Two bachelors were talking when the conversation went to cooking. “I got a cookbook once,” said the first, “but I could never do anything with it.”
“Too much fancy cooking?” asked the second.
“You said it.” Replied the first guy, “Every one of the recipes began the same way, ‘Take a clean dish and…'”
The bachelors would have done a lot better to invest in disposable cooking methods. If you don’t like scrubbing a baking pan, line it with aluminum foil before baking or just use a disposable aluminum pan and throw the whole thing in the recycle bin when done.
Line the bottom of stove pans and ovens with foil. It’s a lot quicker than scrubbing and scraping.
The Old Testament laws had a lot to say about cleanliness, long before germs were ever thought of by man. Just as with those bachelors, it probably seemed like a waste of time to some people. But the health benefits of cleanliness, definitely redeemed the time.
Rick Grubbs is best known as the host of “Redeeming the Time,” a one-minute radio program featured on hundreds of radio outlets around the world. He has spoken thousands of times on Biblical time management in all 50 states and 26 other countries. He is the author of the book “Morning Momentum: God’s plan for launching an unstoppable day”. He and his wife Carrie live in Salisbury NC with several of their 12 children.
