For those poor sods like me who haven’t got or seldom use a dishwasher: when the chore’s done I swish around the bowl for loose bits, feel nowt and empty the bowl down the sink to find a spoon or similar in the sink. Often - I mean probably half the time. My theory is water eddy’s are created that move small objects away from the source - but I could be full of b***.
Theories welcome, or is it just me?
It’s you!
[opens can of worms...]
What you should do, is put the washing up liquid on the sponge and leave the water clear. Better for rinsing and no hidden spoons. The bastards can’t hide from me!
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Never use a bowl.
poor technique.
go in an S shape from top to bottom, sweeping left to right all the way down and nothing will escape lol.
Does anybody else hate it when their partner puts every single sodding pot into the bowl?
You need space to swish things about a bit and maneuver the scouring sponge around what ever you're washing.
I buy my wife one pair of Marigold gloves each month, so that she can wash up without burning her hands in the hot water.
What's the idea behind using a bowl? Seems pointless to me. I just use the sink. Is it some ancient housewifery lore?
Surprised no-ones developed an ultrasonic sink, that would be useful.
Good to see I'm not the only person that washes dishes by hand. We've got a dishwasher but only being two of us, it would take two or three days to fill. Don't like the idea that I'm basically using the machine as a dirty plate/cutlery storage cupboard so I end up hand washing everything.
Paper plates and eat with your fingers. Job done
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I am having a nightmare and TZ-UK has become Mumsnet.
Washing up! what next? changing nappies? The best broom technique to reach under the wardrobe or the bed?
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
For me the hardest part of washing up is sorting out the dishes, scraping clean etc before you actually start. Still have to do this before putting in the dishwasher. And yes, like you, I think it would just become a days long storage facility for dirty plates and things.
OP.
Buy some swimming goggles and get your face in there. That way you will be below the layer of bubbles on the surface. Job done.
The grief I get for apparently not 'correctly' loading the dish washer, sheesh
Years back the answer would be - no idea, the Mrs does that chore. How times change.
I am the dishwasher elf in our house. The reason is that SWMBO stacks a dishwasher like a giraffe on roller skates would stack a pyramid of crystal whisky glasses! After much growling from me on the subject, she now keeps away from it.
Perhaps that was her cunning plan all along!
When you've finished just squeeze the f***ing sponge out! And perhaps put it back in it's spot. Is it really so difficult?
Washing dishes by hand is primitive and unhygienic. A dishwasher damn near sterilises everything whereas slopping about in a washing up bowl is just plain yuk.
Everyone buys a washing machine without blinking an eyelid but buying a dishwasher for some daft reason is regarded as a luxury which is plain weird.
Yeah the single biggest advance in reducing mortality rates was the invention of the dishwasher, before that people were dropping dead all the time after eating off hand-washed crockery.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Many many years ago on a food safety course, the trainer said to fill up the kettle and switch on before you start washing up. Then slowly pour boiling water over the stacked dishes etc and leave enough water in the kettle for a cup of coffee/tea.
You need to get a life it that’s all you have to start a thread. Get the Mrs to load the dishwasher and put your feet up, if you have not got a dishwasher then tell the Mrs to wash up, and put your feet up.
Anybody still dry dishes nowadays? We’ve a dishwasher but used to be part of my parents after dinner ritual.
Not as a rule no, I'd rather let evaporation and gravity do the work for me. But if theres loads of pots and pans etc like after Sunday lunch which are too much for the draining rack, I'll dry a few and put them away as I go.
It was part of my parents ritual also "you wash, I'll wipe". Oo-eerr missus.
Does the man always wipe (dry)?
I've told Mrs 'wheelie, that unless she lets me by a Rolex DSSD, Cameron version, I 'aint doin' the dishes. Never-ever.
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This
Plus all knives forks spoons on the right hand side only no other pots in the sink. Then start, never find any odd item.
However when on the rare occasion the Mrs washes up. Always a spoon or three in the empty sink. Tuts loudly ?
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My wife has habit of washing the dishes and just leaving the sink full of dirty water when she’s finished. What’s worse, when I let the water out there is always a load of cutlery left at the bottom.
When I do it, I do a proper job (please don’t tell her I said this)
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She shops, cooks, we eat and then I wash up, dishes are left to air dry, she got tired of me putting the dish drying cloth in the wash after using. I also dust and hoover on a Monday when she visits her dad to do his housework, I'm not asked to do much so I don't moan, it's a partnership but she does do the lions share.
We use a bowl in the summer months.
We collect the water that runs before it gets hot enough to wash up in and use it to water the plants in the garden.
M
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Round or square bowls?
I lived with someone who would routinely load the sink for washing up with wine glasses and razor sharp knives at the bottom and a Le Creuset cast iron pot as the crowning glory... 🙄