aluminum (aloo-min-um) rolls off the tongue way better.

You have a compartment or something?

at the end of it it goes down, there's an area for it.

A-ha! So you do use a garbage (or rubbish if you like) bowl, it's just attached to your cutting board.

And pointless too, why on earth would someone want to take U's out of words? Does it really matter?

There's no missing u in aluminum!

I guess.


Also, I think it was more about words like 'colour' and 'honour'.

Correct spelling is outdated.


But seriously, I read that as someone using a rubbish bin while cooking and as all like, wtf?