Is It Possible to Use Too Many Napkins & Dishes While Cooking?  YES!

by Shervin Saedinia

So Mr. Tony Chavira decided to come over and cook his world-famous chicken, refried beans, and rice the other night for me and a few friends.  As I am just that nice, I decided to casually help him out and point him in the right direction when it came to looking for things in my kitchen.  Little did I know that I would be a full-fledged emergency maid; I felt like one those staff members who has 5 minutes to convert the Lakers courtside design at the Staples Center to the Clippers design.   Or worse, for a Kings game.

I mean talk about a damn mess!  He had used pretty much every appliance I had in the kitchen and at some point, there were two MIXING bowls brewing on the stove.  And to top it off, Mr.  Chavira used more napkins than I thought was even humanly possible.  He must have gone through half the supply of Costco Napkins I bought today and at some point, he was even using a fistful of napkins as a potholder.  I mean come on, gimme a break!   The result: burned rice and a filthy, crumb-filled kitchen.  Was it worth it?  Absolutely YES.  The chicken was delicious…but I am a sucker for tasty food. What can I say?

Although Tony’s articles love to talk about how environmental he is, I was there when he not only wasted the napkins, but we wasted gallons of water cleaning up after him.  He is not the only person I have seen that has a tendency to be this wasteful.  Matter of fact, many of my friends are worse.  One of my best friends uses about 50 napkins whenever she eats.  Oh and get this, she asked me if she could have a tree hugger shirt.  My answer to her: “Hell no!!!”

This ties back to that blog where I wrote about my co-workers wasting materials as though they had an endless supply.  As a society, we don’t seem to realize how much we can recycle or conserve.  You’d think that something as simple as a recycling program could be applied to more to just cans, paper and glass bottles.  Waste Recycling News has a depressing article about how airlines only recycle 20% of stuff on the plane, when in fact they could be recycling closer to 75% right now.  You’d think this would be pretty straightforward since almost everything you use on a plane could be used more than once.  Plastic forks, cups, magazines, headphones, peanut and pretzel bags, lunch boxes and the plastic they wrap food in…  where do they think all of that waste goes?  Do they think about where all that waste goes?  Maybe they do, but they don’t care.

Much like Tony Chavira.

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