The rhythm of boiling water, the preparation of food - actions that are repeated several times a day on a routine basis. "On Routine" deals with reproductive work in the repetitive circularity of everyday structure. It captures everyday movements in a small communal kitchen and asks for moments of pause and encounter in our mundane routine. Thereby the limitations of a communal kitchen are rhythmicized and gradually removed from their place and objects of their origin. Where does everyday repetition become a mechanical routine? And where does the routine of reproductive work becomes a part of capitalist logic?