I'm more known as anal-retentive-dishwasher-loader.

Oh my... where to begin. Does folding the tops of open snack bags (or rice/grains/beans/cereal/etc.) into a sort of origami-like triangle and fastening with a binder clip count? (yes. yes, it does)

At least I don't impose my OCD regimen onto my entire family. However, my husband has started to do it too.

Frankly, I'm so territorial about my kitchen and where things go (we have ZERO storage space) that I'm completely AR about everything. I have terrible rules about everything from my cast iron cookware to my good knives. I feel bad for my family. I'm a complete Nazi about it.

Oh how I miss Phil Hartman.

Haha! I'm an AR cupboard stacker. I, too, have a tiny kitchen, so every ounce of space has to be utilized to get everything in the cupboards! My poor boyfriend. I never yell at him, but I occasionally tell him what he's doing "wrong" and redo things he's already done. Luckily, I am the cook, so the kitchen is my domain.

We also don't have a dishwasher and only a single farmhouse sink. The boy does dishes willingly, but he's not as thorough as I am, so I get anal about dishes, too. Lol... Never thought about this until I read the post!

I'm more like the Cajun chef. My kitchen looks like a bomb went off in it after I'm done.

One thing I do that's a bit anal retentive is constantly wash my hands, but that's a good thing.

My SO is definitely oppressed when it comes to cooking and general cleaning procedures. I won't let him load the dishwasher, I criticize his cooking techniques, and although I praise him when he does any spontaneous cleaning, I secretly cringe because I know that there are details he missed. It's a problem which is only solved by the fact that he is now working full time and I'm working part time which makes me the default cleaning and cooking person. I worry every day about the fact that this puts me in the traditional "homemaker" role, but it does generally work out better.

Pasta pot on back right burner, rice pot on left back burner - always. Hubby must comply!

I so miss Phill Hartman too... What a Talent!!

I bake a lot... and I too am very careful about measuring everything exactly!! I always have to take a straight edge to my measuring spoons.

Phil Hartman! I totally thought about his AR Chef character after I baked with my 5-yr-old niece and instructed her to level off ingredients in measuring cups and spoons, cautioned her on not spilling, and insisted on scraping the bowl down. Boy, I'm going to have work on that if I want the poor girl to ever get in the kitchen with me again.

But yes, I am known to whip out a ruler in the kitchen! I just love the look of everything all evenly portioned and lined up. Especially satisfying when baking...like little soldiers.

Woe be to the person who sticks my wooden handled knives in the dishwasher! I only get uptight about my utensils being treated nicely, don't put anything with wood in it's makeup in the dishwasher, do not stack other dishes on top of my non-stick skillet, do not put my cast iron in the sink, and covers get stored with the pan they go on not in some other cupboard where I can't find them.

I'll be so happy when I have a kitchen to myself and no longer have to share.