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Least favorite: loud mechanical noises - blenders, food processors, mixers.

Favorites are too many to list, but I have include the rhythmic "thwup-thwup-thwup" sound of chopping on a board or the low gurgle of something sitting at a nice early boil. Oh, and that hiss pouring liquid into a hot pan to deglaze. I could go on like this for an hour.

"Uh oh". :)

The silence of my finger being lacerated to the bone with an errant stroke of my chef's knife.

Blender noises are definitely annoying, but I think the worst is pots and pans clamoring in the cabinet or if they fall to the floor....LOUD and startling!

Hillary
Chew on That

Just the other day I had a small ceramic dipping dish fall through a gap in the dishwasher rack and shattered. I knew it was coming, and cringed before it even hit the travertine.

Of course, that was followed by a bunch of other unsuitable-for-publication unpleasant coming from my mouth.

The sound of something boiling over is always unpleasant, especially if it's something really hard to clean up, like milk.

Of course, that also is followed by those previously mentioned unpleasant sounds emitting from my mouth...

I also dislike the sound of blenders, mixers, food processors, etc., but I endure them by thinking of their yummy payoffs.

i'd have to say it's the all too frequent sound of my highly breakable plates, bowls, and glasses contacting the marble kitchen counters and floors at high speed.

or the voice of a guest informing me that he or she doesn't eat what i've just spent hours preparing.

Coffee-grinder. Not only does it disturb my sleep, hearing someone already up and grinding coffee for their morning cuppa while I'm abed makes me feel like a world-class slug.

Smoke detector for me. I live in a small apartment with no ventilation to speak of, so even searing a steak can set off the alarm. We are on constant alert in our kitchen. That piercing sound drives me nuts.

I live in Florida where some genius thought it was a good idea to put white tile in every #*#^@ kitchen. When you drop something fragile, you say goodbye to it halfway to the floor. The crash is deafening.

Smoke alarm definitely ranks up there.

I don't hear this in my kitchen because I would never do such a thing but the sound of someone using a defenseless knife on a glass cutting board. OMG, that's knife abuse.

I'm not a dish-breaker, so that sound is rare. Fingers crossed since I have now "bragged".

I do dislike the sound of a pot boiling over into burner. I know it's a mess to clean up. And....the smoke alarm when I sear at high heat for too long.