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Silas
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6848 Location: Staffordshire
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 10 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Behemoth wrote: |
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Well what you do is this;
First, make sure the plates and dishes etc are scraped properly, this does help keep the water clean. Stack you bowl before putting the water in.I always put the cutlery at the bottom of the bowl, followed by plates, dishes etc. Squirt some washing up liquid in the bowl and some onto the sponge-scourer that you are going to use and let the water run hot before starting to fill bowl, as the water in filling the bowl, use it direct from the tap to clean thhenon-greasy stuff, glasses, cups saucers and a very quick scour rond with the spongything under the tap as you fill the bowl does this fine. Then its time for the dishes, plates etc, then the pots and pans and finally, half empty the bowl and do the cutlery. Simple and quick. |
If I was overly botherd about this I'd have to say I'd have to stop half way through to dry and clear the draining board as I couldn't accomodate the crockery glassware and cooking utensils and pans on the drainer at the same time. By which time the water would probably have cooled and not be much help with the pans, roasting dish etc. |
If I'm doing it on my own I very often have to stop two or three times to dry the washed dishes, never been a problem though. |
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Jenna
Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 263 Location: Away with the fairies
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 10 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting. We do have a dish washer, but we don't use it for washing up. It's a small one, and it is used for batches of jars (to recycle for jam or similar) or bottles (for wine), where you can't get your hand in very efficiently and you don't want your jam tasting of mustard or something because you haven't made a suitable job of washing by hand. Our plumbing is 'interesting', so the DW drains into a bucket, and takes probably 25l of water and an hour to run. Washing up takes a 1.5l kettle of boiling water and about the same of cold, and the thing that increases the time for us is lack of draining space. If He washes and I dry and put away, we can get a day's worth done in about 15 mins (only 2 of us). We have a system which involves soaking todays most minging pans with the end of todays washing up water and an extra 'squirt', and washing them up at the end of tomorrows washing up. (The less filthy among you would probably not get along with a system like this - but whatever we're cooking in them tomorrow will be hot enough to kill any creatures enjoying a holiday in my old washing up water). Occasionally, we are profligate and wasteful and boil an extra kettle to do the pans at the end . Still less water and leccy than the DW, and I can't be faffed waiting an hour for the DW to finish before I can have my stuff back! I don't feel defensive about having it though, and we do put stuff through it every once in a while (good for getting tea stains out of cups!) if we are feeling particularly idle! |
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Mrs R
Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 7202
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Silas
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6848 Location: Staffordshire
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Mrs R
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Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 23956 Location: under some rain.
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 31902 Location: York
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Silas
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6848 Location: Staffordshire
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8579 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 31902 Location: York
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Silas
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6848 Location: Staffordshire
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Jenna
Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 263 Location: Away with the fairies
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8579 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 31902 Location: York
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 10 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Silas wrote: |
Rob, it's no use telling me is doesnt work , I've been doing it for 40 years - it works. |
I'm not telling you it doesn't work, I found for myself that it doesn't work, and just telling me you've been doing it for 40 years isn't going to make it work either. I'm not particularly interest whether you've been doing it 40 years or just made it up for the purposes of this thread, what I'm interested in is what makes it different for you. I'm left to assume that the place is generally warmer so that the pots are not cold when you wash up? I use water that is boiling when it goes in and then add cold until I can safely use it, but with certain items (like plates) I add it as I go along to de-grease each plate with a bit of boiling.
I'm also thinking that, perhaps, you have a bigger bowl and therefore half a bowl of water might be more than I am thinking of. I certainly do it in smaller batches to keep the water hot and clean, particularly with animal fats (including fish). |
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 31902 Location: York
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